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| Kazem Sedighi |
A
powerful and influential Iranian cleric, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, has blamed the frequent earthquakes in
his country on the lose morals of women … and, if you are skeptical of this
connection, please see The Conversation.
The Iranian President, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, apparently agrees. This
logic seems to revolve around a gigantic “earthquake machine” (apparently not
built by Halliburton) which is stimulated by immodest female dress and
adultery.
This all seems quite sensible to me … in that,
if there is a deleterious effect of nature (real or imagined) and there is a societal
dislocation that is constantly plaguing one’s psyche … then they must be
causally connected. And, to prove such a
connection, one need only construct a seductive rant that a naive public will
swallow (a PowerPoint presentation and a slick documentary movie using polar
bears and penguins also helps). This is a
proven recipe for powerful political influence and substantial monetary
gain.
I
fully expect Kazem Sedighi to win
next year’s Nobel Peace Prize (or at least the Physics Prize).
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