IF the planet fails to suffer any major earthquakes tomorrow it will prove that an Iranian cleric was talking bollocks when he said:
Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes.
Five boobies, all in a row
In a bid to prove what tosh Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi was spouting, an Indiana university student Jennifer McCreight has asked women around the world to flash a little cleavage tomorrow as a humorous test to disprove the mad old goat’s theory that immodest dress has the power to make the earth shake.
According to this report, she’s calling it “boobquake,” and has launched a Facebook group to boost support.
Its aim?
To help fight supernatural thinking and the oppression of women, just by showing your cleavage.
McCreight, a double major in genetics and evolution, was incredulous when she read what Sedighi had said.
By Friday, more than 105,000 Facebook members said they would partake in the experiment tomorrow.
In setting up the group, McCreight said:
I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own. Yes, the one usually reserved for a night on the town. I encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts. Or short shorts, if that’s your preferred form of immodesty. With the power of our scandalous bodies combined, we should surely produce an earthquake. If not, I’m sure Sedighi can come up with a rational explanation for why the ground didn’t rumble …
Sheikh al-Zindani
And now to another demented Muslim cleric – Yemen’s Sheik Adbul-Majid al-Zindani, who vowed yesterday vowed to gather a “million” signatures to protest a draft law banning child brides.
The issue of child brides in Yemen has attracted broad international attention, most recently when a 13-year-old girl bled to death earlier this month after her 23-year-old husband allegedly tied her down and forced her to have sex with him.
The posturing old buffoon, who claimed in 2008 to have found a cure for AIDS, said a ban on child brides:
Threatens our culture and society and spreads immorality.
His words follow another opponent of the ban, Sheik Mohammed Hamzi, who likes to dress like Aladdin.
Al-Zindani is Yemen’s most powerful Islamic scholar and believed by the US to be a spiritual mentor of Osama Bin Laden.
Speaking at a conference at Iman University in the Yemeni capital San’a, al-Zindani called on the dozens of radical clerics and Islamic law students in the crowd to opposed the draft law.
You have to gather a million signatures … that supports the demands of clerics. If the issue calls on us to gather a million protesters, we’ll organise it.
The practice of marrying young girls is widespread in Yemen, where a quarter of all females marry before they turn 15, according to a 2009 report by the country’s Ministry of Social Affairs.
In the country’s deeply tribal society, families prefer young brides because they are seen as more obedient and are expected to have more children. It is also difficult for poor families in impoverished Yemen to ignore bride-prices of hundreds of dollars.
In March, al-Zindani signed a religious decree that declared people who supported the ban on child brides to be apostates, a particularly severe charge in the deeply Muslim country.
Pressure from al-Zindani and other religious leaders have made the government reluctant to tackle the issue because they rely on their support to stay in power. A parliamentary committee was expected to make a final decision on the legislation this month, but that has now been delayed until May.
It is widely expected that the government will raise the marriage age to deflect international pressure, but will not enforce legislation. Impoverished Yemenis are widely expected to ignore the law.
Hat tip: BarrieJohn
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April 25th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Someone should tell this moron that just for men comes in lots of shades so you can match your own natural colour, unless of course he likes resembling an Orang Utan. Though I daresay Orang Utans are probably a bit more rational and treat their women better!
April 25th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
I don’t have any cleavage to flaunt so I can participate in this experiment, but I do live in one of the more godless parts of the world, Western Europe, where quakes are not very common, unlike Iran. Could someone please ask Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi to explain this phenomenon? According to his kind of logic, there shouldn’t be a building standing here.
April 25th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
With his comedy beard and jovial expression Al-Zindani looks like he’s doing a stand-up routine.
Difference is, when he speaks it’s a joke but none of it’s funny.
April 25th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Nice tits. Well done ladies. Let’s get back to reality.
April 25th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
The thing that alarms me most of all about this whole earthquake statement is that it has been supported by Ahmad Jannati, “longtime head of the ultra-conservative Guardian Council, which vets all laws and political candidates for office.” Ayatollah Jannati “told worshipers on Friday that while science cannot yet predict earthquakes, they can be spiritually prevented by repentance and prayer.”
http://www.blaghag.com/2010/04.....ports.html
Here is a schedule of some of Jen’s expected media coverage
http://www.blaghag.com/2010/04.....d-cnn.html
April 25th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
I wouldn’t describe those clerics as ‘buffoons’,those mad mullahs are just plain sinister.How can anyone be an ‘Islamic scholar’ anyway, the term is a complete oxymoron?
April 26th, 2010 at 12:17 am
I met an Islamic scholar once. His father was a technicoloured invisible man, and his mother was a loud-mouthed corpse.
April 26th, 2010 at 1:54 am
Unfortunately, with more than 4000 earthquakes happening per year (most of them very small), there will almost certainly be one somewhere in the world during Boobquake for this nutter to point to as vindicating his assertion. Nevertheless, I support the ladies in their endeavours and suggest it be a weekly (daily?) event.
April 26th, 2010 at 2:34 am
Men can participate too. I’m sure you can find a way to erode the strict moral code of sacred texts somehow.
April 26th, 2010 at 4:01 am
The mad mullah may not be so mad at all. The sneaky bastard got a lot of women to flash their cleavage…I wish I had thought of it.
April 26th, 2010 at 5:01 am
Apostates are supposed to be killed, so, all good muslims should murder anyone who opposes child brides. Yeah, sure.
Keep pushing these dumbasses. The more they squawk the stupider they make themselves look. That’s the weakness of extemeists, give them enough rope and they always hang themselves. Jen’s idea is the best–just keep mocking them, they’ll do the rest.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Was it Adolf Hitler who said: “I’d like to go around in the nude, but I haven’t got the balls?” Anyway, that would be my reaction to your idea, Jen, though as a gay man I’m all in favour of it really!
April 26th, 2010 at 9:01 am
barriejohn, maybe you could just flash a little ankle…
I see papers talking about Boobquake in Bangalore, Vancouver, New Zealand (“Meantime, male social networking users globally are calling for Boobquake day to become a recurring annual fixture.” lol)… It becomes exclusionary, though, if men don’t participate…
Show your cleavage!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KJho.....v+neck.jpg
April 26th, 2010 at 10:15 am
This is better!
http://www.handsomemasculineme.....uscles.jpg
April 26th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Now dat’s sum boobs!
…..
As you can see, classy publications are doing all they can to lend their support.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/8.....eric-wrong
April 26th, 2010 at 10:52 am
I believe that he has appeared in gay porn, and I’m just waiting for Barry to say “I met him once, but he’s nothing special”!
What a shame that the Vatican’s idiotic remarks haven’t met with a like response to that afforded the crackbrained cleric!!
April 26th, 2010 at 10:55 am
Women! For goodness sake, let’s have no further reminders that these creatures are female!
April 26th, 2010 at 11:59 am
For males, does showing a tanned beergut or a “workman’s arse” at the top of your jeans count?
I think they’re obscene. Mrs B calls the gutted ones “Tarzan”.
April 26th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
There is still time to enter our “Draw a nasty picture of Mohammed” on our Godly Website http://www.landoverbaptist.net.....hp?t=41935
April 26th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
All you lousy freethinkers,you will be burned in HELL!
April 26th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
@solomon
Roasted ‘n’ toasted shithead.
April 26th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
If you haven’t got anything intelligent to say, solomon, go leave messages on forums for those with an equally retarded IQ.
You could try these for starters:
http://bobhutton1.blogspot.com/
http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.html
April 26th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
solomon, no one has ever told us that before, we honestly didn’t know. I suppose that we had better mend our evil ways then. Obviously people who believe in magic trees, talking animals and re-animated corpses are so much better informed than we are and we need to heed their advice.
April 26th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Hey Solomon! Take it, take it all! I’m curious about the likes of the famous “Long Dong Silver”. He had a 36″ cock, and legend has it he had to wear it around his waist while not performing. Would probably have violated nudity laws had he not as the tip may have poked out of his pant legs. I think he would have made a perfect candidate for this.
There’s a country singer-comedian with a great song entitled “Show your Tits fir America” that is along this line. Good song.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
No one should get the wrong idea, I like tits. But those tits look like half cantelopes welded to a rib cage and painted with some skin. Yuk!!! If I was at a carnival, I’d throw a dart at them and win a stuffed bear. What’s sexy about a bag of silicon gel????
If you want to see some perfect tits, look up Aspen Stevens or Carmen McCarthy. Just so you know ladies, augmented breasts may look good under your shirt, but in the open they look “GNARLY”. Save your money and buy a nice car.
NeoWolfe
April 26th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Stony,
My video card fried, took me off the grid for three days. Refer to previous threads to the debate on “facts not yet in evidence.”
By the way, this morning, I was watching a documentary on Discovery Channel, featuring Steven Hawking. He made this statement: “If humans take this leap, we may get a glimpse into the mind of god.” I know, my chin hit the floor, too. But, it’s really nothing new, the techs at the Swiss colider in search of the “god particle”, quantum theorists in search of “god’s dice”.
Point: Just because religion is ridiculous bullshit is insufficient cause to close your eyes or your mind.
NeoWolfe
April 26th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Hooray for Boobies!
April 26th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
My mind is cautiously open, show me evidence for the existence of a plausible god and I will consider it.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Stony,
I know, there is no plausible god, or a plausible origin of such a being. But, there is also no plausible accidental universe with built in evolution, nor plausible “something out of nothing”. So the only sane conclusion is the gospel of “I don’t know”. Now, maybe you understand me.
NeoWolfe
April 26th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Anyone who believes in HELL, and regards a god that would tolerate such a place as a nice guy, is as insane and evil as his god–and it is the most sadistic, evil, insane mass-murderer in all fiction.
April 27th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
I was as appalled as anybody by Stephen Hawking’s reference to “the mind of God.” But with a little help from Google, I quickly discovered that he has been using the same words as a metaphor for the immutable laws of physics since at least //A Brief History of Time.// He has many times made clear that he does NOT believe in a god that gives a shit about an insignificant planet at the arse end of an insignificant galaxy.
What bothers me more is his believe that, if there are aliens so superior to us in science and technology that they are able to build starships capable of traveling to earth, they may nonetheless be so morally inferior to us that they would be willing to do to us what the European invaders did to native Americans. It seems axiomatic that technological evolution MUST be accompanied by moral evolution, and contacting an alien intelligence (that must be at least sixty lightyears away, or they would have received our transmissions and responded by now) carries no risk whatsoever.
April 27th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
The “correct typos” system does not work. So substitute “belief” for “believe” in the appropriate place.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
On the subject of the original post, it has now been established that international cleavage day has not caused any change in seismic activity and so victory has been claimed and the mad cleric has supposedly been proved wrong.
On another comment thread, I’m sorry that I can’t remember where, some one suggested that had a devastating earthquake occurred, we would have never heard the end of it. The next post said that women could then take over the world by threatening to unleash their boobs of mass destruction.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Though the idea is fun, there is an unlucky coincidence: there was a quake on Monday near the Phillippines and Taiwan.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Yeah, df, but it wasn’t significant:
See
http://www.blaghag.com/2010/04.....re-in.html
April 28th, 2010 at 8:40 am
Dr Harwood said:
“I was as appalled as anybody by Stephen Hawking’s reference to “the mind of God.â€
I think any freethinker understood that Hawking was making a metaphor to insight into origin. At the same time, I think he was making it clear that the question is bigger than any of us. And while I would never try to make a case that he has any leaning toward being a religious dolt, I will say, along with Dawkins, that I can present a very strong case that they belong to, “I don’t know”.
NeoWolfe
April 29th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
BWAHAHAHHHHAAAAA
May 5th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
In every culture, clothes are a basic requirement. Even in the hot jungles of Africa, the inhabitants wear some minimal form of clothing. Modest clothing is not just a religious issue; it is a healthy and safe living choice. The manner in which one chooses to dress can be a distraction in the working place as well as in the school. Dress codes, which require more modest clothing, are becoming more popular with educators and professionals everywhere to facilitate less focus on sexuality and more focus on learning and working.
Another reason for encouraging modesty in clothing is out of self-respect. The manner, in which we dress and attend to our personal grooming, sends off signals to the world around us. Our appearance identifies us with certain manners of behavior and creates expectations in those around us. Just as a business suit, a black gown or a uniform would define a professional banker, lawyer or a student during working and school hours, modest clothing marks out women to be treated seriously and with respect. Modest clothing ensures that our intelligence, manners, wit, skills and poise get noticed and not just our genitals. But since our dress has become entirely about sex (skin-tight, low cut spaghetti straps or bare midriff tops and short shorts), it only provokes objectification and degradation of the female gender.
The sexual vulgarity in the print media and television is equally obscene and nauseating. Constantly we are gunned down with the belief that our bodies are for public ogling and that our self-esteem and self-image is cemented with sexual appeal. Many women may enjoy dressing scantily but this sensual/visual pleasure has cost millions of Americans, their lives. The ghastly number of women who have been raped and murdered, contracted STD and HIV is an affront to an educated and modern civilization.
According “the National organization of women†(NOW: http://www.now.org/issues/violence/stats.html), in 2005 alone, sexual partners killed 1,181 women in the United States. According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, women experience about 4.8 million sexual partner-related physical assaults and rapes every year in the US. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, which includes crimes that were not reported to the police, 232,960 women in the U.S. were raped or sexually assaulted in 2006. That is more than 600 women are raped everyday!! Why does the most socially progressive nation in the world, the United States, has the most outrageous violent crime rate against women? Go back step-by step and it begins with the absence of modesty in clothing. Men are visual creatures by design; they are easily aroused by the trashy display of women’s bodily assets. Unless a man walks with his eyes on his shoes, he cannot help but see half-naked women everywhere he goes. This is not only inconsiderate but intensely disrespectful towards men. By women overly exposing themselves, they are making it difficult for men to have a pure imagination. Even those men who are trying to be gentlemen will not jump up and be knights in shinnying armour if women set the bar so low. 15 years negligee was underwear but now it is a fashionable evening gown. Women advertise themselves as sex toys and are shocked when men treat them as such. A culture of immodest women will necessarily be a culture of uncommitted men.
Uncommitted men translate into sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, broken relationships. Sheetal Malhorta wrote in “Impact of the sexual revolution: consequences of risky sexual behaviors†(The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeon, 2008 – http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6 … ntent;col1) that that approximately 19 million new STI cases occur each year: about half in young persons aged 15 to 24. Also nearly 3 million new cases of chlamydia occur every year. Of all cases in female patients, half occur in girls aged 15 to 19. HPV affects about 20 million people in the U.S as well; about 6.2 million new HPV infections occur each year. HPV infection also causes vulvar, vaginal, penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. In 2006, more than 35,000 new HIV cases were diagnosed in the U.S. More than 500,000 Americans have died of AIDS, with 16,000 deaths occurring each year. Moreover the report stated that about 750,000 teenagers become pregnant each year. Teen parents are more likely to drop out of school, continue to have non-marital pregnancies, change jobs more frequently, be on welfare, and have mental and physical health problems. Not to mention early sexual activity and multiple partners are even associated with pain and suffering from broken relationships, a sense of betrayal and abandonment, confusion about romantic feelings, altered self-esteem, depression, and impaired ability to form healthy long-term relationships.
Scanty dresses have saturated women’s existence with sex and every possible perversion of sex. By asking women to dress modestly, Islam does not suppress their sexuality, rather it embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channeling – towards marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures healthy living, of the mind and the body. In Islam, a woman is cherished like a pearl; her privacy and personal dignity is honoured. By dressing modestly, Muslim women do not give men anything to gawk at; they do not allow men to take advantage of them and misuse them. Modest clothing therefore, is liberation from men and not subservience to them.
Why don’t more women take to the streets in modest clothing to experiment how much respect and appreciation they are given? Why are women silent about rape and sexually transmitted diseases? Why don’t they calculate the objectification and degradation of women in areas where they dress scantily vs. areas in which women dress modestly?
As far as earthquakes are concerned, we know the world did not create itself. The universe came into being from nothing as a result of a great explosion, emanated from a single point some fifteen billion years ago. Thereafter, matter, energy and time in the universes emerged in an instant and to this day, as proposed by Hubble, the universe continues to move and expand. The scientific community has only come to acknowledge these facts in the 20th century but the Qur’an accurately explained in detail the creation of the universe 1431 years ago.
“Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?†[Qur’an, 21:30]
“And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.†[Qur’an, 51:47]
Just as the universe was created out of nothing (the Big Bang), it will also come to an end and become nothing (the Big Crunch). When the universe reaches a sufficient level, the expansion will come to an end because of gravity, causing it to collapse in and on itself and disappear to a point smaller than a proton. The contracting universe will end in a fierce heat and contraction. Not long ago, with the help of advanced technological equipment and modern scientific knowledge Renata Kallosh and Andrei Linde, Professors from Standford University have discovered that the universe is in the middle of its life cycle. They anticipate that the dark energy will become excessively negative and cause the universe to become unstable and collapse. This remarkable truth is also prophesized in the Qur’an.
“They have not appraised AllÄh with true appraisal, while the earth entirely will be [within] His grip on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His right hand. Exalted is He and high above what they associate with Him.†[Qur’an, 39:69]
“The Day when We will fold the heaven like the folding of a [written] sheet for the records. As We began the first creation, We will repeat it. [That is] a promise binding upon Us. Indeed, We will do it.†[Qur’an, 21:104]
At a time when the world was awash with many superstitious and groundless notions, the Qur’an presented key facts of astronomy, physics and biology. How did Muhammad (peace be upon him), an illiterate Arab Bedouin, corroborate numerous scientific truths in the absence of information and technology to examine the universe? Obviously, this universe has a Creator who has intelligibly planned and prepared matter, energy and time. The very same Creator also revealed the Qur’an. Newton saw a ‘divine hand’ in things, which caused the movement of the Solar System. Darwin considered a ‘Creator’ necessary for the origin of life. There was a ‘Superior mind’, observed Einstein, which manifested itself in the universe. Sir James Jeans was led by his studies to the conclusion that the universe was a ‘great thought’ rather than a ‘great machine.’
The Creator draws our attention to how everything in the universe adheres to an astonishing order and unfailing regularity. A seed grows into a forest teeming with wildlife (Quran, 22:5) and small droplets of water make cascading falls and clouds (24:43). The celestial bodies travel intricate journeys through space in their orbits, never wavering from the path chosen for them. Every detail of nature is so diverse and complex that it cannot be a coincidence. Even the stages of development in a human being: pre-embryonic, embryonic and fetal are described in the Qur’an (23:14, 39:6, 96:1-3)
Is the purpose of the universe to serve as a stage for hideous crimes, ferocity and terror? Are human beings created for sex? Will there be no consequences for the infinite number of murder, rape and sexual transmitted diseases in the world? Should the Creator leave us to plunder the universe and live perverted lifestyles? No, surely the Creator guided us throughout human history with the best course of action and ethics through His infallible Prophets and Divine Instructions. The Creator gave life to us and dispersed us in the Earth; provided us with sustenance and medicines so that we will be healthy, happy and pure in our minds and bodies. Natural disasters like earthquakes and tornadoes are only to warn those people who succumb to corruption and promiscuity.
“Do you feel secure that He who [holds authority] in the heaven would not cause the earth to swallow you and suddenly it would sway? Or do you feel secure that He who [holds authority] in the heaven would not send against you a storm of stones? Then you would know how [severe] was My warning. And already had those before them denied, and how [terrible] was My reproach.†[Qur’an, 67:16-18]
Historically natural disasters have occurred in sexually promiscuous areas. Roman history bears witness to the fact that women’s bodies were lying at the intersection for public fondling. Roman public bath was like a country club. Graffiti at Pompeii and Herculaneum suggests that having prostitutes added to bath experience was common pleasure. The erotic frescoes depict both group and oral sex for bathers’ entertainment and advertise sexual services available on the upper floor of the baths. Their hedonistic culture was set ablazed and scalded with a rain of volcanic debris. Promiscuous Athens and 9* Sparta were also destroyed in the same way.
A little while back, just days before “Southern Decadence,” 34th annual homosexual celebration attracting tens of thousands of people to the French Quarter section of New Orleans to drink and perform sexual acts on the streets, Hurricane Katrina flooded 80% of the city. Earlier, the sex industry of Thailand, with the largest number of under-age prostitutes in the world, was punctured by the Tsunami. A few days back, on April 25th, 2010 Brazil, the birthplace of bikini, was hit with a 4.9 magnitude earthquake. The same day Richie Kotzen, a Satanist rock musician was scheduled to perform in Brazil.
Read the global disaster report http://globaldisasterwatch.blogspot.com/ almost everyday there is a strong earthquake in some part of the world. We are living at a time of great moral decadence and debauchery. Human laws and political systems have worsened the plight of humanity. Only our Creator can guarantee a healthy and happy survival of all human beings on condition that we believe in Him, dress modestly and become abstemious.
A nation that forsakes modesty and denies the Creator; a nation that mockingly demands punishment, should realize that to everything there is a season.
“And if AllÄh were to impose blame on the people for their wrongdoing, He would not have left upon the earth any creature, but He defers them for a specified term. And when their term has come, they will not remain behind an hour, nor will they precede (it).†[Qur’an, 16:61]
“And they urge you to hasten the punishment. And if not for [the decree of] a specified term, punishment would have reached them. But it will surely come to them suddenly while they perceive not.†[Qur’an, 29:53]
On the Day the Hour arrives the wrongdoers will be in despair. [Qur’an, 30:12]
May 27th, 2010 at 4:31 am
Sarah
Since no one responded to you, I will. You are full of crap…have a nice day.
July 8th, 2010 at 3:19 am
Women show cleavage because they buy clothes which show cleavage. Women buy clothes that show cleavage because they like the attention they get from men looking at their cleavage. It makes sense. Women are sex objects, and they prove that by showing cleavage.