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Iran: Academy of Islamic Sciences top dog says Covid-19 is “secular virus” that “attacks religious institutions”

May 12, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

One might ask Mohammad Mehdi Mirbaqeri why, if the coronavirus was invented by the West to weaken Islam, has it so drastically weakened the West as well, but that might be asking for too much actual reasoning from a paranoid conspiracy theorist.

“Senior Cleric In Iran Says ‘Secular’ Coronavirus Was Made By West To Weaken Islam,” Radio Farda, May 11, 2020:

The head of the “Academy of Islamic Sciences” in Iran Mohammad Mehdi Mirbaqeri, says there has been excessive exaggeration about the dangers of the novel coronavirus, and that is an “enemy plot”.

Speaking to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)-linked Fars News Agency on Saturday, May 9, he cited unidentified analysts as saying that the coronavirus was a “secular virus” that “attacks religious institutions”.

The senior Shiite cleric, who is also a member of the powerful Assembly of Experts, described the deadly outbreak as a war on “religious civilization” and accused Western countries of creating the virus.

Earlier, the Islamic Republic Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had also accused the United States of producing coronavirus and quoted “some individuals” as saying that a version of the virus had also been made to infect Iranians.

Meanwhile, Mirbaqeri maintained that the aim of Westerns by “creating coronavirus” was to push people of the world into quarantine, force them to live in a “virtual environment” and defeat the rival civilizations through dominance over the cyberspace….

The Academy of Islamic Sciences, presided by Ayatollah Mirbaqeri, is also located in the city of Qom, where Chinese Muslims studying at Shiite seminaries might have brought the novel coronavirus to Iran.

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  1. Buraq says

    May 12, 2020 at 5:08 pm

    A classic case of “Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” (Anonymous ancient proverb, wrongly attributed to Euripides)

    • mortimer says

      May 13, 2020 at 12:32 am

      Even paranoids may have real enemies. (Euripides didn’t say that either.)

      Muslims think they have a lot of enemies because they are PROJECTING they own immature tendencies and fantasies onto ‘others’.

      • James Lincoln says

        May 13, 2020 at 8:13 am

        +1

    • william carr says

      May 13, 2020 at 4:55 am

      Islamic and science in the same sentence is an oxymoron. What is the Islamic contribution to the world of science since the start of the modern era?

      • Boromir's Horn says

        May 13, 2020 at 7:50 am

        And I used to tell my kid when the ice cream truck’s music is on, it means they’re all out of ice cream.

  2. Wellington says

    May 12, 2020 at 5:20 pm

    I nominate the term “Islamic sciences” as an eminently worthy finalist for the greatest oxymoron of all time.

    • James Lincoln says

      May 12, 2020 at 7:54 pm

      So Mohammad Mehdi Mirbaqeri is:

      1. The head of the “Academy of Islamic Sciences” in Iran.

      2. A member of the powerful Assembly of Experts.

      And, according to the feature article, he said that “the coronavirus was a “secular virus” that “attacks religious institutions”.”

      This is not even medically possible.

      Viruses do not respect race, color, religion, national origin, etc.

      This “senior cleric” knows nothing about basic science – but if you live in Iran, you’d better not disagree with him…

    • James Lincoln says

      May 12, 2020 at 8:55 pm

      +1

    • Keys says

      May 12, 2020 at 10:06 pm

      LOL !

      Islamic Sciences
      Assembly of Experts
      Religion of Peace
      Mohammad, Prophet of God

    • Westman says

      May 13, 2020 at 1:02 am

      You’ve got my vote. I might add that the “Islamic sciences” also contains the greatest morons, claiming to understand science, of all time.

    • gravenimage says

      May 14, 2020 at 10:26 pm

      Yes–hilarious!

  3. mgoldberg says

    May 12, 2020 at 6:02 pm

    bovine flatulent windbaggery. And that’s the good part of that guy.

  4. FYI says

    May 12, 2020 at 6:10 pm

    “The academy of islamic sciences”

    LOL.

    islam and Science?Oh now stop it!

    It can only ever be islam OR Science.

    {Would that include the Academy of koranic Astronomy?}

    “The hour drew near and the moon was rent in twain”
    koran 54:1

    Sure it was allah,sure it was..

    But just imagine if that really happened:Astronomers all over the world would have noticed it {and in fact most likely the earth wouldn’t be here today}

    Northumbria
    “I say Brother Cuthbert,I rather fancy I just saw the Moon split in half,Gott-wot-y-wis.
    Cup of tea?”

    China {Tang dynasty}
    “Hey Wang!WANG!Did..did.. you see that?Call Astronomer Wu-Li will you”

    India
    “Kumar!Look! The moon is splitting in half…wow..”

    Arabian peninsula
    zzzzzzzzz

    As a lifelong amateur Astronomy enthusiast I can promise you that the moon was never split in half{..I have a telescope…nope,no sign of any split…},the stars are not missiles to ward off devils and the sun does not set in a muddy pool.But hey.you can’t argue with allah’s “perfect” koran:he might slap you around with his TWO RIGHT HANDS.

  5. FYI says

    May 12, 2020 at 6:47 pm

    Let’s remember all those islamic inventions…

    The magic carpet
    The phasor{as seen on Star Trek}
    The perpetual motion machine
    The islamic theory of Relativity{as you approach the speed of light you become a devil}
    Phlogiston Field Theory
    Moon splitting{koran 54:1}
    Using stars to ward off devils
    Flying Donkeys{koran 17;1,buraq, muhammed’s mode of transport}
    islamic string theory{universe has 19 dimensions: “Above it are 19″koran 74:30
    Pythagoras’ Theorem
    The coffee filter
    Anything ever discovered by Jewish/Christian/Atheist scientists…

    • Mural says

      May 13, 2020 at 12:37 am

      +1. Lol.

    • Mural says

      May 13, 2020 at 12:44 am

      And the latest one, coronaviris detector from Iran!!

      • Westman says

        May 13, 2020 at 1:12 am

        And it locates the virus at 100 meters distance; designed by the same Iranian guys whose cruise missile hit their own ship last week…

    • Gray says

      May 13, 2020 at 4:48 am

      C’mon now. Be fair. As David Wood points out, Islam must be given the credit for inventing Time Travel. After all, Islam can take any advanced Western democracy and, seemingly in the blink of an eye, transfer that advanced Western Democracy back in time, all the way back to Seventh Century Arabia.

      • Jumpmaster173 says

        May 13, 2020 at 5:00 am

        Very good observation…..LOL!!!

      • James Lincoln says

        May 13, 2020 at 8:16 am

        Yes, Gray.

        Time travel back to seventh century Arabia, but with anachronisms.

        Cell phones, Internet, social media…

    • gravenimage says

      May 13, 2020 at 8:54 pm

      The coffee filter was invented by German housewife Melitta Bentz, so Muslims don’t even have that one.

  6. Rob says

    May 12, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    Be interesting to see the travel dates and destinations of people from the Muslim west of China to Qoms around Chinese New Year. This would mainly be from Urumqi.
    It also raises a point about the crackdown by China on its Muslim citizens. If the detentions are akin to concentration camps, how come they let students go offshore to study in the most radical Islamic country there is?

  7. gravenimage says

    May 12, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    Iran: Academy of Islamic Sciences top dog says Covid-19 is “secular virus” that “attacks religious institutions”
    ………………….

    So this Muslim “scientist” thinks that viruses *have ideologies*?

    Well, the Coronavirus *is* probably smarter than he is…

    • Mural says

      May 13, 2020 at 12:41 am

      The ‘shifting-goal posts’ strategy employed by these folks is comical. Initially they claimed this virus is from Allah. Now it is a secular virus! What next?

      These guys, should have their own Netflix special. They will give Seinfeld a run for his money. -)

    • mortimer says

      May 13, 2020 at 1:53 am

      But, GI, it’s a ‘magic’ virus … a ‘bewitched’ virus.

      The Iran Academy of Islamic Sciences doesn’t live in the 7th century you know … they live in the eighth century.

      • gravenimage says

        May 13, 2020 at 8:55 pm

        🙂

  8. JHL says

    May 12, 2020 at 10:15 pm

    Islam is an evil ideology. I was booted off facebook for simply stating that I don’t trust Muslims. Okay, I’ll say it again: I don’t trust Muslims.

    • Mural says

      May 13, 2020 at 12:42 am

      JHL, with this new commitee in place at Facebook, I expect dissenting voices to be silenced further.

      • gravenimage says

        May 13, 2020 at 8:56 pm

        Grimly true. They have a Muslim-Brotherhood linked Mohammedan censoring for them now.

    • Bruce D. Watt says

      May 13, 2020 at 2:52 pm

      I went to a Neuroligist associated with my GP, a muslim he tested my legs for Neuropathy, for the test he went into a box in his desk drawer and pick out what looked to me as a plain tack and asked me where i felt it prick my skin. I did and after the testing he put it back in the box in the drawer and said i was finished. He did no alcohol rub before or after and i was left with little prick blood at the sites tested, That was in 87 and I have refused any Physician with a muslim name since. I still think they are stealth Jihading by passing around infections with impunity on unsuspecting Kuffirs.

      • gravenimage says

        May 14, 2020 at 10:45 pm

        Yes–best to avoid them where possible.

        • Kathy says

          May 15, 2020 at 4:23 pm

          Try doing that in an Israeli hospital! I was hospitalized earlier this week – all the doctors who treated me were Muslim Arabs and also most of the medical staff. I swear, every time I end up in hospital here, I’m more frightened that some random Jihadi in a surgical coat will finish me off than I am of dying from a disease!

        • gravenimage says

          May 15, 2020 at 11:03 pm

          Sorry to hear this, Kathy.

  9. Owen Morgan says

    May 13, 2020 at 3:37 am

    The concept of “islamic sciences” is something of a contradiction in terms.

  10. Templer says

    May 13, 2020 at 7:48 am

    I thinck this bone head is a conplete fool it’s a virse from china it s a chemical warfare covin19 is not from bats covin 19 is not from the wet markets covin19 is not sent by the west and if you are Muslim as there unholy Koran says falsely you are not proved from this virse trump knows who sold china the covin he allso knows it was released by china this Islamic top dog is talking BS to much sex with goats and children pedo mo stricks again

    • Giacomo Latta says

      May 13, 2020 at 8:01 am

      Re: title.
      If only.

  11. Iambob says

    May 13, 2020 at 10:21 am

    So what, Mo, if it is? Apparently, it’s nothing that drinking a little camel’s urine won’t cure. Right?

  12. unbeliever1 says

    May 13, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    And I can bet that his audience swallowed every word of it.

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