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Mar. 11th, 2007 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I wonder what the heck Sheik Omran actually said? Did he really blame the drought on the infidel? I've heard both Christians and Pagans put the case that "out of control secular scientific values" are at least partly responsible for the environmental crisis, and that a more spiritual attitude to the Earth would help save us. But it's impossible to tell from the brief quotes the media are copying off each other what Omran's actual speech said.
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Date: 2007-03-11 12:18 pm (UTC)"The fear of Allah is not there," he said at a recent meeting. So we now have a polluted earth, a polluted water, a wasteland.
"What are the people now crying for? The prophet told you hundreds of years ago, 'Look after the water'."
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Date: 2007-03-11 01:14 pm (UTC)(Unless she added the link after you commented, and she's usually pretty good about noting postscript edits.)
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Date: 2007-03-11 01:23 pm (UTC)It seems, if I'm following the traces correctly, to be an abridged version of this article in the Herald Sun.
(The unabridged version doesn't have any more about what Sheik Omran actually said on the subject, unfortunately. But it does supply a bit more of the context in which his remarks are being reported.)