I Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet
Susan notes April 27: over 210,000 people around the world "attended" #boobquake yesterday. As I write this, it's still ongoing in some places, and no doubt will cause tremors worldwide for some time to come.AWR thanks all #boobquakers for making the event such a huge global success (:P), and equally celebrates #brainquake, which makes even more sense.
Sexy, intelligent women everywhere shake the world!
Susan notes April 26: Jen McCreight's response to the article below was to organise "Boobquake" to see if dressing immodestly would cause the earth to shake.
Some have taken offence to the bawdy nature of the protest, but this feminist says lighten up and have some fun with it! Breasts are beautiful and I've got no problem showing a bit of cleavage for a good cause:) And, oh yeah, small is beautiful :P
Susan notes: this great Carole King tune and live performance are
dedicated to the looney toons cleric in Iran who says immodest female
behaviour causes earthquakes.Read the unbelievable story from The Guardian below.... if it wasn't so tragic, it would be funny.... However, I think it should be said, in all fairness, that this is likely NOT a view shared by the vaste majority of Iranian clerics..
"Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes," Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media.
From the Guardian article:
Women behaving promiscuously are causing the earth to shake,
according
to cleric, as Ahmadinejad predicts Tehran quake.
A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.
Iran is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric's unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate.
"Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes," Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media.
Women in the Islamic Republic are required by law to cover from head to toe, but many, especially the young, ignore some of the more strict codes and wear tight coats and scarves pulled back that show much of the hair.
"What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble?" Sedighi asked during a prayer sermon last week. "There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes."
Seismologists have warned for at least two decades that it is likely the sprawling capital will be struck by a catastrophic quake in the near future. Some experts have even suggested Iran should move its capital to a less seismically active location. Tehran straddles scores of fault lines, including one more than 50 miles long, though it has not suffered a major quake since 1830.
Click here for the full story:
guardian.co.uk
Related links:
More About Iran on AWR
Brainquake Makes Even More Sense Than Showing Cleavage
A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.
Iran is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric's unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate.
"Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes," Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media.
Women in the Islamic Republic are required by law to cover from head to toe, but many, especially the young, ignore some of the more strict codes and wear tight coats and scarves pulled back that show much of the hair.
"What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble?" Sedighi asked during a prayer sermon last week. "There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes."
Seismologists have warned for at least two decades that it is likely the sprawling capital will be struck by a catastrophic quake in the near future. Some experts have even suggested Iran should move its capital to a less seismically active location. Tehran straddles scores of fault lines, including one more than 50 miles long, though it has not suffered a major quake since 1830.
Click here for the full story:
guardian.co.uk
Related links:
More About Iran on AWR
Brainquake Makes Even More Sense Than Showing Cleavage