Nearly eradicated, polio is on the rise again--and Muslims clerics are to blame.
Donald G. McNeil writes in the New York Times that Saudi officials discovered two cases of polio in the country this winter--a major concern since pilgrims flooding into Mecca for the hajj could take the communicable disease back to their home countries. What makes this situation particularly tragic--and infuriating--is that one of the cases is a five year-old Nigerian boy who has lived for several years on the outskirts of Mecca. But first, some statistics.
In 1988, polio infected people in 125 countries. That year, world health officials dedicated themselves to eliminating the disease, and by 2003 a $3 billion vaccination effort had restricted it to six countries. The disease, however, soon began spreading again, from an epicenter in northern Nigeria.
Why Nigeria? Because in 2003, Muslims clerics and local politicians blocked vaccination efforts, claiming they were an American plot to sterilize Muslim women and spread AIDS (some also maintained that the vaccine contained pork products). Last January, John Donnelly of the Boston Globe quoted a Nigerian doctor and president of the country's Supreme Council for Shari'a Law:
Just look at the Internet. There's strong proof that the US government, dating back to 35 years ago, with Kissinger and Nixon, believed that population is the most important factor for US hegemony in the world. Since they cannot rapidly increase the US population, the only way for them to dominate is to depopulate the Third World. This is the motive, as far as we are concerned.
Donnelly also spoke to a Nigerian sheik, who denounced the genocidal objectives of the United States:
How do you deal with an enemy? Muslims, we hate America. Everything is aggravated now. How can we trust this nation, especially when it helps buy the polio vaccine and then puts drops of the vaccine into our children's mouths?
Last summer, health officials finally convinced Nigeria Muslim leaders to accept a vaccine made in Indonesia. But the damage caused by this conspiratorial ignorance was done: the AP reported last January that Nigeria had 763 cases of polio in 2004, versus 355 in 2003. The story adds,
the Nigerian-rooted virus spread to neighbor countries including Benin, Chad and Cameroon. It also was exported further afield, to Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Togo and even Saudi Arabia.
Now the Times reports that the disease has also appeared in the Sudan, Pakistan, northern India, Afghanistan and Egypt--all Muslim areas. "It's going to take months to deal with these effects," an official from the World Health Organization has said. Indeed. Once again the Muslim Redoubt--that intransigent grandiosity that would sacrifice the innocent on the altar of cultural purity has claimed additional victims. Multiculturalists, self-loathing Westeners and European appeasers take note.
The case of the pour child is very tragic
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