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2007-08-19 India-Pakistan

Iodine deficiency affecting children in northwest Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2007-08-19 09:32|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Headline should have read: "Unconvinced by facts, unwilling to change age-old beliefs" That's the major problem in Pakistan.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-08-19 11:25|| 2007-08-19 11:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Many people believe that this salt is a means of preventing reproduction and is being distributed as part of a Western conspiracy to stop the growth of the Muslim population

god forbid...breeding like friggin rats, then complaining there isn't enough room/free food/jobs.....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-08-19 12:15|| 2007-08-19 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The idea that iodine can prevent iodine deficiency is a plot by Crusaders and Jews to impurify the precious bodily essences of Muslims. No doubt, the element itself was discovered by Jews. Joos, Jooos, Joooos, I tell you!

Posted by SteveS 2007-08-19 12:23|| 2007-08-19 12:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Until such time as they recognize its value, at which point it was Islamic science that knew it all along.

Posted by lotp 2007-08-19 12:33|| 2007-08-19 12:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Many people believe that this salt is a means of preventing reproduction and is being distributed as part of a Western conspiracy to stop the growth of the Muslim population

On to us. I knew this would happen, it was so damn obvious, I said in the Water, in the Water, but noooooo we gotta try the salt angle. Still good reports from the Polio Vaccine front.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-08-19 12:47|| 2007-08-19 12:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Hmm. Pakistan. North. West-Oh. THEM.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-08-19 14:18|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-08-19 14:18|| Front Page Top

#7 "Many people believe that this salt is a means of preventing reproduction and is being distributed as part of a Western conspiracy to stop the growth of the Muslim population," said Dr Zafar.

We only wish that the polio vaccine and iodized salt were secret involuntary birth control menthods. Instead, the usual Islamic Idiocy transcends our own limited expectations and outdoes even itself for utter opacity.

Between Pashtoons leaving their wimmen folk to freeze in the winter highlands while the Brave Lions of Islam go downslope to get earthquake aid, the polio vaccine scare and now this ... IODIZED SALT ... fer cripes sakes ... I no longer have the least sympathy for these maroons.

Pakistan is essentially an advanced form of what Palestinians would be like with their own nation after a few decades. Just like the Palestinians, I no longer feel the least twinge of sypmathy for their combined sufferings. My only regret is that this sort of terminal stupidity simply cannot kill off these willfully ignorant cretins fast enough.

Muslims deserve Islam and all its attendant woes. When they finally learn to shrug off the chains of intolerance and unenlightenment, only then will some sort of relief begin. Until then, the West's only obligation is to sit back and quietly watch them sink into the mire of their own Islamic cesspits and squash whomever tries to come our way.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-19 15:17|| 2007-08-19 15:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Ah, some of that ole, special zenster-love. Niiice and spot-on.

Posted by Brett 2007-08-19 15:31|| 2007-08-19 15:31|| Front Page Top

#9 More muslim transference, telegraphing what muslims would do when and if they ever get on top.

Posted by ed 2007-08-19 16:00|| 2007-08-19 16:00|| Front Page Top

#10 More muslim transference, telegraphing what muslims would do when and if they ever get on top.

Word, ed. I had dinner with woman lst night who simply refused to accept that one culture could be superior to another. She kept insisting that other cultures also thought that they were the best just as I was asserting that America's was the best. I tried to point out how ours promotes actual freedom while so many others, especially Islamic ones, do the exact opposite. Even confronted with how the vast majority of this world's population wants to immigrate to America, she could not bring herself to admit that such a thing was a frank admission of American culture's superiority.

I politiely pointed out how us having dinner together while she was unescorted by a male relative would get us lashes for adultery in Saudi Arabia, not to mention how her revealing outfit would do the same as well. I even noted how women especially would die in droves under a global caliphate as they would only be able to see extremely scarce female doctors. She countered with the usual tired old memes of how America should not go around trying to export democracy and "sticking our nose where it doesn't belong." She insisted that people in Islamic countries need to rise up for themselves.

I tried to point out how those people often face heavily armed militaries and an elite clerical aristocracy who has not the least interest in their freedom and, in fact, sees democracy with its manmade laws as a direct affront to shari'a law. I'm hoping that a tiny bit of this leaked through. She's a seasoned traveller and runs her own business, so there's a slight hope. I light of how she is a black woman, I really need to inform her of how Islam treats black Muslims, but that will have to wait for another time.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-19 16:33|| 2007-08-19 16:33|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL Legion!

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-08-19 16:36|| 2007-08-19 16:36|| Front Page Top

#12 When it rains, it pours.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-08-19 16:50|| 2007-08-19 16:50|| Front Page Top

#13 "...if a child is ill or a woman suffers ..., that is G*d's will."

Simply pathetic! These cretins are a parody of human beings.

Posted by Neville Phereng4211 2007-08-19 18:10|| 2007-08-19 18:10|| Front Page Top

#14 Zen, continue on enlightening her, believe me, it eventually gets through (or else she's as dumb as a brick and will never "get it.").

I've done the same to many black older generation people at my work (Federal Gov't Agency). When I can't get through to them about Mike Vick, I usually enlighten them about world events (usually involving attacks by Islam) and they are utterly amazed at how much we *don't* hear by the MSM. Most of them keep an open mind about it and are beginning to see the cancer that is Islam.

This belief, which exists not only in the NWFP but also in many parts of Pakistans populous Punjab Province, is similar to misconceptions surrounding the oral polio vaccine, and also fortified flour, the marketing of which has begun in some parts of the country.

This one quote gives me hope that we'll win this WAR one way or another. Either we take them out wholesale (if needed) by military/diplo actions, or they will *eventually* kill themselves by being the world's first wholesale religious group worthy of the Darwin Award of the Century. As a Christian, I still have hope that they can be converted and/or saved on a physical level. As a human, though, anyone who just chalks up kids' deaths and sufferings as Allan's will is beyond my sympathy.

As if 9/11 weren't bad enough (attacking adult civilians), I learned *all* I needed to know about Islam in that school "seige" in Beslan. That attack alone turned the tide for me, and I say "Full Steam Ahead" in taking out Islamic gov'ts and especially "holy men" like these.

Posted by BA 2007-08-19 20:13|| 2007-08-19 20:13|| Front Page Top

#15 I've done the same to many black older generation people at my work (Federal Gov't Agency). When I can't get through to them about Mike Vick, I usually enlighten them about world events (usually involving attacks by Islam) and they are utterly amazed at how much we *don't* hear by the MSM.

You've got it, BA. I own a white wolf-hybrid (named, Zen). So often black kids (and even white kids as well) are utterly terrified of my slightly aggressive but totally friendly animal.

After shopping at my local Supermercado, I exited the store, untied Zen, and headed towards my car. At every opportunity, I make sure kids always have a chance to positively interact with Zen. He loves children and sucks up their attention like the strokes-monster he is.

Outside of the store it was truly discouraging to see a family of kids almost run in terror from Zen, except for the eldest child. He hung back and gave Zen all sorts of strokes while I talked to the child's father about pets and animals. It was so refreshing to hear a responsible black man, on his own, bring up how evil Vick's dog fighting crap was and then also encourage his other terrified children to come and pet Zen. Sadly, few of them would, but his eldest son hung out and gave Zen all sorts of strokes to help prove the rest of them wrong.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-19 20:32|| 2007-08-19 20:32|| Front Page Top

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