We have seen this many times in the past. Eight polio workers were murdered in Afghanistan in February 2022. 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. The polio vaccine is often seen as a Western infidel conspiracy to sterilize Muslim children.
This is why the best word for the people who did this is “Muslim,” because they were motivated and guided by Islamic beliefs and attendant assumptions to kill these polio workers.
“Polio vaccination team attacked in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunwa; 4 dead,” Times Now News, September 10, 2022:
Lahore: A polio vaccination crew was shot at by unidentified terrorists on Friday in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Due to this, 4 policemen posted in the security of the polio team were killed and two were injured.
Officials said the incident took place in the Gul Iman area of Tank district. A police van carrying a door-to-door polio immunisation team was attacked by the assailants.
In many areas of Pakistan, people are against polio vaccination. They believe that polio drops cause infertility in people. Although the government has been trying to explain to people that this campaign is for their own safety.
Locals said that an exchange of fire between the police and the attackers continued for a long time. No group has formally taken responsibility for the attack as of yet….
Infidel says
The reason that polio is making a comeback here is that we have not blocked the entry of Pakis into this country, despite them not being innoculated against this disease. As always, America last for this bunch!
PMK says
Fortunately, we still vaccinate our own children against polio, so probably the only danger is in immigrant communities Most Americans were vaccinated as children and retain immunity into adulthood. We still take care of our own.
tim gallagher says
Since islam is a load of primitive, backward garbage, a throwback which tries to stop civilised progress in so many different ways, I’m not surprised that the more hardline Muslims would consider a wonderful scientific achievement such as a vaccine against polio as something to be prevented. islam needs to go the way of the dodo and stop holding human progress back in the evil way that it continually does.
PMK says
And yet we managed to eliminate smallpox globally. But of course that was during the Cold War. At that time Pakistan was a Western ally.
tim gallagher says
Well, that’s true, PMK. I’m sure that most Muslims would be all for vaccinating against polio, smallpox, etc. It would only be the really hardline, really backward Muslims, and there seem to be quite a lot in Pakistan (I could imagine the taliban in Afghanistan would prevent vaccinations – it seems like possibly the sort of primitive thing they might do), who would behave like the scum in this report. Islam is backward in so many aspects of human life, so it has honour killings, child brides, etc.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslims attack polio vaccination team, four dead
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Jihad against preventing childhood crippling and death.
God, I hate islam.
NoLibsWelcomeHere says
I would like to remind the muslims (including the terrorists at the terror organization CAIR) that the polio vaccines were created by pesky jooooooooooos.
allahu’s snackbar!! The place for all your pork needs!
ten03@optonline.net says
The greatest threat to Muslim women (and now Muslim children) is Islam.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.