Old Weird Ward
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Thursday, January 06, 2005
- - - - - Tsunami Contributions From The Islamic World - - - - -
The country that's taken the most casualties in the Tsunami Sweepstakes is Idonesia, the country with the largest Islamic population in the world. See the whole article HERE.
One factor holding back donations appears to be a widespread belief that vacationers were swept away as a form of divine retribution for their un-Islamic or immoral lifestyles. That argument was heard in televised Friday prayers across the Arab world.
"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," one cleric, Sheik Fawzan Al-Fawzan, was quoted as saying. "The fact that it happened at this particular time is a sign from Allah."
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Let's see here...Got your stones ready for stoning aldulturesses? Check.
Got your AK for spray and pray at kids? Check.
Got your explosive vest? Check.
Got your pilot training to find tall buildings? Check.
Got your IEDs ready for Iraqi buses? Check.
Got your Allahu Akhbar chant all tuned up and ready to do harmony with your beheading knife? Check.
Got a few extra dinars for suffering Muslims in Indonesia? Sorry, they're immoral!
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