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Polls and vaccines

(h/t One Jerusalem)

Forty percent of Muslims between the ages of 16 and 24 said they would rather live under Sharia law in Britain. One in eight young Muslims admire groups such as Al -Qa'eda. While 36 percent believe that a Muslim who coverts to another faith should be "punished by death."

I guess then that it isn't surprising that

Dr Abdul Majid Katme, head of the Islamic Medical Association, says almost all vaccines contain un-Islamic "haram" derivatives of animal or human tissue, and that Muslim parents are better off letting childrens' immune systems develop on their own.

Dr Katme, an NHS psychiatrist, said: "If you breastfeed your child for two years - as the Koran says - and you eat Koranic food like olives and black seed, and you do ablution each time you pray, then you will have a strong defence system."

(via Memeorandum)

According to Secular Blasphemy this isn't the first time something like this has happened. And, as he notes, this isn't unique to Islam.

Blue Crab Boulevard points out that is an especially bad time to be making such arguments.

Given that Britain is, at this very moment, experiencing a suspected outbreak of rat-borne disease, the doctor's guidance is even more stupid than it sounds

Instapundit, of course, has more. Though my misgivings about the HPV vaccine are more in line with those of Riehl World View.

UPDATE: A blog for all observes

Western Resistance notes that the countries where polio outbreaks are prevalent are those which are Muslim-majority populations - and a disease that should have been eradicated had those countries engaged in vaccination of their populations are instead seeing a resurgence of the disease and it is now spreading to countries where the disease had been eliminated (again, mostly Muslim nations

UPDATE: more at BuzzTracker.

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