UK: Head of Islamic Medical Association Urges Muslims to Refuse Vaccination
January 27, 2007
The head of the Islamic Medical Association is urging Muslims not to vaccinate against a host of deadly, contagious diseases on the basis that the vaccines are supposedly haram.
Muslim urged to shun ‘unholy’ vaccines
Abul Taher (London TimesOnline)
A MUSLIM doctors’ leader has provoked an outcry by urging British Muslims not to vaccinate their children against diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella because it is “un-Islamic”.
Dr Abdul Majid Katme, head of the Islamic Medical Association, is telling Muslims that almost all vaccines contain products derived from animal and human tissue, which make them “haram”, or unlawful for Muslims to take…
…There is already evidence of lower than average vaccination rates in Muslim areas, reducing the prospect of the “herd immunity” needed to curb infectious diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella…
… He claimed that Muslims must allow their children to develop their own immune system naturally rather than rely on vaccines.
He argued that leading “Islamically healthy lives” would be enough to ward off illnesses and diseases.
“You see, God created us perfect and with a very strong defence system. If you breast-feed your child for two years — as the Koran says — and you eat Koranic food like olives and black seed, and you do ablution each time you pray, then you will have a strong defence system,” he said.
So, presumably, if you don’t vaccinate your child against polio or measles and the child contracts the disease, it is because you didn’t pray enough or dose the child with enough black seed oil?
This man is a medical doctor who should be ashamed to mislead and endanger people in this manner.
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zeeshanhasan | January 28, 2007 at 1:20 am
That’s disgraceful! I already know of a bunch of well-intentioned and misinformed Muslim parents in the UK who have avoided vaccinating their children. What makes matters worse is that these folks are also frequent visitors to South Asian countries where diseases like polio, TB, hepatitis etc are still widespread.
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proggiemuslima | January 28, 2007 at 6:50 pm
It’s bad enough that people in rural third world villages are persuaded to refuse preventive health measures. But when you have people in the UK (and in the US) who fall for this drivel, it is even more troubling.
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Abdul Kareem | January 31, 2007 at 9:00 am
Salaam alay kum
The ingrediant found in vaccines look more like a withces brew. Mercury, infected animal remains, ABORTED FETUSES. . Well if that is what being Proggresive is all about shouldnt we question the whole idea? no but dont rush to attack this docters valid point. there are geniune concerns about what is being put into this things that are injected straight into the blood by passing the protection of the liver. the casue of diseace are lack of clean water,food and a sewage disposal. Prevention of diseace has nothing to do with injecting chemicals into the body. Pharmaceutical company are just taking credit for the humantian effort of people striving to provide c;ean water and santitary conditions to poor people. dont let money be given to these company instead of proper water ect. wasallam
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proggiemuslima | January 31, 2007 at 6:48 pm
As salaamu alaikum –
Abdul Kareem, there is plenty of research to prove the efficacy and safety of vaccines. If you wish to risk your health by bypassing modern science and you wish to forgo protection from polio, measles, rubella, etc. that is your own business. Unfortunately, people like yourself who refuse to be vaccinated and refuse to vaccinate their children become disease carriers who spread these lethal and contagious diseases to other people. That is unconscionable.
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Abdul Kareem | February 1, 2007 at 7:04 am
asalaam alay kum sister
Just because serums are given in nice clincal syringes dosent mean that vaccines belong to modern science. the roots of vaccination began in the days of jahiliya. the ancient Arab triibes of Nubia used to have a semi religous ceremony in which a child was cut and his bleeding wound was mixed with invected pus. This sort of thing took place thourgh out the pollythesist tribes of Africa. This was and still is a dirty practice involving najaasat.
Sister does not abortion make you sick?
Murdered human beings are being used to make vacines.
So this is drivel?
Because people in white coats say there is no other alternative we have to believe them
George Bernard Shaw said “it is not that we lack faith it is just that we have transferred to the medical proffesion”.
The basis of health is the consumption of halal and tayyab.
Tayyab means pure and wholesome. There is plenty of modern sceitific evidence proving that improved hygeine and diet as the majour factor in the eradication.
people are dying in Afica from lack of infastructure in the distrubution of clean food and water as well as removal of waste.
There is plenty of evidence to show that vaccination harms the human being. Time and time again big pharmeuctical deny vaccines links to autism and other behaivoural disorder dispite the existence of so much evidence. what is their reason for denial. massive profits hundreds of thousand of careers, big instituion rely on vaccine manufacture and distribution. If it is discredited what could all those people do?
so what if a few thousand people have their lives ruined .
I am a white muslim from a church of england backround and has
hs been to a private middle to upper class bording school. amongst my old class mates were many who belived that there are too any eople in the world and getting rid of many of them would be a good thing. The teachers talked about sterilisation program frequently.
If people are worried about allowing their chllren to be injected there are grounds for doing so.
It is not irrational it is not bypassing modern science
wa salaam
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proggiemuslima | February 1, 2007 at 10:20 pm
That’s very interesting but it has nothing to do with medical vaccinations which are produced according to strict medical and sanitary standards.
I don’t know where you are getting your information from, but vaccines do not come from aborted fetuses.
Improved hygiene is extremely important, but vaccination against known contagious disease is still essential to public health. Many diseases are spread through human contact or through the air and cannot be eradicated by hand washing or using proper toilet facilities.
You greatly exaggerate side effects that have been seen in only an extremely small minority of people.
However, the effects of not vaccinating people are well known and documented by the epidemics, deformities and trail of death they leave behind. The refusal of many Muslims in Nigeria to vaccinate their children against polio created an epidemic which spread to other countries. It led to Saudi Arabia taking the unprecedented step of vaccinating Nigerians and people from certain other countries upon arrival into the country for Hajj. (This was in addition to requiring Nigerians to bring proof of vaccination to Saudi Arabia along with their visa.) The Saudis decided (rightly) that it would be wrong to allow un-vaccinated people into the country where they could infect millions with a preventable disease.
From IslamOneLine: Preventing Child Vaccinations: Permissible?
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Abdul Kareem | February 2, 2007 at 9:11 am
For Immediate Release
July 18, 2005 - Children of God for Life
Vatican Officials Condemn Aborted Fetal Vaccine Manufacturers - Demands Ethical Alternatives
(Largo, FL) Children of God for Life has received a response from the Pontifical Academy for Life under the direction of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding vaccines derived from aborted fetal cell lines. In the document published in Medicina e Morale by the Center for Bioethics of Catholic University in Rome and titled, MORAL REFLECTIONS ON VACCINES PREPARED FROM CELLS DERIVED FROM ABORTED HUMAN FOETUSES, Vatican officials put the burden of guilt 100% on the pharmaceutical industry, comparing their moral complicity to that of the abortionists themselves.
The 8-page document, which has been anxiously awaited for several years by pro-life parents and physicians nationwide states that, doctors and families “have a duty to take recourse to alternatives, putting pressure on political authorities and health systems…They should use conscientious objection and oppose by all means – in writing, through various associations, mass media, etc, - the vaccines which do not yet have morally acceptable alternatives, creating pressure so that alternative vaccines are prepared, which are not connected with the abortion of a human foetus…”
The document, which can be viewed in full at http://www.cogforlife.org/vaticanresponse.pdf also supports parents who refuse to use the vaccines, citing that those who have been forced to vaccinate experience “a moral coercion of the conscience … an unjust alternative choice which must be eliminated as soon as possible.”
“Overall, I am very pleased with the statement”, said Children of God for Life Executive Director, Debi Vinnedge, who has battled this issue for years and received the document and letter directly from Bishop Elio Sgreccia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
“We brought the matter to Canon lawyers at the St. Joseph Foundation prior to sending an appeal on to the Vatican,” Vinnedge said. “There is a serious problem when parents are denied the right to abstain from these vaccines in accord with State law, simply because there was nothing from the Church directly addressing it.”
Vinnedge says the PAFL document, which calls for “rigorous legal control of the pharmaceutical industry producers” should also spur action on their Fair Labeling and Informed Consent Act, introduced to members of Congress earlier this year. The legislation requires that pharmaceutical companies give full disclosure whenever aborted fetal or embryonic cell lines are used in their products.
Dr Steven White, President of the Catholic Medical Association agreed. “”We must demand that the pharmaceutical industry provide accurate information on the origin of all vaccines so that we are able to make informed decisions in accord with our moral conscience - and we must mobilize to support development of ethical alternatives.”
For more information or to schedule an interview, contact, Debi Vinnedge, Director of Children of God for Life at 727 584-3332 or email debi@cogforlife.org
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Abdul Kareem | February 2, 2007 at 9:51 am
Asalaam
A muslim tries to raise these issues and he is looked at by contemp by other muslims.
The issues at stake are very important and shouldnt dismissed at hand.
With out going into the danger of vaccines debate (which i assure you is a large and complex one and involves sceitific evidence on both sides.) let just talk about the use of haraam things in vaccines.
I just went to a muslim country and found thier that if one wanted to buy sweets and things like that then it was very difficult to insure they were Halal. However here in this country it is very easy and a lot of products that used to contain animal products now because consummer pressure have been altered. Most muslims will check the ingrediants on the labels before they give their kids any sweets or biscuits. This is part of being a progressive muslim. If it is written on the packet that it contians E345, what is that. An ignorent or careless muslim wouldnt know how to or wouldnt want to find out. A progressive muslim would. Like wise we should find out what really is in these vaccines. InEgland and the USA people are far more aware of the role of consumer pressure. Medicine that are banned here because they are to unsafe for consumption are simply shipped of to other countries where people are unaware. Is it any wonder that a muslim in England stands up to say these things. Vaccines and the like are made here not in Africa obviously we should know a little more about these things. I have met and talked to people who used run manufacturing plants, in qualtity control who losthis job because he complianed that when he had deemed a batch unfit and unsafe it was still shipped out. I cant understand you when you say things like.
“It’s bad enough that people in rural third world villages are persuaded to refuse preventive health measures. But when you have people in the UK (and in the US) who fall for this drivel, it is even more troubling”
This whole debate got as far as 10 Downing Street when MR blairs wife refused to give her kid the MMR vaccine.
BY all means we should use science to improve our condition. But nowadays so many planly immoral things can be justified in the name of science. THIS IS THE ROLE OF TRULY PROGRESSIVE MUSLIMS! to bring morality back to science
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proggiemuslima | February 2, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Salaam, Abdul Kareem — I stand corrected. There is controversy about a certain vaccine in for which used DNA derived from fetal cell lines. This is not that standard for most vaccines, and I still believe that people should vaccinate against disease. There’s plenty of data on the desirability of vaccination against certain diseases. And there is plenty of data on the undesirable results of populations who refuse to vaccinate (i.e., the rise of polio in in Muslim areas Nigeria where people were persuaded to avoid vaccination). We will have to agree to disagree.
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Jamale Ijouiher | February 5, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Sorry to chime in so late but Abdul Kareem has my blood is boiling.
”A muslim tries to raise these issues and he is looked at by contemp by other muslims. The issues at stake are very important and shouldnt dismissed at hand.”
- You deserve to be looked at with contempt because you are unspeakably evil. You actually believe that it’s better for people to die of preventable illnesses rather than break a minor rule. Yes, I think it’s excusable to use Hala products if it can save hundreds of lives. I also notice that you did not answer that point proggiemuslima made; about the Saudi’s seeing no problem advocating the vaccines you say are unIslamic despite their rabid Fundamentalism or the fact that the Nigerians died by the Hundreds despite their strong religious faith.
”With out going into the danger of vaccines debate (which i assure you is a large and complex one and involves sceitific evidence on both sides.) let just talk about the use of haraam things in vaccines.”
- There is NO debate amongst experts about the benefited aspects and importance of vaccines. The fact that you abandon any attempt at providing evidence and return to religion shows that.
”I just went to a muslim country and found thier that if one wanted to buy sweets and things like that then it was very difficult to insure they were Halal. However here in this country it is very easy and a lot of products that used to contain animal products now because consummer pressure have been altered. ”
- No it’s because in this country no one cares about Hala or do you propose enforcing this rule on everyone. (I secretly suspect that you would if you could.)
”Most muslims will check the ingrediants on the labels before they give their kids any sweets or biscuits. This is part of being a progressive muslim.”
- No fretting over what’s in a food product is a hallmark of the Fundamentalists, a group to which you undoubtedly belong, and are the antithesis of a Progressive Muslim.I also find it funny how those people can crusade for Hala goods and for veils but can’t find the strength to fight for equal rights or poverty. I think the muslim world needs to get its priorities straight.
”I have met and talked to people who used run manufacturing plants, in qualtity control who losthis job because he complianed that when he had deemed a batch unfit and unsafe it was still shipped out”
- I have a feeling, giving your dishonest debating tactics you’ve displayed, that you’re lying or spin doctoring what really happened.
”This whole debate got as far as 10 Downing Street when MR blairs wife refused to give her kid the MMR vaccine.”
- Firstly, their is no real debate. Secondly, the fact that Mrs Blair is an idiot does not constitute evidence nor does it make her qualified to give an opinion on this matter.
”THIS IS THE ROLE OF TRULY PROGRESSIVE MUSLIMS! to bring morality back to science.”
- what your realy mean to say is hold back science.
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proggiemuslima | February 5, 2007 at 8:47 pm
As salaamu alaikum –
Jamale, thanks for joining in. You made some excellent points.
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kk | March 11, 2007 at 2:06 am
crikey how primitive do you want to prove islam to be? these vaccines save lives. if you want deaf, mentally deficient & deformed children, just fail to vaccinate for rubella. and may your god reward you with decdes of remorse
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proggiemuslima | March 13, 2007 at 6:29 am
{{crikey how primitive do you want to prove islam to be?}}
The ignorance of a minority of conspiracy theorists doesn’t “prove” anything about Islam. This is particularly true in this case, since Muslims are obligated to seek medical care and to take care of themselves and their children to the best of their ability. Just because someone labels themselves as head of the Islamic Medical Association doesn’t mean they are an expert in Islam or in medicine.
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shahnoz | October 30, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Alhamdulillah, there’s muslim specialist who urges to stay away from vaccines. i was learning about side effects & damages of vaccination. it’s very harmful stuff
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Asif | March 13, 2008 at 2:22 pm
do a google search for vaccine ingredients and you will see they are haraam. There are leading Doctors and Scientist in Canada and the U.S. that say vaccines are harmful and dangerous.
Go to the following website to learn more.
http://www.vaccination.inoz.com/ingredie.html
http://www.vran.org/vaccines/vacing/vac-ing-can.htm
Some of these vaccines contain pork (gelatin), monkey kidney cells, blood cells from haraam sheep, dangerous chemicals such as mercury and formaldehyde.
I have personally suffered for years because of a vaccine I got as an adult. I was unaware of what was in them. I have a friend who’s son baby boy almost died of a vaccine. The child had a very sickly childhood after that.
I say we should all wake up and do our homework.
Watch this video trailer on youtube —
Vaccine the Hidden Truth.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9huLQs7jXGg
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Umm AbdurRahman | March 18, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Asalaam walaikum
subhannalah. i can see from the above comments that on both sides people believe in thier view with passion that what they are doing is halal and the correct thing to do. This is great. There should be above all respect for the others opion even if you dont agree. Remember the hadith of Mohammad saw that the one who leaves an argument even if they are right is rewarded. I cant remember the exact words but it is like this. I am a mother of 3 children and myself had vaccinations as a child and many of my children had vaccinations. But i am putting it all on hold as i want to do more research to find out for myself as i do believe that people on both sides genuienly want to do the best. So it really comes down to evidence and not on this occasion asking people i trust as i would do with many other issues as many of us are not learned in this area.
I have been researching for a few months and found quite a lot of disturbing facts about vaccines and thier content such as aborted baby fetus and other illogical ingredients, mercury, and so many things. If you research the ingredients you will find that on their own they are not allowed generally and if they are they are allowed in doses depending on the age and size of the patient. Remember that pharmacueticule companies make a lot of money and they provide governments with a lot of revenue, so you have to take what they say with a large pinch of salt.
I think to put down other muslims and call them names is not the way we should be with eachother. We must remember Allah swt at all times even when you dont agree with another Muslim. Are we to lower ourselves and condem our beloved muslim brothers or sisters? Our beloved prophet Mohammed saw instucted us to spread peace Asalaam walaikum upon one another even to those who we dont know. Manners in Islam is everything. Enjoin the good with the best manner.
My baby daugher suffered from her injections and it took months for her cut to repair i mean where the needle went in the arm and also my eldest who had MMR is slower and I feel has suffered from it however slightly. I just said Bismillah and gave the injection and trusted Allah swt. But this is not really the correct way ive realised that trusting in Allah means. We must do our upmost to know about what we put into our childrens body especially where there is a doubt and when other muslims are warning us. Let us hear the doctors view and take in on board when making a fully informed decision. TO just nod and agree with whatever societies norms are is just to be a sheep and who is the shepard? No one who is willing to take accountability.
So brothers and sisters please remember you will be held accountable for all your actions and as small as a grain of mustard seed so that includes vaccinations. Never doubt that Illness comes from Allah and He is the one that cures us. We may even have the vaccinations but it does not prevent us from catching the illnesses. And there are plenty of muslim and non muslim doctors who disregard the vaccinations but are affraid of being cast out. But we have Allah and so we are used to being rejected from the norm and do not fear the blame of the blamers.
I realise its part of a larger picture so i do my best and keep away from harm for myself and my familyand I do believe that there is a big doubt regarding vaccinations. From science they say something is safe then change it later on. So my faith in them or their judgment is not unconditional ie the scientists as above all they deny the greatest logic that there is a creator. There are god scientists who dont believe in a god but this fact leaves them difficiant.
This life is a test only to see if we worship our Lord so fear not and this life is only like an evening or afternoon compared to the next life which is final. So have hope in Allah and even if we get ill or not we will return to Allah swt. And Allah never burdens a soul more than it can bare. Any harm or hardship we face is a purification for our hearts so fear nothing except Allah swt as He deserves to be feared. He sent the Quran as a rememberance and the best example is Mohammad saw. We are insaan people and insaan’s route word means to forget as our nature is to forget. So remember Alllah and He will remember you.
Salaam
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zainab | May 26, 2008 at 4:45 pm
can you refuse all vaccinations or will social services get involved
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Abdul Jalil | August 22, 2008 at 10:40 am
What available information do you have with regard to HIV, AIDS, and Islam?