And I am seeing a pattern of natural disasters that seemed deliberately aimed at some of the main population centers of Islam.
The 8.7 quake in March basically only did damage and killed people on the Indonesian island of Nias, and nowhere else in Indonesia; Nias is unusual in Indonesia in that 90% of its population is Christian.
So, so much for the whole imbecilic theory of the article.
There is a very good website, which I check out twice daily, that lists all earthquakes around the world.
Unfortunately nothing leads to more nonsense then the uneducated staring at these maps.
In fact, most of the plagues can be attributed to a super eruption. And it just so happens that there was a super eruption at the time of the Exodus. It was on the Greek island of Thera, which is now called Santorini.
The eruption of Thera was not a "super eruption" by any standard; it was a large eruption, but it was trivially small (several hundreds times smaller) than the Yellowstone or Toba eruptions. It was only 1/4th the size of Tambora in 1815.
And Indonesia has been under constant onslaught by nature, perhaps initiated by the Almighty, for months.
Indonesia has been under constant onslaught by nature for millions of years; long before anyone there converted to Islam or there were even humans there. The volcanoes were all there long before there was Islam and there were giant tsunamis and quakes there routinely long before Islam.
The simple-minded seem to view disasters as things that specifically happen to certain groups of people; actually what has happened is certain groups of people move into areas where disasters have been occuring for millions of years.
Even before the tsunami of December 26, 2004, I had noticed an increase of earthquakes in that area. And since the tsunami, the frequency of the earthquakes has been increasing dramatically.
The author seems to not even vaguely understand the concept of "aftershocks."
On top of that, many of their volcanoes have awakened.
What actually happened is that the media has decided to give more attention to Indonesian volcanoes since 12/26/04.
At any given time 2-4 Indonesian volcanoes are erupting, and this has been true for centuries. There's nothing particularly unusual or extreme about current Indonesian volcanic activity.