I’m not sure where this thread should go so I’m putting it here.
I read an article yesterday about workers being shot down who are administering the polio vaccine in Pakistan. I know this has happened before as well.
I just want to know why they are being targeted? What do these people have against the children of Pakistan being vaccinated against polio? It’s not a hypothetical question, I really want to know what the issue and reasoning is.
Polio has been almost eradicated around the whole world except Pakistan because as usual a group of jahils has a problem with it.
Re: why are they attacking the anti-polio workers?
Originally the common allegation by the ignorant against the polio vaccination was the it was not a vaccination against polio at all, but a western conspiracy to administer drugs to children that would sterilize them in order to make Muslim countries weaker in future and easier to conquer.
After the Dr. Afridi scandal, the Taliban began adding to this the allegation that polio workers were collecting information for western intelligence agencies.
As a result, polio was free to spread through these societies in northern areas of Pakistan and Nigeria.
A non complicated answer, I read the reason could be because that was how they originally found Bin Laden. Where they secretly entered the compound when they first suspected where Bin Laden was to do vaccines on some of the children in that house. I heard since then that could the reason. It’s so sad.
Re: why are they attacking the anti-polio workers?
They want to make the country isolated from rest of the world, destroy its infrastructure, create havoc, thats the only way they can fullfill their dream of ruling it.
Re: why are they attacking the anti-polio workers?
During the hunt for Bin Ladin, a Pakistani doctor, Dr Shakeel Afridi, is alleged to have worked for the CIA. He allegedly organized a vaccination drive that enabled health care workers to access to the Bin Ladin compound, collecting DNA from Bin Ladin’s children and thus proving that Bin Ladin lived there.
Lots of alleged in there because, as per the nature of secret operations, actual solid evidence was never released publicly.