Top Shia cleric says “blame the victim”.

It is always nice to hear a moderate muslim voice (sarc)

Mashad, 10 April (AKI) – A top Shia cleric in Iran has said that unveiled women are a serious danger to Iranian society as they cause men to be “transformed into beasts”.
-This “ruling” seems to come around a few times a year and in different muslim countries. The blame the victim mindset is as old as islam itself.

“Women without the veil are a danger that the authorities underestimate,” said Hojatolislam Seyyed Ahmad Elmalhoda, a powerful cleric who leads the Friday prayers in Mashad, a site considered sacred for Shia Muslims as it houses the shrine of Imam Reza.
-Women in or out of a veil are endangered by islam he did get that part right.

“This situation is very serious in that if men see these bad women, they will turn into beasts, and then the whole of society will have to pay the consequences.”
-Now this pisses me off, when I say muslims are uncontrollable animals I am called names, an imam does it and he is a scholar. Well, if he can not teach muslims to behave themselves and control their primal desires he is not much of a teacher or scholar is he?

According to the Shia cleric, women who do not respect conservative Islamic dress rules are “sources of all that is bad in society.”
-Really? So, the clothes make the woman?

“Respecting the chador (a long, black cloak that covers the arms and legs and is usually worn with a hijab) is the law of the state and the authorities must severely punish anyone who does not respect this law, in the same way that they punish thieves and murderers,” said Elmadhoda.
-Ok ladies, you heard the man just face the fact that you are little more than property and if given your choice you would also all be common criminals.

He is who is also a member of the Council of Experts – a powerful body of 86 senior clerics which elects, supervises and can dismiss the country’s supreme leader.

He was speaking to journalists who were reporting on president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the shrine of Imam Reza.
-imam reza was just another famous pedophile, loser. I completely understand why they worship him.

“A women who does not wear the entire veil is like a fire which burns anyone who comes into contact with her,” said Elmalhoda.
-I always wonder if the push for the veil is really the result of inbreeding, muslims might just use it as a way of hiding the fact that their favorite wife is also their kid sister.

“Our youth, even those who are educated by families who believe and respect the words of the Prophet, when they come into contact with this fire [the women who are not properly veiled] they burn and become ash,” he said.
-Nice line, notice how he both absolved them of responsibility for their actions and tossed in the victim card. Typical muslim logic, blame the victim by pretending to be one.

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