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New York Times notes polio’s return, doesn’t dare explain why

May 8, 2014 9:36 pm By Robert Spencer

polio burqasA Pakistani Muslim cleric has said that polio vaccinations are un-Islamic. And such “extremist” clerics are not just in Pakistan: in Nigeria, a Muslim cleric was arrested for playing a role in sparking the murders of polio workers. The Times does not even come close to mentioning that. Nor does it explain that polio has spread from Pakistan to Syria because jihad fighters have taken it from one to the other. The Times can’t talk about any of this, because to do so would be “Islamophobic.”

“Polio’s Return After Near Eradication Prompts a Global Health Warning,” by Donald G. McNeil, Jr., New York Times, May 5, 2014 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

Alarmed by the spread of polio to several fragile countries, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency on Monday for only the second time since regulations permitting it to do so were adopted in 2007.

Just two years ago — after a 25-year campaign that vaccinated billions of children — the paralyzing virus was near eradication; now health officials say that goal could evaporate if swift action is not taken.

Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon have recently allowed the virus to spread — to Afghanistan, Iraq and Equatorial Guinea, respectively — and should take extraordinary measures to stop it, the health organization said.

“Things are going in the wrong direction and have to get back on track before something terrible happens,” said Gregory Hartl, a W.H.O. spokesman. “So we’re saying to the Pakistanis, the Syrians and the Cameroonians, ‘You’ve really got to get your acts together.’ ”…

Good luck with that.

With 54 of this year’s 68 new infections, Pakistan is by far the riskiest country, Dr. Aylward said. Polio has never been eliminated there, Taliban factions have forbidden vaccinations in North Waziristan for years, and those elsewhere have murdered vaccine teams.

Syria has had only one confirmed case of polio this year, but it had 13 cases last October, the first in the country since 1999.

Before the uprising began in 2011, Syria had a 90 percent vaccination rate, but it fell rapidly in war-torn areas. About 300,000 children are in areas blocked off by the government or too dangerous to reach, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.

The Syrian cases from last year were of the Pakistan strain, which was found in Egypt last year, then moved into Israel, first in a largely Bedouin desert town, then elsewhere. How it reached Syria is unclear, but in April it was found in a Syrian refugee camp in Iraq, despite extensive vaccination campaigns in camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and elsewhere.

“Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to do in refugee camps,” Mr. Hartl said.

With Syrians fleeing massacres and bombings, it seems absurd to make them stop and produce vaccination cards, critics said….

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  1. veggiedog says

    May 8, 2014 at 9:40 pm

    Personally as long as it stays in Muslim nations i really don’t give a damn. Let their stupidity be their undoing.

    • joeb says

      May 9, 2014 at 4:44 am

      But they’re not staying in muslim countries. For example, tuberculosis is on the rise again in the UK, after it was eradicated in the sixties. It now has the highest level in Europe. I had an aunt who died of it in the forties in London, and that was adifferent age. But now that’s coming back.

      • Tim says

        May 10, 2014 at 12:28 am

        But you are missing the point- England is well on its way to becoming a Muslim nation.

    • patches says

      May 9, 2014 at 4:53 am

      Well Veg, we can only live in hope I guess 🙂

    • Shane says

      May 9, 2014 at 9:17 am

      The USA is exposing its citizens to many diseases and parasites that were almost non-existent in our country because we allow so many people from third world countries to immigrate into our nation. It is folly to allow hundreds of thousands of immigrants yearly from poor and Muslim countries, especially Pakistan where the disease of Jihadism is running rampant.

      Jihad Watch members should join NumbersUSA to fight for lower numbers of immigrants and to fight against Obama and the Dimocrats attempt to pass a mass amnesty for the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in the USA. Obama is not fulfilling his duty to deport any illegal alien who is found out.

      • Ice Star says

        May 9, 2014 at 1:50 pm

        I thought there were regulations on immigrants that required proof of health and vaccinations. No one who is ill or not vaccinated be allowed into our country.

        Ellis Island provided vaccinations and quarantine of immigrants.

        • veggiedog says

          May 9, 2014 at 5:35 pm

          Well this must not be since we have so many Muslims who will not allow vaccinations.

        • Atlas Shrugged says

          May 10, 2014 at 1:43 am

          Did you forget about the 20+ million that are invading the country illegally? And they don’t quarantine those with diseases anymore either that come here legally.

    • Reality Check says

      May 9, 2014 at 10:13 am

      I don’t give a damn, either.

      • Edward Cline says

        May 9, 2014 at 10:42 am

        Unfortunately, all the Muslims being brought into this country will also bring their diseases (aside from the Islamic one in their heads).

    • inMAGICn says

      May 10, 2014 at 12:02 am

      Equatorial Guinea is Roman Catholic.

  2. Bengazi Bill says

    May 8, 2014 at 11:31 pm

    Why does the Times even bother with the article in the first place? Unreal why somebody would publish an article and leave the underlying reason for it unanswered. On Sept 12, 2001 did the Times just report that 3000 people were killed in a ‘tragic mishap’?

  3. Holybacon says

    May 8, 2014 at 11:32 pm

    This is really sad. Innocent children will die or live a life of torture because their savage parents and the filth that call themselves religious leaders are once again allowed to cause misery on a grand scale. There will be a second round of crusades. Just as the first time, it will be to protect mankind from the cancer that is Islam

    • Rictic says

      May 9, 2014 at 6:36 am

      The sooner the new Crusade starts the better. The previous Crusades were a response to muslim invaders and the one that is coming is no different. Without it civilisation is doomed.

  4. Salah says

    May 9, 2014 at 12:18 am

    Islam is all about hate. They hate the infidel, they hate each other and, most of all, they hate themselves.
    Hate is the absence of Love, the absence of the True God.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/05/saint-and-sinner.html

    • duh_swami says

      May 9, 2014 at 5:31 am

      Actually, ‘hate (according to the dictionary), means ‘intense’ dislike’.
      There are a lot of things to intensely dislike, I really hate it when I hit my thumb with a hammer. Hate becomes a negative when it is irrational, but it is not always irrational, as with Islam.
      Hate is not the opposite of love. The opposite of hate is ‘like’, you either like something or you dislike it, sometimes intensely.

      • Mehmet says

        May 9, 2014 at 10:20 pm

        And what is an intense affection or like of something or someone? What word defines that? Answer: LOVE
        Salah is correct. Hate is an intense dislike of something. Love is an intense like of something. They are opposites.
        Thanks for playing.

  5. joeb says

    May 9, 2014 at 4:45 am

    But they’re not staying in muslim countries. For example, tuberculosis is on the rise again in the UK, after it was eradicated in the sixties. It now has the highest level in Europe. I had an aunt who died of it in the forties in London, and that was adifferent age. But now that’s coming back.

  6. Edward Cline says

    May 9, 2014 at 5:36 am

    What makes the useless people at the UN think that Islam is in the least concerned about health? If there is a pandemic of polio and other diseases in Muslim countries, Islam’s clerics would call it Allah’s will. Islam does not value life. People, please get that through your heads.

    • guest says

      May 9, 2014 at 11:46 am

      The UN is controlled by the OIC, a muslim group

  7. duh_swami says

    May 9, 2014 at 5:36 am

    Polio is not funny, not that anyone is laughing. Remember the iron lung? If polio becomes epidemic, there will not be enough iron lungs, or modern equivalents, to go around, and people are not going to just die, they will suffer to death.

  8. Gamaliel says

    May 9, 2014 at 6:13 am

    The New York Times did say “With 54 of this year’s 68 new infections, Pakistan is by far the riskiest country, Dr. Aylward said. Polio has never been eliminated there, Taliban factions have forbidden vaccinations in North Waziristan for years, and those elsewhere have murdered vaccine teams.” Most people know the Taliban are muslims.

  9. Jaladhi says

    May 9, 2014 at 6:23 am

    To think that these dishonest bastards are masquerading as journalists. Let truth be damned – how long before this country surrenders to Muslims!!

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 9, 2014 at 7:52 am

    Here’s the list of afflicted countries.

    “Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon have recently allowed the virus to spread — to Afghanistan, Iraq and Equatorial Guinea, respectively — and should take extraordinary measures to stop it, the health organization said.”

    Of those countries, only two – Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea – are non-Islamic. Cameroon is 74 percent non-Muslim, 26 percent Muslim, and is governed by non-Muslims; Equatorial Guinea is 90 percent Christian (probably mostly nominally, but there it is) and only 4 percent Muslim. Those two countries, not being Muslim, would probably be willing to cooperate in a major immunisation drive. Gates and co. can be encouraged to help.

    As for the rest – Pakistan, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq – they are Muslim hell-pits. Muslim jihadis attack and kill immunisation teams.

    Pull out all the non-Muslims (including the Christians from Syria and Iraq and the Hindus and Christians from Pakistan; all of these people would willingly and eagerly consent to be mass-immunised as the first step of their Great Escape to freer lands); then…impose Quarantine. *Not one Muslim* from those four countries is admitted into any non-Muslim land, henceforward. And any Muslim, previously resident in non-Muslim lands, who *leaves* the lands of the non-Muslims, and goes to Syria, or wherever…is not permitted to return to the land from which they departed.

    • inMAGICn says

      May 10, 2014 at 5:38 pm

      E. Guinea is pretty strongly Catholic, although there are strong animist strains (common in West and Central Africa. )
      One of my workers when I was in nextdoor Gabon was from E.G. and had to flee when Macias N’Guema was in power. Like Pol Pot, N’Guema liked to kill off educated people and these were welcomed in nearby countries. This young man picked up French because he not only spoke Spanish, he had been schooled in Latin.

      As for the Cameroons (the plural is traditional), the north is increasingly….wait for it….muslim.

  11. Michael Copeland says

    May 9, 2014 at 8:11 am

    THE PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL CONFERENCE
    There was a conference for progressive liberals.
    They all fell ill with a mystery ailment.
    They were taken to the Progressive Liberal Hospital.
    Tests revealed a vibrant and diverse array of bacteria.
    The Hospital operated a Multi-Bacterial policy.
    No Bacteriphobia was permitted.
    The patients all died.
    The hospital had to be closed down.

  12. Ice Star says

    May 9, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    Quarantine them until they are proven healthy before they are allowed to be in the USA.

    Better yet stop the Muslims from coming to the USA.

  13. Jax Tolmen says

    May 9, 2014 at 2:02 pm

    Between the Islamic Fatwa against vaccinations, and the anti – vaccination moron’s that prattle on about the dangers of vaccination; I have grave concerns for the future of the human race. The reason these diseases were eradicated was because of the vaccine – a true miracle of Western medicine.

    Vaccine’s rely on ‘herd immunity’; that is, enough people being immune to the disease that it simply cannot survive. These people are jeopardizing others with their ignorance; I am firmly of the belief that vaccines should be mandatory.

    I have a two year old son; and I would be furious at anyone who suggested to me that I am a bad parent because he was vaccinated. I also have an autistic brother; the insinuations that vaccine’s lead to such an unfortunate mental disability makes my blood boil. Even if there was a link, I truly believe it is better to have a few people suffering from autism than small pox wiping out half the population again.

    • Not a bigot says

      May 9, 2014 at 6:53 pm

      Yeah, you’re wrong about vaccination being a western invention. The Ottomans – incidentally, Muslims – were vaccinating for smallpox while the Americans were still attacking those who advocated for it. http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/timelines/all
      And the accompanying picture pretty much argues against the point trying to be made in this article, doesn’t it?

      • dawg says

        May 9, 2014 at 9:32 pm

        If you refer to Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī, he wrote a book describing the difference between small pox and measles but nothing about vaccines. He is quoted as saying “The doctor’s aim is to do good, even to our enemies, so much more to our friends, and my profession forbids us to do harm to our kindred, as it is instituted for the benefit and welfare of the human race, and God imposed on physicians the oath not to compose mortiferous remedies.”. He was beaten by a mullah that took offense to his practice

  14. David H says

    May 9, 2014 at 6:03 pm

    Its time we made the connection between the increase of polio and the so called religion of Islam.

  15. Ron says

    May 9, 2014 at 6:56 pm

    I feel sorry for the children. Let it be. Islamists !!!! Enjoy Polio ! I hope you all get it ! I said Islamists … Not Muslims !

  16. Mannie says

    May 10, 2014 at 10:47 am

    Pass it on. Vaccines are made from Pork.

  17. Cindy says

    May 10, 2014 at 11:32 am

    I will tell you why, we let any and evveryone come in this country and travel is open all over the world. They don’t make sure they are clean before they travel. So they bring in every kind of illness from all over the world. Especially when people come in and out of countries without proper papers. Who knows what is coming in. We must be very careful, but I guess that ship has sailed!!

    • Cathy says

      May 10, 2014 at 1:32 pm

      Yes they are flooding across the Texas border as we speak. Mexico has a very high incidence of Dengue fever with Pakistan #1 in the world. Now, how did it get to Mexico? There are Indians coming out of the jungles from Guatamala who are flooding in. They have no vaccinations. They are also being employed in all the restaurants, preparing our food.

  18. Cathy says

    May 10, 2014 at 12:56 pm

    Here is the link to the article showing the corruption in the Rio Grand Valley in south Texas/Mexican border.

    http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/south-texas-corruption-scandals-spur-reflection/article_8a11c33e-d3e0-11e3-b90f-001a4bcf6878.html

    Below is a comment which followed the article concerning the police corruption and bribery by the Mexican drug cartels in the Texas valley.

    “We are fighting this war in the Southern AOR and our local lawmen in RGV are making news in the Pentagon. The Pentagon is stepping up aid for Mexico’s bloody drug war with a new U.S.-baseds special operations headquarters to teach Mexican security forces how to hunt drug cartels the same way special operations teams hunt al-Qaida in the sand box AOR. Currently we have Shia extremists that are located near Monterrey N.L. and Nuevo Laredo and suddenly, a connection between the Iranian SOF unit Quds Forces. Hidalgo County needs to update there Standard Operating Procedures when bringing in new officers. A new SOP on training officers to have integrity, honor, and commitment to laws of the state of Texas. The new Sheriff should implement a mandatory urinalysis, special background investigation, and polygraph for all current and new officers. You implement these requirements into your SOP and more fat will be cut into the Hidalgo Sheriff’s Dept.”

    Dengue Fever is on the rise in central Mexico for the past three years. The highest incidence if this deadly ailment is in Pakistan. Invaders at the Texas Mexican border is up 180% with the majority from Guatamala, El Salvador and Honduras now. There is documentation of scavies which is a mite in their skin.

  19. Gary Simpson says

    May 10, 2014 at 1:42 pm

    Islam is not a religion, it is a cult built on the evil exploits of a pedophile, rapist and murderer – Mohammed! Its tenets are steeped in ignorance and hatred. There will never be peace in the world until Islam no longer exists in its current text – complete and total reform is needed in order to meet civilized standards.
    This insanity not to be vaccinated for polio is just one of the myriad of reason the reformation is needed, not to mention killing of infidels and beating women and other acts of depravity!

  20. Cathy says

    May 10, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    My mistake, invaders crossing from Mexico into Texas in the valley are up 160%.
    Besides the huge influx from South America, a large number are from China, Pakistan and India….All without vaccinations. The border in this area is so overwhelmed that they are having to fly them to other locations for processing.

    http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/border-patrol-to-fly-immigrants-from-rgv-to-el-paso/article_915f2b38-d604-11e3-91d8-001a4bcf6878.html

  21. Cathy says

    May 10, 2014 at 2:02 pm

    This is the article which talks about the scabies outbreak and how the entire facility had to be emptied and sanitized. Read the last line in the article link.

  22. Michael says

    May 11, 2014 at 1:51 am

    NOOOO Polio vaccines have Mercury in the shots that is a neurotoxin and cancers causing substances. READ THE INSERTS on the PACKAGES morons. There is nothing in the shots that stops Polio. There is no one shot fix’s everyone. Everyone’s body is different and reacts different. IT IS A FACT that children have gotten Autism right after a shot and that is now proven science fact and news. Islam, though a screwed up religion (Dare I use my free speech) is correct to RESIST the Bill Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation’s attempts to push dangerous shots on the people of the middle east. DON’T ANY OF YOU KNOW that 3 years ago, the Bill Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation’s gave out free shots to every child in INDIA and over 40,000 became paralyzed with in 24 hours. YA, IF YOU DON’T KNOW what your talking about, DON’T respond with your uninformed comments, because I have all the documented facts to back up what I say. Muslims killing Polio workers is an act of self defense, period.

  23. inMAGICn says

    May 11, 2014 at 3:00 pm

    Michael,

    Please give us the links to “…all the documented facts…”

    Thank you.

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