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This article is another in a series of several stories that have appeared over the years about vitamin D deficiencies brought on by Islamic prescriptions for veiling. And the problem is not limited to "cold climates."
"Ireland too grey for the burqa," by Colin Gleeson for the Times Online, December 28:
Muslim women who wear the burqa in Ireland are at increased risk of pelvic fractures during childbirth because of vitamin D deficiency due to a lack of sunlight, a consultant warns.
Babies born to women with vitamin D deficiency are also more prone to seizures in their first week of life, according to Dr Miriam Casey, of the Osteoporosis Unit in St James’s hospital in Dublin.
A burqa is an enveloping outer garment worn by some Muslim women. In hot countries, enough sunlight gets through to give them sufficient vitamin D, but this may not happen in countries where there is limited sunshine, such as Ireland and Britain.
Casey said she was aware of cases involving pelvic fractures, and warned that these could become more frequent as Ireland’s Muslim population increased. “Ireland’s temperate climate doesn’t have the intense sunlight that keeps burqa-clad women from becoming vitamin D-deficient in their own countries,” she said.
Vitamin D helps the body to absorb calcium and is crucial for making bones strong. The greatest source is sunlight.
Casey said the fractures occur at sites of particular weakness which develop in under-mineralised pelvic bones. In these women's babies, low calcium can cause “serious complications such as seizures, growth retardation, muscle weakness and fractures”.
“As a toddler, carrying the weight of the torso can force the development of a bow-legged appearance and a waddling gait,” she said. “Later, there can be rickets, which is caused by vitamin D deficiency, with swollen wrists and bones that fail to fuse in adolescence.”
Darker skins can produce as little as 1% of the vitamin D that fair skins produce. Moreover, studies have found that the rate of many diseases rises the further north one moves, leading researchers to suspect that vitamin D may play a greater role in health than previously thought.
Casey said: “As we see a rise in the number of Muslims in Ireland, it’s going to become a massive problem. It’s worse in England whose Muslim community is older. There are already problems in the Rotunda [a maternity hospital in Dublin] and the paediatric hospitals.”
A spokeswoman for the Islamic community in Ireland said she was unaware of health problems suffered by women wearing burqas.
Last year, Muslim women in the UK were warned that wearing the hijab could cause poor health for them and their babies. A UK government spokesman said: “We are not interfering in a Muslim woman’s right to wear the hijab, but we are stressing that we all need sunlight on our skins.”
Posted by Marisol at December 28, 2008 12:02 AM
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Last year, Muslim women in the UK were warned that wearing the hijab could cause poor health for them and their babies.A UK government spokesman said: “We are not interfering in a Muslim woman’s right to wear the hijab, but we are stressing that we all need sunlight on our skins.”
Thanks, Doc. Whistlin' in the wind, again.
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at December 28, 2008 12:55 AM
"A spokeswoman for the Islamic community in Ireland said she was unaware of health problems suffered by women wearing burqas."
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Sure. We all know that allah (that imaginary fantasy) would never allow its brain-dead followers to lack vitamin D.
On the other hand, unhealthier jihadist-breeders means that the jihadists they spawn stand a higher chance of being unhealthier themselves. It's a win-win situation for those of us who will forever reject allah and the desert rat that invented it.
Posted by: Proud_Kafir7908 at December 28, 2008 4:01 AM
The more they look like Gollum under their mobile tents, the better.
Posted by: Proud_Kafir7908 at December 28, 2008 5:31 AM
On second thought, just imagine what burden each of those 18-plus-member families of slaves of allah could become on British dhimmi taxpayers' shoulders when they start getting even more jizyah in the form of free health care for their ailments (especially if we consider the fact that they only take away from, and contribute nothing to public health-care in the dhimmi nations that allow them to get away with that.)
Posted by: Proud_Kafir7908 at December 28, 2008 7:23 AM
Taking 1000 international units of the vitamin D daily could lower an individual's cancer risk by 50-per cent, they said. Cardio Cocktail contains 5000 mg of vitamin D3 per ounce.
at December 28, 2008 10:35 AM
Use of Burqa is associated with;
Vita D deficiency
Calcium def.
Increased prevalence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Increased prevalence of skin diseases
Higher Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)
and many other risks and problems.
Students of Modern Medicine and sociologists are taught way back even before 1970s.In 2008/9 ,why this backwardness and indifference to women.
Its a wonder to observe the inactivity of World Health Organization (WHO) in this. Not seen any proactive programme of WHO to prevent.
Can anyone really rely on the statistics and data that the Muslim countries provide in their closed societies to WHO ?
Isn't there real waste of human effort and money ?.
Posted by: Kash225 at December 28, 2008 11:42 AM
Keep Muslims out of Ireland and they won't have this problem.
Worked with snakes.
Posted by: profitsbeard at December 28, 2008 5:35 PM
Last year, Muslim women in the UK were warned that wearing the hijab could cause poor health for them and their babies.
They mean burqa, no?
Worked with snakes.
I love that!
at December 29, 2008 6:29 AM
In 2007, a study in the UAE of 198 women wearing traditional Islamic attire showed that 196 of them (99%) were Vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D deficiency causes Rickets, exacerbates diabetes, can cause schizophrenia, and more. Women who are Vitamin D deficient and give birth are more likely to have babies who develop diabetes, schizophrenia, and more later on in life. Vitamin D also helps fight various cancers (so being deficient is a Bad Thing).
Now then, if Allah in the Quran commands women to draw their veils about their entire bodies (wear a burqa), then: 1) Allah is an idiot and is not the all-knowing creator of the Universe because he doesn't know he created human bodies to need sunlight, or 2) Allah is a misogynist.
I suspect non-Muslims will say "1" and Muslims will say "2" ...
at December 29, 2008 6:24 PM
Gunga Din Agha
Just because you keep REPEATING REPEATING REPEATING your lies doesn't make them any more true.
We do NOT want †urqy in the EU.
We do NOT want islam in EUROPE.
BASTA.
Posted by: Ummah Gummah at December 30, 2008 3:10 AM
“As a toddler, carrying the weight of the torso can force the development of a bow-legged appearance and a waddling gait,”
Hahahahahaha! That is why I see all those burqa women in my country waddling aswel xD Hahahahahaha! Duhuh! xD
Other then that, if they have health problems then it is their own stupid fault.
Maybe the state should sue islam or the muslim husbands for the bad health of the women. Because that is what the state would do if a non muslim spouse is abusing his wife.
at January 3, 2009 10:30 AM
"We do NOT want †urqy in the EU."
Posted by: Ummah Gummah
The Secular (= Smart and developed) Turks DON'T EVEN WANT to be in EU. They know that first of all their economy needs to be much stronger and all anti-secular movements such as akp need to be banned. And human rights need to be improved.
They knów all of this, sadly their government (akp) are wolves in sheeps clothing and are busy destroying Türkiye's secular character.
at January 3, 2009 11:17 AM
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