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To: one_less who wrote (9532)	2/17/2007 6:30:21 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

no I know the truth, Islam is a cult

To: one_less who wrote (9532)	2/17/2007 6:46:47 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

lolol what a cult. Daughter sold to pay for eye op News24 ^ \| 16/02/2007 \| Reuters news24.com Karachi - A Pakistani man sold his 10-year-old daughter for $500 to pay for his eye operation, a police official in the southern province of Sindh said on Friday. The father Noor Mohammad had agreed to hand his daughter over to a fellow villager, Gul Mohammad Kalohi, once she reached puberty, according to Abdul Hadi, district police officer for Badin, about 250km east of Karachi. "It is a shameful incident and has taken place," said Hadi. "We were informed about this incident from a complaint made by a relative of the father." Police have completed their investigation of the case, but no charges have been laid yet as they were still determining which district had jurisdiction as Kolai village, near Tando Bagho town, lay on a boundary. Zia Awan, a noted rights lawyer, said under the children's protection law in Sindh the father could be sentenced to a year in prison. Such cases are relatively common in rural parts of Pakistan, where feudal and tribal customs prevail. Men either sell or exchange their daughters to pay off debts or settle disputes.

To: one_less who wrote (9532)	2/17/2007 6:55:10 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 9838

cult? you make the call. Islamist Militants Claim Vaccines Are US Plot The Telegraph (UK) ^ \| 2-17-2007 \| Isambard Wilkinson telegraph.co.uk A doctor was killed by a roadside bomb in Pakistan today as Islamist militants tried to halt a polio immunisation campaign which, they say, is an American plot to sterilise Muslims. Dr. Abdul Ghani was killed and three guards wounded after he visited a mullah, or religious leader, in Salarzai, a village in Bajaur tribal region in the borderlands with Afghanistan. "It was a remote-controlled bomb," said an intelligence official in Khar, Bajaur's main town. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. Dr Ghani was killed while returning to Khar, where he was chief surgeon at the main hospital, after attending a tribal gathering to promote polio vaccinations. Last month, the parents of 24,000 children in Pakistan's Northern Areas bordering Afghanistan refused to allow health workers to vaccinate their offspring against polio. Radical mullahs claim the polio campaign is an American bid to reduce the world's Muslim population by spreading sterility. This message is carried on local radio stations and from the loudspeakers of some mosques. Health experts say the risks of a polio epidemic have increased. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recorded 39 cases of polio in Pakistan last year, compared with 28 in 2005. Waheed Khan, a government coordinator for the anti-polio drive in North West Frontier Province, said the authorities were trying to reason with the clerics. "We have launched a campaign to convince parents that polio vaccination has nothing to do with religion and it does not affect fertility, or the ability to produce children," said Mr Khan. Unicef, which helps run the vaccination campaign, played down the impact of obscurantist preachers. "It is a very small percentage [of the 5.8 million children targeted in NWFP] and these children missed vaccination for a variety of reasons - that the child was not at home, or had gone out to play," said Melissa Corkum, a Unicef spokesman. But a WHO health worker said that 60 per cent of the refusals in North West Frontier Province were made on religious grounds - and the failure to vaccinate in all areas would cause the disease to spread. Muslim clerics in northern Nigeria spread the same message in 2003. They managed to halt all vaccinations in Kano state for about one year. By the time they resumed, 257 children had been paralysed and polio had spread into two neighbouring countries.