Pakistani Cleric Blames COVID-19 Outbreak On Immodest Actions, Wrongdoings Of Women

Hello, scientific community around the world who are trying to find the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak that is wreaking havoc around the world, you can take some rest. Because a Pakistani cleric has already found it.?

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It is the women and their wrongdoings!Maulana Tariq Jameel a well-known Pakistani cleric has claimed that COVID-19 has been unleashed on humanity because of the 'wrongdoing of women.'?

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During a televised prayer, the maulana condemned women for dancing and for how they dress, saying these “immodest actions” have brought the Almighty’s wrath upon the country, Dawn News reported.?

The worst part of the cleric's absurd comments is that he made it in the presence of Prime Minister Imran Khan on live television who did not stop him or question him for making such statements.?

Jameel also condemned media for disseminating lies but later apologised for that remarks. No such apology was made for his offensive remarks on women.?

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has chided the maulana for "inexplicably" correlating women's 'modesty' to the COVID-19 pandemic.?

"HRCP is appalled at Maulana Tariq Jamil's recent statement inexplicably correlating women's 'modesty' to the Covid19 pandemic. Such blatant objectification is unacceptable and, when aired on public television, only compounds the misogyny entrenched in society," the body tweeted.?

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Nida Aly, director of the Asma Jahangir Legal Aid cell (AGHS), said Pakistan had seen a rise in the cases of violence against women, and extreme situations, including honour crimes, domestic violence, assault and abuse of women.She said while women under lockdown needed security from the community, “the government ‘trotted out Tariq Jameel on a broadly televised programme who not just objectified women but declared them and their individualist actions to bring the wrath of God and punishment in the form of Covid-19."?

Incidentally, Tariq Jameel is not the first to claim that divine wart was the cause of COVID-19.firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Saturday said that legalization of same-sex marriage caused the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

“One of the most appalling things that have caused this epidemic is the legalization of same-sex marriage,” Sadr tweeted, adding, “Hence, I call on all governments to repeal this law immediately and without any hesitation.”?

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An ultra-orthodox Jewish Rabbi, Meir Mazuzhad also made similar claims and said that. “A pride parade is a parade against nature, and when someone goes against nature, the one who created nature takes revenge on him."?

Back home in India, the Hindu Mahasbha had claimed that the virus was an ''avatar'' to punish non vegetarians."Corona is not a virus, but avatar for the protection of poor creatures. they have come to give the message of death and punishment to the one who eats them," Swami Chakrapani, the National President of All India Hindu Mahasabha had said.??