It’s not just in Afghanistan: a Pakistani Muslim cleric has said that polio vaccinations are un-Islamic. And in Nigeria, a Muslim cleric was arrested for playing a role in sparking the murders of polio workers.
“Five Afghan polio vaccinators shot dead,” AFP, June 15, 2021:
JALALABAD, Afghanistan: At least five polio workers were shot dead in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday, officials said, in the area’s second attacks on vaccinators in less than three months.
The workers were gunned down in three separate locations within hours in a “coordinated attack,” Nangarhar provincial police spokesman Farid Khan said.
“This is the work of the Taliban, targeting health workers to deprive people of polio vaccines,” he said.
Health ministry spokesman Osman Taheri confirmed the attacks. The Taliban denied responsibility.
Polio has been eradicated across the world apart from Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, where distrust of vaccines and eradication campaigns is rife.
The Taliban and religious leaders often tell communities that vaccines are a Western conspiracy aimed at sterilizing Muslim children, and they also suspect immunization drives are used to spy on militant activities.
Officials say the Taliban do not allow door-to-door vaccination campaigns in areas they control.
Tuesday saw five vaccine workers killed and one wounded in a spate of attacks across Nangarhar, the local government said. Three were also wounded in the provincial capital, Jalalabad….
serialthinker2003 says
poliomyelitis
an infectious viral disease that affects the central nervous system and can cause temporary or permanent paralysis.
omg? imagine how desperate their situation poor kids left behind orphaned and paralyzed
GFF says
jihadwatch.org/2021/06/italy-nearly-1300-muslim-migrants-arrive-on-island-of-lampedusa
Makes you wonder what they have in their knapsacks.
Mike says
keep the people un educated this is what the world gets
Raja says
Inside the minds of Muslims, “the best of peoples” : the West is evil, Jew is evil, all Kufar is dirty and evil only Muslims are good. Having unleashed covid on the hapless Muslims, they are now sterilizing us !
There cannot be any other mindset worse than this, that of extreme paranoia. I didn’t know that even a god can brainwash his people to such atrocious levels !.
Infidel says
Why don’t they reject Chinavirus vaccines just as readily? Particularly the ones from China?
notnolib says
Truth be told, both polio vaccines were developed by Jewish doctors (Salk and Sabin). I would advise all muslims to avoid that filth at all cost!!
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Muslims murder polio workers amid claims vaccine is Western conspiracy to sterilize Muslim children
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These poor health workers.
And these horrors are nothing new.
God, I hate Islam.
Keith O says
GI, I reckon all the health workers should be protected, by pulling them all out of Jihadi areas.
Then let nature take it’s course.
Might sound harsh, but I believe it would have the effect of encouraging a lot of them to treat the workers with a bit more respect for trying to help them.
Of course, if it doesn’t, then the numbers of potential terrorist will be thinned out by mother nature.
Ruislamicky? says
Guys I’m going to say it we have to wake up
. Islamicy is homosexual. Do you want to come back? Repent of homosexuality and all it entails.
gravenimage says
*Very* strange stuff. Muslims are not murdering polio workers because they are–in your mind–homosexual.
If this were the case, then doctors in San Francisco, Miami Beach, and Fire Island would be in danger–and obviously they are not.
Susanne says
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/polio-cases-now-caused-vaccine-wild-virus-67287290
Killing the vaccine worker is extreme, but getting rid of them might be reasonable. The polio vaccine can cause polio. Also, vaccines have been used to sterilise young girls in Kenya. The idea is not that crazy.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/polio-cases-now-caused-vaccine-wild-virus-67287290
gravenimage says
Polio used to be scourge all over the world–with the vaccine, it is now very rare, and only found in places like Afghanistan where polio workers are murdered.
If, as this poster wants to see, all polio workers were wiped out, the disease would come flooding back.
Dawne says
Well, it’s no loss if they all die of Polio.
gravenimage says
Muslims rarely live in complete isolation. Diseases spread to others.