Ebola, being spread through Africa by Islamic burial practices that many Muslims are too stupid to stop doing.

Although this is a uncomfortable subject for the mainstream media, who have failed to document it or publicise it properly, it appears that Islamic burial practices are responsible for spreading Ebola in those African states afflicted by it. In an article on the Investors Business Daily (hat tip Creeping Shariah) website some of the post-mortem religious and cultural practises that are being done by Muslims is a major factor in the spread of this deadly and incurable disease.

The Investors Business Daily website said:

“Islam isn’t just at the heart of the terror threat posed by the Islamic State. The religion is also contributing to the other major crisis plaguing the globe: the spread of Ebola.

Washington and its media stenographers won’t tell you this, lest they look intolerant, but Islamic burial rituals are a key reason why health officials can’t contain the spread of the deadly disease in West Africa.

Many of the victims of Ebola in the three hot-spot nations there — Sierra Leone and Guinea, as well as neighboring Liberia — are Muslim. Roughly 73% of Sierra Leone’s and about 85% of Guinea’s people are Muslim. Islam, moreover, is practiced by more than 13% of Liberians.

When Muslims die, family members don’t turn to a funeral home or crematorium to take care of the body. In Islam, death is handled much differently.

Relatives personally wash the corpses of loved ones from head to toe. Often, several family members participate in this posthumous bathing ritual, known as Ghusl.

Before scrubbing the skin with soap and water, family members press down on the abdomen to excrete fluids still in the body. A mixture of camphor and water is used for a final washing. Then, family members dry off the body and shroud it in white linens.

Again, washing the bodies of the dead in this way is considered a collective duty for Muslims, especially in Muslim nations. Failure to do so is believed to leave the deceased “impure” and jeopardizes the faithful’s ascension into Paradise (unless he died in jihad; then no Ghusl is required).

Before the body is buried, Muslims attending the funeral typically pass a common bowl for use in ablution or washing of the face, feet and hands, compounding the risk of infection.

Though these customs are prescribed by Shariah law, they’re extremely dangerous and should be suspended. Mosque leaders must step in to educate village Muslims about the dangers of interacting with corpses.

Ebola victims can be more contagious dead than alive. Their bodies are covered in rashes, blood and other fluids containing the virus.

“Funerals and washing dead bodies in West African countries have led, to a great extent, to spread the disease,” a World Health Organization spokeswoman recently warned.

WHO has issued an advisory to Red Cross and other relief workers in African Muslim nations to “be aware of the family’s cultural practices and religious beliefs. Help the family understand why some practices cannot be done because they place the family or others at risk for exposure.”

The document added: “Identify a family member who has influence with the rest of the family and who can make sure family members avoid dangerous practices such as washing or touching the body.”

The warning appears to be falling on deaf ears, however.

Last month, Red Cross workers in Guinea were attacked by family members while trying to bury Ebola dead safely. In Sierra Leone, moreover, a family took Ebola-ridden bodies secured in body bags from the Red Cross, opened them up and exposed all members of the family to Ebola. They all contracted the disease.

Read the rest of this article at Investor’s Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/101614-722174-islamic-burial-rituals-blamed-for-spread-of-ebola.htm#ixzz3GloshUnC

Although other faiths, such as Judaism, have post-mortem body washing practices that are similar if not the same, I have no doubt that if a disease like Ebola was afflicting a Jewish community then pre-burial body washing would be at least temporarily abandoned. This is because in Judaism, unlike in Islam, the preservation of life overrides every other religious commandment that bind Jews. That Africa’s Muslims refuse, despite much evidence, to accept that Ebola is bring spread by communal pre-burial washing rituals is yet another example of how culturally, scientifically and intellectually backward many Islamic communities are. 

The Red Cross the World Health Organisation and other agencies are trying desperately to get African Muslims to stop doing the very things that are spreading Ebola but as you can see from the article above they are often violently refusing. Yet again we see how Islam and its beliefs and practices is not a religion of life, but a religion of death. We also see how Islam brings death with it wherever it goes. It brings violent death in the form of Jihad, cultural death in the form of Shariah Law and now it is spreading Ebola a fearful and fatal disease.

Islam, the more I look at it the more I think ‘what’s not to like’ about this disease spreading, violence advocating, oppressive, misogynist, death cult?