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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

The Rev. Fred Phelps and his compatriots in Saudi Arabia
Posted by Jill | 10:37 AM

By now you've probably seen the flyer being circulated by the so-called "Reverend" Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church, in which he regards the recent Asian tsunami as God's punishment against Sweden for their tolerance of gays.

Turns out that Mr. Phelps has some like-minded friends in that bastion of religious freedom, Saudi Arabia.

From the New York Times, via Factesque:

The view that wanton behavior provoked the quake was the subject of Friday sermons in Saudi Arabia and of other religious commentaries.

"Asia's earthquake, which hit the beaches of prostitution, tourism, immorality and nudity," one commentator said on an Islamist Web site, "is a sign that God is warning mankind from persisting in injustice and immorality before he destroys the ground beneath them."

Walid Tabtabai, a member of the Kuwaiti Parliament, said the earthquake was a message.

"We believe that what occurs in terms of disasters and afflictions is a test for believers and punishment for the unjust," he wrote in a column in the newspaper Al Watan.


Aren't theocracies wonderful? I can't wait till we have one, which at the rate we're going will probably be long around January 21st.
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