Topic: Islamic Burial Rituals Blamed For Spread Of Ebola (Read 1024 times)

Every credible post on the internet starts with 'the main stream media won't tell you this, but...'   

The number one cause for this is imo lack of education. Education will learn people to make think for themselves. Many people don't even use the internet, and cannot even read, and all they learn is from their local community.

First, I am not the one arguing with those words. Follow the link posted and tell the writer how wrong he is.

Second if this not true is it OK for the family members to skip washing the body and simply burn it down to save the rest of the family? That would be the best solution to help out stop the spreading of Ebola, or at least one of the solution... Don't you think?

We know where the source of this Ebola DNA signature is coming from down to a GPS spot: with people eating bush meat like bats and monkeys.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iraq, Iran, and Sudan are not really known for their bats and monkeys population. People in Texas were not known to eat bat and monkey meat either. And yet...

Ebola is not racist nor anti islam. It will liquefy everyone's internal organs equally.

Religious beliefs and superstitions are the cause of many bad behaviours. I wonder why people still are under the influence of this stupidity... Learn to think for yourself and not listen to the words of some 'holy' figures.

So, you're arguing that the hardest hit country, Ebola-wise, is the one with a predominantly Christian population? Nigeria, 50/50 split, ebola is contained.  Good one. We could go on and extrapolate that the US has seen a couple of cases domestically, yet Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iraq, Iran, and Sudan have all remained unscathed

I knew bat and monkey meat was not the only cause of the spread in Africa... Can't the family use hazmat suits during the burial ceremony? I am sure their imam would allow it (just guessing)

SHARIA LAW DEMANDS IT!

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.

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