[Pak Daily Times] A religious scholar known as the "Father of the Taliban" has issued a fatwa urging parents to immunise their children against polio...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
and other fatal diseases, adding that vaccinations comply with Islamic law.
The edict by Maulana Samiul Haq
...the
Godfather of the Taliban,leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as
Mullah Sandwichfor his habit of having two young boys at a time...
, who heads the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary, comes more than a year after the Pak Taliban banned polio immunisation following a fake CIA vaccination programme meant to help track al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden
... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...
. The ban has led to a surge in polio cases in Pakistain that threatens worldwide efforts to eradicate the infectious crippling disease, which is also endemic in Nigeria and Afghanistan.
Taliban fighters have launched regular attacks on medical workers and security personnel resulting in at least 25 deaths since the June 2012 prohibition on inoculation. But according to a statement signed by Haq and dated October 30, parents should disregard the Death Eaters' warnings.
"According to Sharia there is no harm in using vaccines which medical experts recommend to save children against deadly diseases," the statement seen by AFP on Tuesday said. "Polio, measles, tetanus, tuberculoses... are fatal and dangerous diseases and the vaccines to save young children and pregnant women are effective and harmless. There is no reality in the doubts and suspicions being spread against these vaccines."
"Parents should give the injections and drops of these vaccines to their children," it added.
The Taliban ordered their ban in response to the CIA's recruitment of Dr Shakeel Afridi to run a fake vaccination programme in Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
, where they hoped he could obtain DNA samples that would help identify bin Laden. Afridi was tossed in the clink
You have the right to remain silent...
after US troops killed the terror chief in his home on May 2011.
Pakistain recorded 72 cases of polio this year compared to 58 for all of 2012, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said last week, with 50 coming in the lawless tribal areas along the Afghan border.
Haq's seminary has awarded Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar
... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title
Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality...
an honorary doctorate and also counts Jalaluddin Haqqani, chief of the feared Haqqani network, as a graduate.