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The Great Polio Comeback- courtesy of Islam |
2013-06-02 |
The polio disease was on the verge of eradication when Ibrahim Datti Ahmed, president of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria and a physician, suggested at about this time in 2003 that the vaccination program in his country was part of a Western conspiracy to render Muslim children infertile. His call for an end to the polio immunization campaign touched a nerve and spread to other Muslim religious leaders in Nigeria, causing the vaccination process to slow down and incidences of the disease to pick up...So closely connected have Islam and polio become that the Muslim-only pilgrimage to Mecca became a major mechanism of transmitting the disease to faraway places like Indonesia. By now, Ahmed's paranoia has sent the new wave of polio from Nigeria to Muslim populations in at least 17 other African countries and 6 Asian countries: Africa: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, and Togo. Asia: Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Comments: (1) A single conspiracy-obsessed Islamist, equipped with an organization and credentials, has caused polio not to be eradicated but instead to win a new lease on life. (2) Thus has radical Islam brought misery to another aspect of human life -- and made fellow Muslims its principal victims. (June 1, 2013) |
Posted by:lord garth |
#9 Gorb - that would only work if we don't allow people from place which allow it to spread. And I mean ***ALL*** people. And I don't have a problem with that. |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-06-02 20:39 |
#8 Iron lung beems. |
Posted by: Shipman 2013-06-02 16:45 |
#7 Kaboom wheelchairs? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-06-02 15:04 |
#6 Frank: yep. In the same class as "Wakefield's Measles." |
Posted by: RandomJD 2013-06-02 14:39 |
#5 Here's a true "crime against humanity," up there with producing, storing, transporting or deploying chemical / biological weapons. But from the usual self-appointed squawkers, not even *crickets* |
Posted by: Spomoper Jeating8209 2013-06-02 14:13 |
#4 we should change the name (kinda like "Spanish Flu") to "Allah's Polio™" |
Posted by: Frank G 2013-06-02 13:51 |
#3 We have our own anti vaccination crowd in this country as well No denying we have our own crop of idiots, but one minor difference is we don't kill nurses passing out vaccine. |
Posted by: SteveS 2013-06-02 13:41 |
#2 OK, so keep vaccinating the rest of the planet. Works for me. |
Posted by: gorb 2013-06-02 12:16 |
#1 We have our own anti vaccination crowd in this country as well, we just use celebrities rather than Imams to spread the luddism. google - anti vaccination celebrities |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-06-02 12:00 |