Iran Cleric: "God's Fury" Will Be Unleashed If Female Governors Allowed

Alarabiya:

A top hardline Iranian cleric said on Thursday that "God's fury" would be unleashed if Iran appoints women as governors of some provinces, as was raised as a possibility by a minister last week.

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Comments

[MARNIE2]

09:13 AM on 10/23/2009

......WOW......ALLL.......But......Thunder Bolt's &......Lightning..... !..........lol !.....STOP....being so
MEAN-SPIRITED........GOD'S WATCHING... !....

[MARNIE2]

11:27 AM on 10/19/2009

.....GET A CLUE........GOD MADE...WOMEN...AS EQUAL TO MAN ! ---this is why Shariah law is un-just !
I think they should allow woman to run-for-governor if...she wins........it's..... GOD'S WILL.....right ?
.......GOD'S IN CONTROL !!!

[LyssaBarnes]

09:43 AM on 10/16/2009

Fear is a mind-numbing disease.

[Paulo1]

09:21 AM on 10/16/2009

OK so lets put faith to the test.

Put in a woman governor and then wait patiently for "Gods Fury"

If it happens, then they have a right to preach their obnoxious form of Islam.

If it does not happen then they are hypocrites and frauds and should submit to a little well deserved stoning.

[zenwhenicanbe2]

08:04 AM on 10/16/2009

he sounds so ridiculous

[mamacat]

11:48 PM on 10/15/2009

This fellow probably believes what he is saying, like the justice of the peace in Louisiana who believes he is not racist, but that it is wrong to allow interracial marriages. Was it Shakespeare who said, "What fools these mortals be"?

[CoronaDischarge]

11:38 PM on 10/15/2009

It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between Conservatives anywhere in the world. That guy sounds like he could be running for Governor of Texas.

[IlooklikeGeorgeWyner]

10:36 PM on 10/15/2009

Didn’t this prehistoric ass give the invocation at the recent “Value Voter’s” summit?

[wereeverywhere]

10:07 PM on 10/15/2009

Iranians: if misery loves company, be comforted- IRI is not the only place with loony, rights-denying authorities.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_interracial_rebuff

NEW ORLEANS – A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.

Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.

[InTheSouth]

09:55 PM on 10/15/2009

Maybe Mother Earth will shake some sense into them. She's been working in that area for a while now. I think the women over there are in for a long fight, but one they can win if they keep at it. We women in the west still do not have equal rights and many of us take what has been won by our forebearers for granted. There is no rational reason women should not have every right and privilege of men. Religion is MAN made myth. Toss it aside as it has NO authority.

[MajorKong]

07:05 PM on 10/15/2009

Where does he think he is? Oklahoma?

[InTheSouth]

09:48 PM on 10/15/2009

LOL. They certainly believe they have dibs on it.

[impressiveprogressive]

07:05 PM on 10/15/2009

More religious bigotry. Right on par with the anti-gay religious bigots in this country

[BADRALDUJA]

05:59 PM on 10/15/2009

Thats bull---..this is not islamic law,,in the quran,,men and women are equal..maybe some need to take time to read the quran and its intepretation.....thus cleric is only talking man law..the only law women are nt allowed is to become imams in the mosque as they mentruate,,and one cannot enter aa mosque untill fully cleansed.
ahmadi nejad seems to promote women,,thats what it says in the full article

[InTheSouth]

10:00 PM on 10/15/2009

The fact that women menstrate does NOT make a woman any less worthy as a human being. It is nonsense. It is simply a function of the reproductive system. Nothing impure about it. The whole prity thing is hogwash. Religion is hogwash.

[rosemacaskie]

12:40 PM on 10/17/2009

I think the best thing to do when islamic teachers say something questionable, unkind and destructive, is to get other Islamic scholar to contradict them like Badrulduja. It is silly to increase the christian islamist confrontation and there can't be many christians who know what they're talking about when they answer a islamic statement, so it is better to refer to a Islamic expert when refuting these things. rose macaskie.

[totalliberal]

05:30 PM on 10/15/2009

Did he squeeze his eyes shut like Pat Ro/bertson when he was told this. If not, it was probably some kind of phony-baloney sand go/d that he was speaking with.

[Khirad]

05:10 PM on 10/15/2009

From the article:

In recent years Iranian women have outnumbered men in universities but they still account for only around 15 percent of the official work force.

Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women have been banned from becoming judges and suffer from legal inequalities with men in marriage, divorce and inheritance.

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Yes, this is what I was saying the other day - though I accidentally said adoption instead of custody. The former is more of a religious discrimination. And oh no, guard your ears and your loins, lest you hear a female singer in the lead, apart from as limited backup!

To make an attempt to be fairer than the apologists, Ahmadinejad has ruffled feathers with his 'mavericky' picks of women ministers. However; his record on family policies (a woman's place is in the home, and only duty child rearing) was reflected in his cabinet picks, ironically. I still remember the television program where all the candidates, apart from Karoubi, of course (he was with the later arrested Abtahi), appeared with their wives. Guess who didn't show up? And anyone want to guess the Supreme Leader's view of women?

Still, lest anyone get too despondent there are many stories like this, as well:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,529173,00.html