What event, devised by Jennifer McCreight, took place on 26 April 2010 in response to reports that Hojatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi, Friday Prayer Leader for Tehran in Iran, had blamed earthquakes on women who dress immodestly?
Boobquake Iran", and suggested that women participate in both events. McCreight herself subsequently observed that some atheists acted misogynistically towards her and other women, partly in reaction to the joke in Boobquake's name, and she has called for a greater respect for feminism and a more welcoming culture in the atheism movement. Boobquake Boobquake was a rally which took place on April 26, 2010. The rally served to protest news reports of controversial beliefs espoused by Hojatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi, an Islamic religious authority in Iran. Seddiqi blamed women who dress immodestly for causing earthquakes. On April 19, it was reported that
Kazem Seddiqi Kazem Seddiqi Kazem Seddiqi (, born 4 March 1951, sometimes with the honorific Hojatoleslam, or Hujjat al-Islam, "authority of Islam", and surname anglicised as Sedighi) is an Iranian scholar and Mujtahid currently serving as Tehran's Friday Prayer Temporary Imam. A rival of President Ahmadinejad, Seddiqi was appointed as interim Friday prayers leader for Tehran by Ayatollah Khamenei in August 2009. "The New York Times" characterized the appointment as part of an effort to "reinforce [Khamenei's] authority 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