British Muslims Urged Not To Get Children Immunized

[Annie]

Darwinian moment? The way they are trying to make the fertility field a little more level? I wonder if HIS children had their innoculations?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2570067,00.html

The Sunday Times January 28, 2007

Muslim urged to shun 'unholy' vaccines
Abul Taher

A MUSLIM doctors’ leader has provoked an outcry by urging British Muslims not to vaccinate their children against diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella because it is “un-Islamic”.

Dr Abdul Majid Katme, head of the Islamic Medical Association, is telling Muslims that almost all vaccines contain products derived from animal and human tissue, which make them “haram”, or unlawful for Muslims to take.
Islam permits only the consumption of halal products, where the animal has had its throat cut and bled to death while God’s name is invoked.

Islam also forbids the eating of any pig meat, which Katme says is another reason why vaccines should be avoided, as some contain or have been made using pork-based gelatine.


His warning has been criticised by the Department of Health and the British Medical Association, who said Katme risked increasing infections ranging from flu and measles to polio and diphtheria in Muslim communities...

 

[Gunny]

Darwinian moment? The way they are trying to make the fertility field a little more level? I wonder if HIS children had their innoculations?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2570067,00.html

Yeah, but they're not trying to live in the 7th century.