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Islamic Biological Warfare
by James Dunnigan
May 12, 2005
Discussion Board on this DLS topic
It turns out there are there are Islamic “Weapons of Mass Destruction” after
all. In particular, biological weapons. But these mass killers have been
developed within Islamic nations, and are doing most of their damage there. The
war on terror has taken many American doctors to Islamic nations, and they have
discovered a heretofore hidden AIDS epidemic. This is not the first time this
has happened. AIDS quietly entered India, and South East Asian nations, but was
finally discovered, and received attention. But in most Islamic nations, AIDS is
not supposed to happen, and the governments, religious leaders and general
population will not even admit the disease is there. But it is, and in large
numbers. While promiscuity and prostitution are common in Islamic nations,
talking openly about it is not. As a result, AIDS has spread for years through
the Middle East and other Islamic nations without much, if any, official or
media attention. This is nothing new. Same thing happened in Africa, even in
nations with few, if any, Moslems. Cultural traits made it difficult for many
African nations to admit AIDS, and its favorite methods of transmission (drugs,
homosexuality, promiscuity) existed. Now some African nations have a third or
more of their adult population infected. Billions has been donated by Western
nations to provide medical assistance to African nations that now admit they
have a problem, but infrastructure and corruption problems are preventing many
of the infected from getting any care. Same pattern is developing in the Islamic
world. No official statistics yet, but the medical underground hints at high,
and rising, infection rate. And little, if any, local willingness to recognize a
problem exists.
But it’s not just AIDS. In Nigeria, faith based paranoia
on the part of Islamic clergy, and politicians, caused a polio epidemic, which
is now spreading to other Islamic nations. The UN has been trying for years to
wipe out polio (which has been eliminated in most Western nations). In the last
few years, UN medical resources were massing to wipe polio out in one of the
last places where it still thrives; northern Nigeria. But some local Islamic
clergy got the idea that these foreigners and their medicine (polio vaccine)
were actually out to poison young Moslem females and make them sterile. Yeah,
it’s nuts, but it went over big in northern Nigeria and stopped the polio
eradication program cold. The Islamic clerics finally relented (after the UN
brought in Islamic medical experts, and jumped through a lot of hoops), but by
then it was too late. The polio was moving to areas where it had earlier been
eliminated. Since you can track where a polio strain came from, it is now known
that the “Nigerian strain” is responsible for outbreaks as far away as
Indonesia. So far, there are only about 1,300 cases in Nigeria and elsewhere.
Polio is not nearly as bad as AIDS. Many of those infected with polio never know
they have it, but they can spread it. About one half of one percent of those who
get it can end up paralyzed for life, usually in the legs. Polio mostly hits
young children.
Many Islamic radicals continue to blame Western
conspiracies for the polio outbreaks, which are hard to hide. AIDS, on the other
hand, causes a breakdown in the immune system, and the actual cause of death is
always something else (that makes you sicker, quicker, because your weakened
immune system cannot deal with it.) But the Islamic radicals, when confronted
with the AIDS outbreak in their midst, blame it on outsiders. This sort of
things does not happen in an Islamic culture.
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