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Iran: Qom Friday Prayer Imam calls covid-19 ‘secular virus trying to lead religious countries astray toward atheism’

Jul 28, 2020 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Here we see yet again a Muslim cleric framing the coronavirus crisis in Islamic terms, holding out devout observance of Islam as the only true antidote. This will get people killed, not just from coronavirus, but from devoutness in Islam leading to involvement in jihad activity, as we have seen in so very many instances around the world.

“Prayer Imam In Iran Says Coronavirus Is Secular, Corrupting Religious Countries,” Radio Farda, July 24, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Qom’s Friday Prayer Imam, Abbas Mousavi Motlaq, says some people are unduly warning that the coronavirus outbreak threatens upcoming Muharram religious ceremonies, and commemorating third Shiite Imam in October.

Dismissing coronavirus as a “secular virus,” the mid-ranking clergy reiterated, “With its destructive effects coronavirus is trying to lead religious countries astray, and toward atheism.”

The Friday Prayer Imam of Qom, the largest center for the Twelver-Shiites seminaries in the world, insisted that coronavirus is “secular,” and people should only follow religious experts’ instructions for holding Muharram ceremonies.

In recent days, several clerics have criticized the continuation of coronavirus-related restrictions as the Shiites’ holy months of Muharram and Safar approach.

This is not the first time religious leaders in Iran have spread strange conspiracy theories about the pandemic. A hardliner cleric claimed in March that “over-rating the threat of the epidemic is a conspiracy by enemies.” He added that the coronavirus epidemic is part of “the clash of civilizations” instigated by secular Western powers against Islam and Muslims….

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  1. Ray Jarman says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 1:24 pm

    ” the mid-ranking clergy reiterated, “With its destructive effects coronavirus is trying to lead religious countries astray, and toward atheism.” And, I thought that the China Virus was a plague sent from Allah to aid in the jihad against the infidel and Israel and America in particular. I wonder how this makes those who intentionally became infected and attempted to spread the virus amongst the unbelievers?

    • Ned Kelly says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 8:52 am

      So WHY is he wearing a mask, if his devoutness is going to save him.?

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 29, 2020 at 9:12 pm

        Good question 🙂

  2. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 1:55 pm

    This is the first positive spin on the Wuhan virus bioweapon. Proof that there’s always a silver lining.

  3. Westman says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    So confusing. One Imam says it’s Allah’s retribution upon non-believers, another says it’s a Jewish conspiracy, another says it’s a US released disease that targets Iranians, and yet another says it’s a secular virus, somehow having intelligence, that is purposefully leading Muslims astray.

    The only certain observable conclusion seems to be – Islam is a house of confusion; substituting mysticism and conspiracy for logical thought. The Iranian citizens must be frustrated to the breaking point that such complete idiots have power over them.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 28, 2020 at 10:54 pm

      Yep–they can’t even keep their insane conspiracy theories straight. They are all really ugly, though–they have this in common.

      This is actually an important point–note that when Muslims are irrational, it is never about believing in unicorns or in lucky pennies. It is almost always something hideous like this.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 3:01 pm

    This jhadwatch.org article reports that imam Motlaq spoke in a mosque and”Dismissing coronavirus as a ‘secular virus,’ the mid-ranking clergy reiterated, ‘With its destructive effects coronavirus is trying to lead religious countries astray, and toward atheism.’ ”

    The point is who is then really responsible fort his terrible plague of the coronavirus that “is trying to lead religious countries astray ,and towards atheism.” ?

    Well, according to the Qu ‘ran the guilty one for creating ,spreading and infecting the the world with the coronavirus is really Red China but the god of Islam ,Allah.

    So Allah is responsible attempting “to lead religious to lead religious countries astray towards atheism”

    Wow , now a new title for the god of Islam should be “Allah the Insane.”

    For when getting down to basic Qu ‘ran theology which is the Qur ‘an based worldview the one who is really to blame and is responsible for the coronavirus plague is the god of Islam ,Allah. For according to the Qu ‘ran Allah had sent cruel disaster of coronavirus on human beings .

    This means then the god of Islam, as if he really does is a destructive and malicious god. For the Qu ‘ran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Qu ‘ran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.”

    Therefore according the Islam’s “holy book,” the Qu ‘ran the Islamic god, Allah, is guilty of infecting people with coronavirus What a cruel vicious, malicious god Allah must be. So Allah is than a very unloving malice –filled god.

    Nevertheless, all Christians and Jews shout not lose faith and heart in the God of the Bible as vicious by sending coronavirus on people.

    This is because the god of Islam is should be made clear that the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “

    Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.”

    In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible. Therefore the God of-the Bible didn’t create, spread and infect the world is the coroanvirus.

  5. mortimer says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    I pray for the longsuffering people of Iran who to endure this corrupt half-wits.

    The mullahs will swing from the lamp posts when the revolution comes.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 28, 2020 at 10:45 pm

      It’s been a long wait, Mortimer.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    Iran: Qom Friday Prayer Imam calls covid-19 ‘secular virus trying to lead religious countries astray toward atheism’
    ………………….

    Hmmm…last I noticed, viruses didn’t have any creeds. But Muslims seem to think that those without any brains at all do…actually, this is quite telling…

    • mortimer says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 11:01 am

      Ah, but GI, those clever Israelis have created viruses that target Muslims, but the even craftier Iranian mullahs have the virus-o-detector that can spot viruses and Israelis from 1000 meters or is it 10,000 … I keep forgetting which version it is.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 29, 2020 at 10:46 pm

        Ha ha!

  7. Janice Mermikli says

    Jul 29, 2020 at 7:48 am

    How can a virus be “secular”? It has nothing to do with secularism or with religion, which are in the realm of ideas and socal organisation. . Don’t these people know any biology?

    • Ned Kelly says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 8:54 am

      NO, they dont believe in science.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 10:47 pm

      +1

  8. Ned Kelly says

    Jul 29, 2020 at 8:53 am

    So why is he wearing a mask if his devoutness is going to save him.? + it is a plaque from Allah against infidels.?

  9. mortimer says

    Jul 29, 2020 at 10:59 am

    Abbas Mousavi Motlaq warns of atheism, but doesn’t see that backward throw-backs to the Middle Ages like him are creating the atheism.

    Keep talking Motlaq, there are still a few diehards left in the mosque. If you keep talking, they’ll leave too.

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