In Pakistan clerics still believe polio drops make you impotent

June 13, 2012 12:21

A cleric in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh has declared the polio campaign ''un-Islamic'' and announced at the local mosque that Jihad should be carried out against the visiting polio vaccination team.According to The Express Tribune, the local polio team entered Muzaffargarh''s rural area and asked local families to cooperate with the campaign.

When the local cleric, Maulvi Ibrahim Chisti found out about the campaign, he immediately went to the biggest mosque in the area and declared that polio drops are ''poison'' and against Islam. He added that if the polio team forced anybody to partake in the vaccination campaign, then Jihad was ''the only option''.

Residents said the cleric had tried to convince them that the polio campaign was a ''western conspiracy'' to render the population impotent.

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