{"id":1097,"date":"2007-01-28T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2007-01-28T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T15:14:00","slug":"snake-venom-salesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"Snake venom salesman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Majid Katme (who really exists, and has been at it for years; I have talked to him) is telling Muslim women<\/a> that they must not get their children vaccinated because some of the products used to make vaccine are haram.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

This is of course far more wicked and stupid than the Catholic Church’s stand on gay adoptions and far more likely to harm society in general. This is worse even than the disgraceful Andrew Wakefield, whose precedent is not encouraging here. But Wakefield only opposed one vaccination, and he operated through the media, influencing people, who were or wanted to be, middle class. Their children were probably fairly healthy to begin with, and they could themselves be reached by the same papers which spread Wakefield’s nonsense in the first place.<\/p>\n\n

But the kind of mothers who might listen to the Islamic Medical Association (or the Muslim Council of Britain, on which Katme sits) are not going to be reached by educated opinion. Their children are also going to be poorer, less well-nourished, and living in worse accommodation; and his advice applies to all vaccinations. So his advice, would, if followed, not only make them ill, but lead to them becoming a reservoir of infection for everyone else. This is such a ghastly working out of the standard racist fantasy that it forces me to conclude that there is a God, and he agrees with Richard Dawkins.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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