Are Polio Vaccinations Considered Haram In Extremist Islamic Eyes?

[sandyRoe]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35299597

[Svejk]

Seems that way, doesn't it.

[sandyRoe]

The fact that the CIA has used the vaccination programme as a cover for clandestine operations in the past can't have helped in Taliban controlled areas.

[Svejk]

Yes, sadly all manner of 'high jinks' are indulged in under the charity banner.

[naomi24]

Your link answers your question.

//Militants oppose polio vaccination, saying it is a Western conspiracy to sterilise Pakistani children. //

[sandyRoe]

Indeed it does. But my question was as much rhetorical as anything else.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't think new-borns come into this world believing such garbage, it has to be mental issues in the society into which they are born, or at least some families or groups within that society. High time these diseases were eliminated world-wide.

[Peter Pedant]

depends who you talk to I suppose

since seriously Sandy vaccines werent around in 650 AD that would be Mohd's time ( pbuh) thatmeans that the list of haram things are post Koranic and hey isnt the Koran immutable ?

They certainly have modern medicine ( when we let them ! )
and there is the added idea of strong predetermination (here if God has willed you have a vaccine then golly by dammit you will get one even if the janitor has to give it )

Yeah the polio vaccine porg in abottabad rather screwed it for the docs
but they machine gunned the vaccine bus in wherever because they thought it was a cover for conversion to christianity( they didnt shoot the muslim driver of course )

[sandyRoe]

And they might think a lad who contracted polio might have been predestined for a life of mendicancy.

[jim360]

It's a good thing that in the Western world we have a more sensible attitude to vaccines and recognise them as a powerful tool in the fight against debilitating diseases.

[naomi24]

Jim, you’re missing the point. They are well aware of the value of medicine – it’s just in this case they think the west is intent on pumping them full of something that will be detrimental to their well-being. Conspiracy theories abound.

[woofgang]

jim do I sense some irony there?

[Old_Geezer]

A lad who contracted polio will have been predestined for a life of mendicancy as he would have had the misfortune to be born among a bunch of unenlightened folk who otherwise could have made a different life predestined. It's "self" fulfilling, in a group type of way.