“Our prayer leader told us that the virus can’t infect us the way it does Western people.”
Even if people who think this way get infected, they won’t change their way of thinking. They will just assume they had displeased Allah in other ways, and redouble their efforts to please him. That’s why these kinds of assumptions are linked to jihad activity. A hadith has a Muslim asking Muhammad: “Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).” Muhammad replied, “I do not find such a deed.” (Bukhari 4.52.44) So what better way to make sure you’re pleasing Allah, and to protect yourself from coronavirus and a host of other ills, than by waging jihad against Infidels?
“‘God is with us’: Many Muslims in Pakistan flout the coronavirus ban in mosques,” by Asif Shahzad, Reuters, April 13, 2020:
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Sabir Durrani says he offers prayers almost every day at a mosque in the central Pakistani city of Multan. He says that often a dozen or more men are in attendance – none of them wearing protective face masks.
FILE PHOTO: A police officer uses a megaphone, requesting people to go and pray at home, at the locked entrance gate of a mosque during a lockdown after Pakistan shut all markets, public places and discouraged large gatherings amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Karachi, Pakistan March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/File PhotoDurrani, 52, is among thousands of devout Muslims flouting Pakistan government orders issued late last month banning religious congregations of five or more people to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The disease has so far infected more than 5,300 people and killed 93 in the world’s second-most populous Muslim country.
“Our prayer leader told us that the virus can’t infect us the way it does Western people,” Durrani told Reuters. “He said we wash our hands and we wash our face five times a day before we say our prayers, and the infidels don’t, so we need not worry. God is with us.”
The Islamic lobby holds immense clout in Pakistan, a country of over 200 million people. Religious parties have not been successful in electoral politics but they are able to whip up large, often violent, crowds on matters pertaining to religion, such as in support of the country’s harsh blasphemy law….
More than 60% of the coronavirus cases in Pakistan have so far been linked to Muslims returning from pilgrimages in the Middle East and followers of the Tablighi Jamaat, an orthodox proselytizing group.
But the worry is of a big spike coming from the congregational prayers held in mosques, especially on Fridays, the Islamic sabbath. The numbers in attendance at prayers are likely to increase with the onset of the holy month of Ramadan within two weeks, and authorities are struggling to cope.
While the Council of Islamic Ideology, a body that advises the government on religious issues, has called on clerics and the public to cooperate with government measures, several priests and local leaders have opposed the ban.
A prominent leader of a religious party told a crowd of hundreds of people gathered for a funeral last week that government orders to limit congregations were unacceptable.
“If you do this, we will be forced to think that mosques are being deserted on America’s instructions,” Mufti Kafayatullah told the crowd. “We’re ready to give our lives, but not ready to desert our mosques.”
BLIND EYE
In Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, police were attacked for a second straight week as they attempted to halt prayers at a mosque last Friday. A policewoman was injured in the clashes, and in the previous week, police fired shots in the air to quell an angry mob.
In other cities, police seem to be turning a blind eye to some mosque gatherings.
Last Friday, one of the top Twitter trends in Pakistan was “Muslims, the mosque is calling you”.
In the capital, Islamabad, hundreds gathered on Friday without any hindrance at one of the city’s largest mosques, located just two miles (three km) from the seat of Pakistan’s government, including parliament and the prime minister’s secretariat….
FYI says
And the Darwin Award 2020..goes to….islam.
Unfortunately no one from the islamic community is available to collect the award.
John says
“Unfortunately no one from the islamic community is available to collect the award.”, all dead, Good, less satanic barbaric FILTH in the World
mortimer says
John, your political ideology was condemned and punished severely at Nuremberg.
Muslims are humans who have the wrong information.
David says
Mortimer: ‘The wrong information’ is putting it mildly. Islam is a special case. In case you don’t know, and I am sure you do, it exhorts muslims to kill infidels. This is as bad as it gets.
Nazis were also humans. Were they also given the wrong information? John wishes this on evil muslims. Many muslims are evil, as you will acknowledge, I hope.
Enrique says
Muslims kill westerners because their” holy” book tells them and we are also human. So why can’t he say that?
gravenimage says
Mortimer, John was was referring to the stupidity of Muslim actions–he was not actually talking about harming anyone. Was referring to stupid behavior really what was condemned at Nuremberg? Was anyone punished for laughing at the Nazis?
Westman says
A thought might occur to someone in the West of, “Why is it in our best interest to free Muslims from slavery to Islam, only to have them invade the West for real opportunity?” Are there not enough traitorous Global Corporations already selling out their nations by importing workers?
It is pure stupidity and ignorance for Muslims to go to the Mosques during a pandemic yet, this, and the resulting illnesses, will have little effect on the West. Ramadan begins April 23rd – will this be another opportunity for the spread of Covid-19 among Muslims?
Jaydam says
Ramadan begins April 23rd –
will this be another opportunity for the spread of Covid-19 among Muslims?
I’m not one for praying Westman, but on this occasion, I’ll make an exception 🙂
Avenger says
A small percentage of these worshipping muslims will perish by covid19 and even a smaller percentage will be in their reproductive years. It really won’t be even a ripple in the overall population of these human parasites.
The only way to live with muslims is not to.
Wellington says
“The only way to live with muslims is not to.”
A very well stated paradox.
James Lincoln says
True, Wellington.
I actually missed it during my first read…
gravenimage says
Avenger is right in this case.
mortimer says
Avenger, did you factor in that those infected in each mosque will infect their families and that their families will infect people in the markets and those in the market will infect their own families in turn?
The snowball effect.
Wellington says
Per the photo above, butts in the air en masse.
How fitting since Islam is a monumental error en masse.
Major metaphor here. MAJOR.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: 1000s of Muslims gather in mosques, 60% of coronavirus cases linked to Muslims going to Islamic gatherings
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Who can be surprised by this?
Jaydam says
I doubt anyone would be surprised by that GI.
Do you think we should rejoice, and encourage all Muslims to gather in mosques..? 🙂
jimjfox says
Is this a trick question? ?
lee says
We should encourage Muslims to pray more at mosques, otherwise we don’t know if Allah is merciful and all knowing. Coronavirus is nothing, if Allah cannot see it.
Jayell says
This story reminds of the line from one of John Cleese’s comedy sketches where Mr Cleese, playing a particularly thick interviewee on a TV show, proudly announces “Yes, I’ve understood all my mistakes and I can repeat them exactly every time”. Except this lot in Pakistan don’t even seem to have the brains to realise that they’re making mistakes in the first place! Never mind, seal up the borders and let Allah teach them. Education via a self-projected deranged glove-puppet in the sky should be interesting to observe! (Sorry, Wellington, I”ve pinched your idea again).
OLD GUY says
If there were a stupid award Islam would be a big winner. No wonder it took muslims 1400 years longer to get out of the caves.
Shreyas says
Just hope and pray that all these crazy jihadi bastards gather more and more in mosques during the ‘Holy’ month of Ramadan and perish without a trace. Allah u akbar.