#MyJihad in Pakistan: Jihadis murder two more polio workers with roadside bomb

This was the third jihad attack this week against polio workers. And it's no wonder: last summer, a Pakistani Muslim cleric said that polio vaccinations were un-Islamic. More recently, the Taliban was murdering people who were administering the polio vaccine in Pakistan. And the quest for Islamic purity continues.

"Roadside bomb kills 2 polio workers in NW Pakistan," by Hussain Afzal for the Associated Press, January 30 (thanks to Kenneth):

PARACHINAR, Pakistan — A roadside bomb killed two Pakistani polio workers on their way to vaccinate children in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border on Thursday, an official said.
The two men were on their way to Malikhel village as part of the U.N.-backed anti-polio campaign when the bomb hit their motorcycle, said government administrator Yousuf Rahim.

The attack - the third this week against polio workers in Pakistan - took place in the Kurram region, a known militant stronghold.

On Tuesday, gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a policeman protecting a polio team in Gullu Dheri village of Swabi district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The polio workers escaped unharmed in that attack.

In a separate incident in the northwest on Tuesday, a man wounded a polio worker with an axe.

Rahim said it was not immediately clear if the two workers killed Thursday were the actual target of the bombing. Javed Husain, a doctor at a hospital in the town of Parachinar, said the slain men were working as contractors for the government-run anti-polio program in the area.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks but suspicion fell on Islamic militants.

Some of the militants oppose the vaccination campaign, accuse health workers of acting as spies for the U.S. and claim the polio vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile.

Pakistan is one of only three countries where the crippling disease is endemic. The virus usually infects children living in unsanitary conditions; it attacks the nerves and can kill or paralyze. As many as 56 polio cases were reported in Pakistan during 2012, down from 190 the previous year, according to the United Nations.

Most of the new cases in Pakistan were in the northwest, where the presence of militants makes it difficult to reach children.

In December, gunmen killed nine polio workers in similar attacks across Pakistan, prompting authorities to suspend the vaccination campaign in the troubled areas. The U.N. also suspended its field operations in December as a result of the attacks, though it has since resumed some activities.

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Softly Bob | January 31, 2013 9:27 AM | Reply

Why do we in the West bother? We're only trying to help them at cost to ourselves. Let them all catch polio, if that's what they want. We're all unclean to them anyway, and damned to hell. I'm sure that their far superior god, Allah can cure their illnesses, after all they are favored by him and we aren't.
I'm sure if there was any truth in Islam, they'd be fit and healthy and we infidels would be crippled with all sorts of illnesses, but of course this isn't the case.
If Muslims are too stupid and too hateful to realise that Allah has let them down and isn't worthy of their worship then that's their own problem!

SaleemSmith | January 31, 2013 9:37 AM | Reply

Unlike most other religions, Islam does not teach The Golden Rule. Islam primarily teaches obedience to authority. That is obedience to the authority of the Qur'an, hadith and sira. And of course Sharia law is the product of devout and learned Islamic scholars earnestly pouring over the Qur'an, hadith and sira.

We ex-Muslims living with Islam's formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that the cruel cult of Mohammedanism is a fraud.

From ex-Muslim Abul Kasem:

The Root of Terrorism a la Islamic style, Chapter 1

Introduction

The world is fast becoming accustomed to the term 'Islamic Terror.' It is a new genre of global terrorism. Thanks to the Jihadists, Suicide Bombers, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaishe Muhammad, Islamists, Mullahs, Maulanas, Pirs, Hijabi Women-Islam today, dominates virtually every News Media of every continent. Sooner or later, the term 'Islamic Terror' may find a place in the English lexicon. With such a plethora of Islamic awareness, the question is: Is Terror a la Islamic fashion is something new or is it a product of the early Jihadists' zeal as taught and practiced by Muhammad? Ask any Islamist/Islamic apologist this question and the pithy answer will, most likely be something like: Islam is peaceful, it never advocates violence, the least of all, 'Terrorism' using Islam; Osama bin Ladin and his Jihadists who have hijacked Islam are not true Muslims, the suicide bombers do not represent the true teachings of Islam - and so on and so forth.

In this detailed article, by exposing the 'true' nature of what Islam is all about, I would like to demolish the above paradigm of the Islamists. Since Islam is firmly rooted in the past, in order to find the root cause/s of the present 'mayhem' by the Islamic fighters, we must analyse the past deeds, actions, philosophical and theological attitudes of the early Jihadists under the leadership of none but Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah. As we proceed, we must, first of all, realise that there is no such thing as the 'moderate Islam,' 'current Islam' or the 'future Islam.' It is the past-the actions of millennium ago that propelled all Muslims of yesterday, haunts and impels all the Muslims of to-day and will continue doing so to-morrow. We must look back, and not forward, to find out the truth about Islam. Just as a tree sustains its life and continues its growth because of its roots that are firmly anchored underground-beyond the ocular visibility, so is Islam. Terrorism is firmly rooted in the very 'lofty' doctrine of an Islamic world visioned by Muhammad. This use of terror tactic is nothing new in Islam; it was the lifeblood through which Muhammad forced his concept of a unipolar world, devoted only to one Semitic God, Allah. In this lengthy treatise, I have chronicled all the events of terror, murder, deceit, lies, intrigue and warfare that had been used to nurture, advance and propagate the very essence of Islam: accept Islam, pay protection money (Jizya) or die. Many readers will be shocked and surprised at the contents of this dissertation and will shake their heads in utter disbelief. Most Muslims will be agitated, angry, frustrated and will surely go on a complete denial mode. To all these readers I would like to say that I, too, went through the same phase. As I took Islam very seriously during my formative years, I started to understand fully its doctrine and its life force, I could not believe that a man who claimed to be the messenger of Allah could ever indulge himself, as well as instruct his followers in mindless murder, loot, plunder, torture and unbound lasciviousness. As you read episodes after episodes of the early terrorism of Islam, you will find eerie similarities with the modern day global terrorism as perpetrated by the Jihadists of today. You will, for sure, discover that all the ingredients of terrorist operations are present, as they were millennium ago; it is, as if, to use the infidel language, the 'reincarnation' (or resurrection) of the past Islamic terrorists. These ingredients are/were:

Persecution and the killing of the unbelievers

Plunder and ethnic cleansing

Political assassination and revenge killing

Gratuitous murder and unabated genocide

Property grab and extreme lasciviousness

Forced conversion/Jizya

Sectarian persecution (destruction of mosques)

Let us now delve into early Islamic history and find out how and why the early Jiahadists did what they did.

http://www.islam-watch.org/AbulKasem/RootsTerrorism/RootsTerrorism0.htm

duh_swami | January 31, 2013 9:42 AM | Reply

These people are so paranoid and stupid...Is polio halal? Is it something Allah approves of and want's for his Abdullah's? If that's the case, they should go out of their way to get infected...Murdering anyone trying to prevent polio then, is holy jihad...fighting in the cause of Allah...Free polio for everyone...Ain't Islam swell......

fitna | January 31, 2013 9:59 AM | Reply

By now the West should have the common sense to know that we should let the Islamic world implode under it's own stupidity and psychoses.

We should pull out all western technology and aid until they agree to radically reform Islam and rip out all the verses in the Quran that preach hatred and violence towards non-muslims.

But that would be like expecting a leopard to change it's spots. It won't happen so we should focus on encouraging a demise of their populations.

As Michael Savage once starkly put it, "muslims are trying to kill millions of us, what do you prefer, that millions of us die or millions of them die??"

Rarely do we talk openly about culling populations but we really ought to consider it. We know what Islam means to non-muslims, we know what muslims would do if they outnumber us, we see what they do to other non-muslims, this is a massive war we're in against them. The majority of them think like Osama bin Laden.

When we fought the Soviet Union, we knew we couldn't wage a nuclear war because it'd mean our annihilation also, but we still made a plan for their destruction, we created the arms race to bankrupt them and it was wildly successful.

We have little to fear from nuclear weapons from Islamic nations since ours are much more advanced and we can seize Pakistan's nukes if the will was there.

There are non-violent ways to destroy Islam too-Hindus in India refuse to rent to muslims or offer them jobs unless they're menial. In the end it reduced much of the muslim population to penury and destitution.

There are many creative solutions to dealing with Islam, we just have to vote in leaders that will take action.

Buraq | January 31, 2013 10:48 AM | Reply

Jihadis murder two more polio workers with roadside bomb.

One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.
(John Lennon)

And boy oh boy, Islam is crippled.

Guy Macher | January 31, 2013 2:20 PM | Reply

The trouble with withdrawing our medical expertise from the Islamic hellholes is that Muslims bring their diseases with them to civilization.

Guy Macher | January 31, 2013 2:22 PM | Reply

The trouble with withdrawing our medical expertise from the Islamic hellholes is that Muslims bring their diseases with them to civilization.

fitna replied to comment from Guy Macher | January 31, 2013 8:11 PM | Reply

Obviously we'd ban muslims from entering our civilization to keep their diseases in their countries.

Hopefully with their bad hygiene they'll wipe themselves out from pandemics. If not from pathogens, certain the virus of Islam will eventually do them in.

exsgtbrown replied to comment from duh_swami | February 1, 2013 7:30 AM | Reply

Murdering anyone trying to prevent polio then, is holy jihad

Islam makes a living by creating victims...

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