Three days after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the US East Coast, hitting New Jersey and New York the hardest, millions of Americans are now confronted with gas shortages and an overwhelmed mass transit system.
With over six million homes still without power as far west as Wisconsin in the Midwest and as far south as the Carolinas, motorists in New Jersey, the hardest hit state, roamed for hours looking for a working petrol pump that still had petrol, the ABC reported.
The US death toll from Sandy tops 90 as swathes of the east coast battle to recover.
Some anti-American Muslim clerics believe that Hurricane Sandy which slammed into the US East Coast, hitting New Jersey and New York the hardest, is the divine punishment for a film made in the US allegedly mocking the Prophet Muhammad.
Muslims around the world also believe that the superstorm is also a Divine punishment to US for killing innocent Muslims in Iraq ,Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, etc in the so-called “War on Terror”. One such example is the war in Iraq which was the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation under totally false pretenses. There were no WMD’s, there was no collaboration with the supposed Bin Laden. Iraq was innocent. US shed Innocent blood in every corner of this world. When no WMD’s could be found, US then switched reason for Iraq war to “WMD Program’s” (WMDP). In just the Iraq war alone, the US managed to kill nearly a million Iraqis – a large percentage of whom were civilians who had nothing to do with the conflict. Thousands of civilians have been killed in Pakistan in drone attacks. The list of anti-Muslim activities of US goes on. It is high time that US should learn lesson and fear God’s wrath.
In Egypt, a radical cleric described the hurricane as revenge from God for the crude, anti-Islam film that sparked waves of protests in the Muslim world in September.
“Some people wonder about the hurricane in America and its causes,” Egyptian hardline cleric Wagdi Ghoneim tweeted twice this week in the aftermath of the storm. “In my opinion, it is revenge from God for the beloved prophet,” he added, alluding to the film.
Some praised the post, but others condemned it.
“God, shake the earth under their feet,” read one comment, prompting the response: “We have brothers and friends in America – I don’t wish them any harm.”
In Saudi Arabia, prominent cleric Salman al-Audah said the storm, which killed more than 140 people, was a wake-up call for Americans to convert to Islam.