Posted on 01/05/2005 6:44:21 AM PST by missyme
A Muslim Saudi professor says the earthquake and tsunami in south Asia were punishment from Allah for homosexuality and fornication committed by residents and visitors of affected countries at Christmastime.
A television interview of Sheik Fawzan Al-Fawzan, a professor at the Al-Imam University, was translated and posted on the Internet by the Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project, or MEMRI TV. The interview can be viewed on MEMRI's website.
These great tragedies and collective punishments that are wiping out villages, towns, cities and even entire countries, are Allah's punishments of the people of these countries, even if they are Muslims," stated Al-Fawzan. "Some of our forefathers said that if there is usury and fornication in a certain village, Allah permits its destruction."
The professor singled out beach resorts as places of sexual sin.
"We know that at these resorts, which unfortunately exist in Islamic and other countries in south Asia, and especially at Christmas, fornication and sexual perversion of all kinds are rampant," he said. "The fact that it happened at this particular time is a sign from Allah. It happened at Christmas, when fornicators and corrupt people from all over the world come to commit fornication and sexual perversion.
That's when this tragedy took place, striking them all and destroyed everything. It turned the land into wasteland, where only the cries of the ravens are heard. I say this is a great sign and punishment on which Muslims should reflect."
Al-Fawzan urged Muslims to atone for their sin.
"All that's left for us to do is to ask for forgiveness We must atone for our sins and for the acts of the stupid people among us and improve our condition. We must fight fornication, homosexuality, usury, fight the corruption on the face of the earth, and the disregard of the lives of protected people."
San Francisco destroyed by tsunami?
I would think San Francisco would be the first one to be wiped out?
Sounds like some Christian wackos I've spoken to recently.
Ya gotta love religion!
Since a Muslim Saudi professor says that earthquake and tsunami in south Asia were punishment from Allah - that's OK
You won't hear it on TV networks...
Is he trying to one-up Pat Robertson? :)
Damn, I was under the impression the earthquake caused it.
Adios, Provincetown.
My point precisely. SF is lucky.
But what does Allah do with the Christmas time? Wouldn't ramadan be more pertinent?
Maybe allah better just concetrate on abortion clincs close to the shore and maybe hollywood, ...,/sarcasm> /idiocrisy>
Sounds like the Muslim version of Jerry Falwell.
I've seen many of those posts too. I am a Christian but I don't believe God said, "I'm going to send a tsunami to wipe out all those folks in the Indian Ocean". I still thnk this is Rove and Halliburton at work! ; )
I think so. Everyone has competition.
I would think San Francisco would be the first one to be wiped out?
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Yes, too bad that did not happen. For those of us that live too close to that radical leftist excrement pile, that would have restored some of our faith in California, once a grand state before the liberal plague took over.
Just heard our "grand liberal dump" just took BOTTOM HONORS IN SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT -- about #48 --- thanks to the LIBERAL EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT HERE -- can you believe we were NUMBER ONE in the nation, when this was a conservative state?? I can because I was here when it was -- and the state goverment was arguing over how to return BILLIONS IN STATE TREASURY TO THE TAXPAYERS -- made headlines!!!. Now we are only $35 BILLION in debt -- a record for any state in the U.S.
Isn't liberalism beautiful ???
Oh really? Then how come not one crown prince of Saudi Arabia wasn't killed? Most of them are walking poster children for prostitution, drugs, pedophilia, hedonism and sadism when they leave their country's borders.
True! I just picked the first coastal sin bed that popped in my head.
He is arguing for those places in Thailand and Srilanka. However, the area that suffers the most (in terms of people killed) from the Tsunami is Aceh. It is the most Islamic area in Indonesia, where Syariah law is the law of the land. No other provinces in Indonesia enjoy such "privilege."
San Fransissy would be destroyed by pestilence and disease, not by a tsunami. This Mooslim cleric needs to go fornicate himself.
Can this idiot sheethead wretch explain why many fornicators, perverts, infidels, etc. survived the tsunami? I guess Allah has his rifle scope poorly adjusted.
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