It used to be the case that whenever some cleric blamed mass death on Allah’s wrath, we could pass it on with a snarky sense of superiority. But ever since Christian and Jewish groups blamed Katrina on the assorted sins of New Orleans residents, Ariel Sharon, and the United States as a whole, we’ve had to settle for passing the idiocy on with relative humility:
A Muslim cleric in earthquake-ravaged northern Pakistan says lurid television programming on cable television caused the disaster by invoking Allah’s wrath. While much of the town of Garhi Habibullah was leveled in the Oct. 8 quake, the new black coaxial cables are visible, strung amid the wreckage, the Los Angeles Times said. The town only got cable seven months ago, and had about 300 homes wired.
