Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr said today that the increase in natural disasters in the world is “due to sins” such as the “legalization of same-sex marriage”, referring to the earthquake in Morocco and the floods in Libya.
“Recently, natural disasters in the world have increased, this is due to sins” such as “the legalization of same-sex marriage” and its “imposition on countries in a dirty way,” the cleric said today via his account X (formerly Twitter).
In his publication, Al Sadr stated that “natural disasters are not limited to third world countries” and, for example, mentioned the United States in addition to Greece, as it was highlighted as “the first country to be hit by storms and fires”. or volcanic eruption in New Zealand.
“It is said that natural disasters have hit poor areas and third world countries that do not play an active role in ratifying homosexuality laws, but the normalization and interaction of some governments or people with the concept of LGBTQ community has influenced the increase in the number of people. natural disasters in these countries”he added.
According to the cleric, natural disasters are a ‘worldly punishment’ and are equivalent to a ‘warning’ for the ‘discovery’ and the “Following Western ideas, spreading obscenity and corruption”.
He thus believed that this “earthly punishment” against “Muslim and religious governments and peoples” was due to their passivity in the face of “Western aggression against the faith” but to allowing homosexuality or the issue of burning of copies of the Quran in countries such as Sweden or Denmark.
“We see that the first countries to be hit by natural disasters are those that have normalized or will normalize their relations with Israel.”said Al Sadr in reference to Morocco, which normalized ties with the Jewish state in 2020 with the signing of the Abraham Accords, promoted by the United States, although Israel recognized Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara last July.
Turning to Libya, the cleric says the country owes “an unforgivable debt for not revealing the whereabouts of the leader of the Lebanese Arab resistance Musa al Sadr,” a political leader who founded Lebanon’s Amal movement in 1978. traveled to Libya where he disappeared, causing controversy due to the refusal of Libyan authorities to allow in a Lebanese mission to clarify his disappearance.
The Iraqi cleric, who announced his withdrawal from politics last August after his supporters took over Parliament, ended his message on the social network by asking “God for security for the faithful in both the east and west of the planet”.
Friday’s earthquake, whose epicenter was recorded in the town of Ighil, 63 kilometers southwest of the city of Marrakesh, was felt in Portugal and Spain and reached a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale, according to the Moroccan National Geophysical Research Institute of the United Nations. States Geological Survey recorded a magnitude of 6.8.
This earthquake is the deadliest in Morocco since the earthquake that devastated Agadir, on the country’s west coast, on February 29, 1960, killing between 12,000 and 15,000, a third of the city’s population.
On Sunday, the passage of Cyclone Daniel through Libya caused the deaths of more than 2,356 people, of which more than 10,000 were missing.
Source: DN
