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Blaming disasters on god

Superstitious Folly

... The idea that God is behind natural disasters is still a respectable superstition in most Islamic societies, just as it was in pre-modern Christian communities. However, Muslim preachers, unlike their distant Christian counterparts, have never viewed the victims of natural disasters as sinners who deserved their misfortune. Instead, they propagated the idea of emtahan-e elahi or God's testing in order to prove that God acts for a reason. ...

Earthquake: Misfortune, Injustice, or the Will of God? From Bam to Lisbon