Kazem Seddiqi ( fa, کاظم صدیقی, born 4 March 1951, sometimes with the honorific
Ayatollah, and surname anglicised as Sedighi) is an Iranian
Shia scholar and
Mujtahid
''Ijtihad'' ( ; ar, اجتهاد ', ; lit. physical or mental ''effort'') is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a le ...
currently serving as
Tehran's
Friday Prayer
In Islam, Friday prayer or Congregational prayer ( ar, صَلَاة ٱلْجُمُعَة, ') is a prayer ('' ṣalāt'') that Muslims hold every Friday, after noon instead of the Zuhr prayer. Muslims ordinarily pray five times each day according ...
Temporary Imam. A rival of
President Ahmadinejad, Seddiqi was appointed as interim
Friday prayers leader for Tehran by
Ayatollah Khamenei in 1 August 2009. ''The New York Times'' characterized the appointment as part of an effort to "reinforce
hamenei'sauthority by cultivating divisions between factions" following the controversial
June presidential election.
Among the targets of criticism in Seddiqi's khutbahs have been "certain regional countries for `supporting` the leader of the
Jundallah terrorist group,
Abdolmalek Rigi
Abdolmalek Rigi ( ; also spelt ''Abdul-Malek Rigi'' or ''Abdulmalik Rigi'') ( bal, عبدالمالک ریگی) ( – 20 June 2010) was the leader of Jundallah, a terrorist group based in the Sistan and Balochistan Province of southeast Iran. ...
", the
United States President
Barack Obama for showing his "ugly face" by preparing a new slate of sanctions against Iran, and women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously, which Seddiqi claims causes earthquakes to occur. In response to the latter statement, hundreds of thousands of women around the world, organized through social-networking sites such as
Facebook and
Twitter, declared April 26, 2010, to be "
Boobquake day", in which they all agreed to wear immodest clothing on the same day.
See also
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Seyyed Ahmad Khatami
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Seyyed Ali Akbar Aboutorabi Fard
References
External links
1951 births
Living people
Islam-related controversies
People from Abhar
Combatant Clergy Association politicians
Iranian ayatollahs
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