Lest anyone think that we in the Muslim world have a monopoly on backwardness and comical fundamentalism:
Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, said the tremors had been caused by lawmaking that gave “legitimacy to sodomyâ€.
Israel decriminalized homosexuality in 1988 and has since passed several laws recognizing gay rights.
Two earthquakes shook the region last week and a further four struck in November and December.
Quoted from the BBC by The Skeptic