We have seen this many times in the past. Eight polio workers were murdered in Afghanistan in February 2022. A Pakistani Muslim cleric has said that polio vaccinations are un-Islamic. And in Nigeria, a Muslim cleric was arrested for playing a role in sparking the murders of polio workers. The polio vaccine is often seen as a Western infidel conspiracy to sterilize Muslim children, as AP notes here.
This is why the best word for the people who did this is “Muslim,” because they were motivated and guided by Islamic beliefs and attendant assumptions to kill these polio workers.
“Gunmen kill polio worker in Pakistan vaccination campaign,” Associated Press, March 2, 2022:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen in northwestern Pakistan shot and killed a female polio worker as she was returning home Wednesday after taking part in the country’s latest anti-polio campaign, police said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. However, militants often target polio teams and police assigned to protect them in Pakistan, falsely claiming the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
Wednesday’s attack happened on the outskirts of the city of Peshawar. Iqra Iqbal was gunned down on her way home, said Iftikhar Khan, a police official….
Walter Sieruk says
When it come to a terrible number of Muslims, that happened in Pakistan then they murdered a polio aid worker is sadly proves the the rather new saying is a valid statement . Which is that “No good deed will go unpunished.”
bill says
After all getting polio must be the will of ‘allah’. Remember how the clerics were saying Muslims need not worry about Covid as it was a punishment from ‘allah’ and would only affect infidels?
That is the Muslim mind set
Infidel says
Given their hatred for polio workers, why doesn’t Pakistan simply declare polio their national disease?
tim gallagher says
I presume that most Muslims do realise that vaccinations against a multitude of diseases are a great thing, but the idiocy of this idea that vaccinations against polio is a conspiracy to sterilise Muslim children shows what absolutely moronic, incredibly backward people some Muslims are. In so many different ways, Islam shows over and over again that it is a primitive load of garbage and does not belong in the modern, enlightened world. And Pakistan seems an incredibly barbaric country as is shown constantly.
PRCS says
This is why the best word for the people who did this is “Muslim,” because they were motivated and guided by Islamic beliefs and attendant assumptions to kill these polio workers.
And for this:
9/11
Paris
Nice
Sri Lanka
Manchester
2008 Mombai attack
Fort Hood
San Bernardino
Charlie Hebdo massacre
The “blind sheik”
Nashville
(feel free to add your personal “favorites”–there are thousands of examples to choose from)
No, not extremists, radical Islamists, hardliners, fanatics, literalists, or similar words and terms.
Just call them Muslims, thank you.
Make CAIR and other “Muslim advocacy” groups prove otherwise.
James Lincoln says
PRCS,
I found an excellent database of all terrorist attacks in the United States since 1835. Notice the marked increase in jihad attacks starting in the 1990s.
“Terrorist attacks and related incidents in the United States” – complied by Wm. Robert Johnston:
https://johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/wrjp255a.html
Anson Rohr says
People never mention the murder of hundreds of small children and others in the school attack in Beslan, Russia in 2004. Western media barely covered it. Muslims struck once again.
Walter Sieruk says
That horrendous and tragic murder of that well polio worker ,who no doubt had good intentions by traveling to Pakistan to help the people is horrible enough but this isn’t the only case of some Muslims murdering a good person who was only attempting to help them.
This evil incident may be ,somewhat, explained by one the fables of Aesop which is entitled “The farmer and the viper.”
So here it is …
“On one very cold winder day in ancient Greece an nice old farmer discovered a viper that was near death because because of the freezing cold. The kind but foolish farmer felt sorry for the poor creature and picked it up and put it in his vest pocket to warm it up a save its life.
After a time that viper did warm up and revived then when it felt better it bit the farmer through his vest with its venomous bite. So as an outcome of the caring and compassionate act of kindness the result was a deadly bit. The farmer died and slow and painful death because of his action of caring and kindness.”
The point of this story is that no amount of compassion ,caring and kindness will change an evil and vicious nature.
Those Muslims who murdered that medical polio aid worker have such an evil nature because they have been completely infected with the vicious ,violent and deadly religion of Islam.
John Allan says
Are there any OTHER vaccinations, that come under the description of ‘unislamic’?
The length of time that many vaccines/vaccinations have been in existence, we probably shouldn’t HAVE any Muslims, to practice their inane religion, were the vaccines really that capable of sterilising the women!
Perhaps we should start now, en masse! Nip a few future Muslim idiocies, in the bud!