It took four years, but finally someone said it

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/15/wquake15.xml


Preaching from the ruins of his once beautiful mosque, the Mullah of Battal offered a simple answer to the question posed time and again since the Pakistan earthquake: why?

''Allah has sent this great punishment on account of our misdeeds," he said, jabbing a finger at the open sky. "We must now end our rebellion against the orders of Allah and submit ourselves again to his ways."