Clerics make Muslims a host for parasites and disease

Strategy Page:

Radical Islam continues to kill people in places you never hear of. Islamic clerics in Pakistan and Nigeria continue to push the idea that vaccinations for diseases are a Western plot to poison Moslem children. This particular fantasy has been rattling around for nearly a decade, and has prevented the UN from wiping out polio. Like small pox (which was wiped out in the 1970s), once there are no people with polio, the disease is gone for good (it can only survive in a human host). The Islamic clerics urging parents not to vaccinate their children against polio, are providing the disease with hosts, and keeping it going. Last year, 24,000 children were not vaccinated in northern Pakistan because of this paranoid fantasy.

In Afghanistan, it was even worse, with 125,000 children denied vaccination by Taliban terrorists (who also attack the vaccination teams) As a result, at least 40 cases of polio were confirmed last year in Pakistan, and eleven so far this year. In Afghanistan, there were 31 cases last year, and 19 so far this year. Nigeria had 1,124 cases last year, and 562 cases so far this year.

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They use the god's will excuse when the disease strikes and cripples or kills its victims. I have made the analogy before to al Qaeda as a parasitic organization and I think this story only confirms that judgment. It looks like professional courtesy from one parasite to another.