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Algeria: Religious Affairs Ministry tells people the coronavirus can be stopped with the Qurʼan

Apr 16, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“The Qur’an is for the poor and medicine is for VIPs and their families.”

“Algeria: people told the epidemic can be stopped with the Qurʼān,” by Kamel Abderrahmani, Asia News, April 14, 2020:

Paris (AsiaNews) – A young Muslim intellectual slams the use of religion, specifically Qurʼānic chapters (Sūrah), to fight the coronavirus. Recited and broadcast with loudspeakers, this keeps people in ignorance. His criticism underscores the tragic situation of Algeria’s civilian hospitals, which lack everything compared to military hospitals, reserved for the elite, which are well stocked. (Translation by AsiaNews).

Ridicule may not kill but ignorant people can do by themselves what their enemy dare not do. This is what is happening in Algeria right now. Whilst our Mediterranean neighbours are using all medical resources at their disposal to stop and defeat the COVID-19, in Algeria, to achieve this goal, the Religious Affairs Ministry has undertaken two completely outlandish, abject, inconceivable, dishonest, and even laughable initiatives.

Rest assured that the first initiative is not about handing out masks to poor people or providing some of its budget money to help our underequipped hospitals. No, it involves handing out copies of the Qurʼān across the country. This is a way to push people towards irrational and religious arguments, which are useless vis-à-vis the pandemic.

In order to carry out this “important project”, the state has mobilised Islamic associations, local Salafist militants who ensure that neighbourhoods and villages tow the line, and is providing residents with copies of the Qurʼān, inviting them to “deal with” the health crisis through religion. Meanwhile, public hospitals endure severe shortages of the most basic means of protection against the coronavirus, except for the right to a copy of the Qurʼān; whilst military hospitals, which are reserved for the powerful, have proper equipment that cannot be found in regular hospitals. In short, the Qur’an is for the poor and medicine is for VIPs and their families….

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    Muslims who lose family members due to the MEDIEVAL MEDICAL IDEAS promoted by the mullahs will be the next group of EX-MUSLIMS.

    Mohammed actually believed that disease was not contagious. This medieval superstition is DANGEROUS for the general public’s health.

    Islam opposes modern VIROLOGICAL science. A doctor cannot be a Muslim.

    • J D S says

      Apr 17, 2020 at 11:09 am

      Bleeding, leaches and all sorts of ancient remedies ..
      .
      HAIR OF A CAT,BLOOD OF A RAT, SKIN OF A FROG , TONGUE OF A DO ADD ENOUGH WATER TO MAKE A GOOD GROG, STIR IT WELL WITH A WITCHES BROOM, ADD THE WING OF A BAT , IF THERE’S ENOUGH ROOM THEN DRINK, DRINK DRINK TILL YOU’VE GOT YOUR FILL, THEN YOU’LL SOON FIND OUT IF IT’LL CURE OR KILL.Be sure to call on allah if you’re feeling I’ll.

  2. Beverly says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 4:36 pm

    Islam and science are mutually exclusive.

  3. DHazard says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 5:18 pm

    Islam’s running death toll is well into the hundreds of millions, perhaps surpassing one billion. Now we can add thousands more as the spokesmen for Allah, the ones millions of religious Iranians follow and whose medical knowledge extends no further than “how to wipe your ass”, speak with the total sense of authority described by Dunning and Kreuger.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 16, 2020 at 8:30 pm

      Probably not that high–but only because many people recover even if they receive no treatment at all.

  4. FYI says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 7:20 pm

    The demonic,deranged faces say it all.Should we explain to those no doubt illiterate ‘holy’ men in that picture above that their “perfect” koran is so full of errors{logical,theological,scientific,even grammatical} that by allah’s own criterion of koran 4:82 it cannot come from God but is clearly man-made:how did allah miss the Golden Rule,teach the opposite of the 2nd chief commandment{Lev 19:18} ,miss the Holy Spirit{the Helper},get the role of the Jews wrong,completely misrepresent the Doctrine of the Trinity{he has MARY in it koran 5:11} and deny everytrthing about Jesus despite claiming to be the author of the Gospel …which he affirms{koran 3:3}?

    They would be too full of false piety and hatred to appreciate it:allah gives permission to hate and do evil.But then allah admits to being a champion at deceiving people{koran 3:54} and has as his enemy a MAN{..yes,the god of islam’s enemy is a MAN..}called the King Of Kings{Sahih muslim vol 5 hadith #5611} a name only ONE man has{Revs19:16}:Jesus Christ.

    islam is antiChrist:instead of Love there is hate,disobedience to the Actual Biblical God’s Exodus 20 commandments{the koran gives full permission for muslims to violate these laws},endless violence,an apartheid system{muslims vs non-muslims}etc

    Given that the Golden Rule is defined as being the MEANING of the law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets{Matthew 7 v 12}I challenge any muslim to explain how allah MISSED that…or the Holy Spirit{the Helper} which is also MISSING in islam.

    No Golden Rule in islam implies that the god of islam does not know the MEANING of “the law of Moses and the teachings of all the prophets”.Consider that!

    But then his name is the great deceiver

    • Marstar says

      Apr 16, 2020 at 10:40 pm

      +100

  5. gravenimage says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    Algeria: Religious Affairs Ministry tells people the coronavirus can be stopped with the Qurʼan
    ………………….

    Even if they don’t have enough test kits, medicine, or even masks, they could at least emphasize social distancing and self quarantine, which can be practiced by anyone, no matter their means.

    And so much for those like Jihad apologist ELI, who has claimed that all Muslim nations are adopting first-world standards, and that it is only an handful of individual Muslims who are flouting the guidelines, just as in the West. What would he say about this official pronouncement from a government ministry in Algeria? Probably nothing at all, since he is unlikely to post on a story like this one.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Apr 17, 2020 at 8:33 am

      How can these muslims react in a necessary way when they don’t even know what is physically happening? To them it is all that jinn Allah’s magic.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 17, 2020 at 11:13 pm

        Too true, Giacomo

  6. maemae77 says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 3:49 am

    Ultimate Islamic propaganda.

  7. notnolib says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 8:41 am

    The koran can actually be used to wipe away some of the effects of the virus. With TP in short supply, and since normal human beings wouldn’t use their left hand and/or an odd number of pebbles, the koran can be used to wipe your bottom.
    If I’m not mistaken, the terror group CAIR gives them out for free.

  8. LARRY L BRASWELL says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 3:44 pm

    I fully support their views on this matter and admire the strength of their convictions. In Fact. I encourage the entire muslim world to take note and practice the exact same response. Please.

  9. Ole Iversen says

    Apr 18, 2020 at 7:31 am

    What a shame that Ebola never has spread to the Middle East. I would love to see them explain why 90% would die.

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