{"id":5904,"date":"2007-02-17T18:39:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T13:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2007-02-17T18:39:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T13:09:01","slug":"religion-and-polio-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/religion-and-polio-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion adds to its headcount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A depressing headline, this: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/frontpage\/story\/0,,2013477,00.html\" title=\"Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot\">Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What bugs me the most is that if some people unconnected with religion spread such rumours, and deaths were caused by that, legal or police action would almost certainly be taken against the mischief mongers. But because these guys are clerics, they&#8217;re untouchable, immune from the consequences of their actions. It&#8217;s a pity so many of us put religion on such a pedestal&#8212;and it&#8217;s not only Islam I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Recent related posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/root-of-evil.html\" title=\"The root of evil\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/treatise-on-wife-beating.html\" title=\"A treatise on wife beating\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/all-for-god.html\" title=\"All for God\">3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/linkyslove.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gautam John\">Gautam John<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A depressing headline, this: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/frontpage\/story\/0,,2013477,00.html\" title=\"Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot\">Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What bugs me the most is that if some people unconnected with religion spread such rumours, and deaths were caused by that, legal or police action would almost certainly be taken against the mischief mongers. But because these guys are clerics, they&#8217;re untouchable, immune from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Religion adds to its headcount - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/religion-and-polio-in-pakistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Religion adds to its headcount - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A depressing headline, this: &#8220;Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot.&#8221; What bugs me the most is that if some people unconnected with religion spread such rumours, and deaths were caused by that, legal or police action would almost certainly be taken against the mischief mongers. 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