Polio is a truly horrible disease. Those who this disease does not kill, it often cripples and it is children who seem to suffer the worst from the affects of Polio. I’m old enough to remember back to when I was a child, seeing older children, teenagers and adults struggling to walk because of the effects of Polio, their limbs encased in what were called ‘irons’ that enabled them to stand and walk.
These are images that I can never forget and it is due to vaccination that Britain has not had a domestically acquired Polio case since the early 1980’s although this awful but wholly preventable disease was killing dozens and crippling hundreds of people into the early 1960’s.
The images of crippled kids and the memory of hearing the fear in people’s voices when they mentioned the word ‘polio’, returned to my mind when I read this latest horror story from the shithole that is Pakistan. According to a report in the Independent online newspaper (h/t ROP) published on the 18th of January 2018, attempts to eradicate Polio from Pakistan are being hampered by Jihadists who believe that the polio vaccine is a ‘Jewish plot’ to sterilise Muslims or that vaccination itself is ‘unIslamic’. It is the actions of these often murderous Jihadists that has created the situation where Pakistan and Afghanistan two of the three remaining countries, the third is Nigeria, where Polio is still a problem.
The latest incident where Jihadists have been involved in stopping Polio prevention initiatives in Pakistan saw a mother and daughter Polio vaccination team gunned down and murdered in the South western Pakistani town of Quetta. If anything this appalling incident just shows how much Islam has contributed to Pakistan becoming a shithole. How else could one describe a country where those who try to save lives are routinely murdered by Islamic savages but with the word ‘shithole’?
The Independent said:
Sakina Bibi, 50, and 20-year-old Alizah killed by unidentified Islamists militants thought to oppose immunisation on religious grounds. Gunmen in Pakistan shot and killed two women working on a polio eradication campaign on Thursday, the latest in a string of attacks on efforts to protect children from the crippling and sometimes deadly disease.
No group claimed responsibility for the killings in the southwestern city of Quetta but such attacks have in the past been carried out by Islamist militants, who oppose the immunisation of children as un-Islamic.
Sakina Bibi, 50, and her 20-year-old daughter, Alizah, were giving immunisation drops to children when two gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot them, said police official Naseebullah Khan.
The Pakistani government has promised to investigate these terrible and senseless murders but I doubt that any investigation will amount to much. The nation of Pakistan is too mired in the ideological cesspit that is Islam to take on those who dragged Pakistan down and who will continue to drag Pakistan down. Other nations in the world have done wonders in reducing or eradicating Polio by vaccination. South East Asia, the United States and Europe have been declared by the World Health Organisation to be almost completely Polio-free. The difference between these nations and regions and the likes of Pakistan is that these nations and areas are not, like Pakistan, run or controlled by the sort of virulent Islamic savagery that kills those who want to save the lives of children.
