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2012-06-19 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2012-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top
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#1 Polio, once a dreaded disease, has essentially been eradicated in the civilized world. Sadly and pointlessly, it is still endemic in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Northern Nigeria. It is left as an exercise for the Reader to determine why.

Posted by SteveS 2012-06-19 01:07|| 2012-06-19 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes! Similar to the organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA, and Bush-hitler's anti-HIV campaign in Africa, polio vaccines are CIA sponsored and should be avoided by the devout.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-06-19 06:37|| 2012-06-19 06:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Besoeker, is it just the polio vaccines that are haram or should all vaccines be considered in-Islamic? And if vaccines are forbidden, shouldn't antibiotics also be banned?

Posted by Glenmore 2012-06-19 07:20|| 2012-06-19 07:20|| Front Page Top

#4 I can remember the pre-polio vaccine world and what it was like. Just about everyone knew someone who lived close by or was in your family who had polio. It seemed like it hit the young more than adults for some reason. Parents were afraid for their children because they did not know how to protect them. There was a generation of kids running around with leg braces because of paralysis. One of our presidents, FDR had polio. I remember a very promising, bright kid down the street who got polio. He was confined to an "Iron Lung" because he could not breathe on his own. It is difficult to imagine parents who would reject vaccinations when it is so readily available and preventive of a terrible scourge.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-06-19 09:50|| 2012-06-19 09:50|| Front Page Top

#5 It is difficult to imagine parents who would reject vaccinations when it is so readily available and preventive of a terrible scourge. It's not one bit difficult for me to imagine people like that, not after reading about modern Islam & Pakistain.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-06-19 10:18|| 2012-06-19 10:18|| Front Page Top

#6 JQC, I'm also of an age to remember leg braces and the March of Dimes.

In middle school one of the kids had a brace and he was the baddest ass kid in the school. My leg brace wearing 8th grade science teacher? He was the baddest ass in the whole damn school!

I was brought up to believe that this was compensation for the disability. Didn't matter why but they both had "DO NOT MESS WITH" signs in blinking neon.

Posted by AlanC 2012-06-19 11:15|| 2012-06-19 11:15|| Front Page Top

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