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Gambian President's cure for AIDS: green paste & bananas (Islamic medicine)
The Daily Mail ^
| 2/21/07
Posted on 02/21/2007 10:07:46 AM PST by lqclamar
Jammeh has so far refused to disclose details of his herbal concoction, saying only that the treatment uses seven plants - "three of which are not from Gambia." The treatment begins with the president applying the green paste, stored inside a deli-style plastic container. Next is a gray-colored solution, which he splashes on the patient's skin. It is stored inside an old Evian bottle, as is the yellowish, tea-like brew which patients are asked to drink. The therapy is administered numerous times over the course of several weeks.
After treating the original nine, Jammeh emerged from his black-tinted treatment chamber, carrying a tall wooden staff, a string of Islamic prayer beads and a leather-bound Quran.
In front of him, 30 new patients waited on lawn chairs, drawn like the first batch from the roughly 20,000 people currently living with HIV in Gambia.
He told them that during treatment, they must cease drinking alcohol, tea and coffee. They also cannot eat kola nuts or have sex.
Jammeh held up a leather-bound copy of the Quran, pointing it at each of the patients in turn: "In the name of Allah, in three to 30 days you will all be cured," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: africa; aids; gambia; hiv; islam; islamicmedicine; islamonutcase; koran; muslim; religionofpeace; rop
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:07:48 AM PST
by
lqclamar
To: lqclamar
Photo of Jammeh waving the Muhammed's witchdoctor moon god manual over a victim
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:09:58 AM PST
by
lqclamar
("That's it, Seth, you can't blame them. It's want of education. That's all it is.")
To: lqclamar
Great. He practies hoodoo. This cure is as about as effective as the "having sex with a virgin will cure you!" line of reasoning that has also come out of Africa.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:10:19 AM PST
by
Malacoda
(A day without a pi$$ed-off muslim is like a day without sunshine.)
To: lqclamar
they must cease drinking alcohol, tea and coffee. They also cannot eat kola nuts or have sex.
Good luck getting that to work in America. :)
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:10:27 AM PST
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: lqclamar
Now if he can only secure a cure for ignorance.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:12:31 AM PST
by
Ben Mugged
(Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
To: P-40
From Iran's state-run Fars News Agency a few hours ago:
The president [Ahmadinejad] said enemies' opposition to Iran's acquisition of the nuclear technology has turned the country into a paradigm for the other world nations. Noting the recent progresses made by young Iranian scientists in different scientific and technological fields, including treatment of spinal cord injuries, discovery of AIDS control drug, production of new synthetic medicines and great achievements in the agricultural field, he said that train of the Iranian nation's progress is racing ahead and the world powers can never stop it even if they mobilize all their power and possibilities.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8512020532
Coincidence? I think not.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:14:21 AM PST
by
lqclamar
("That's it, Seth, you can't blame them. It's want of education. That's all it is.")
To: lqclamar
discovery of AIDS control drug
I think the AIDS control drug he is talking about there is cyanide. :)
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:16:31 AM PST
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: lqclamar
"In the name of Allah, in three to 30 days you will all be cured," he said. Let's see if the reporter does a followup in 45 days and how many are "cured".
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:17:06 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: P-40
I think this explains everything
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:22:25 AM PST
by
lqclamar
("That's it, Seth, you can't blame them. It's want of education. That's all it is.")
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To: lqclamar
This is prolly a good thing, in that when the people being "cured", die of the disease, others may begin to see reason, but then again, these morons may be too dumb to even recognise a pattern.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:27:46 AM PST
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: CarrotAndStick
This is prolly a good thing, in that when the people being "cured", die of the disease, others may begin to see reason, but then again, these morons may be too dumb to even recognise a pattern. When the "cure" fails on somebody he'll insist that there's nothing wrong with the treatment then claim that allah simply did not will that particular person to be healed. That's how they think in the Islamic world. Just watch and see.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:31:00 AM PST
by
lqclamar
("That's it, Seth, you can't blame them. It's want of education. That's all it is.")
To: lqclamar
"...green paste & banannas..."I doubt it works as a cure, I do believe that his solution might stop one from getting AIDs in the first place...
It just strikes me as very uncomfortable to wear it that way... ;)
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:33:24 AM PST
by
gnarledmaw
(I traded freedom for security and all I got were these damned shackles.)
To: lqclamar
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:33:37 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: lqclamar
To be fair, most Muslims probably would consider this guy a figurative nut, too.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:44:36 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: lqclamar
How about a St Joseph aspirin held tightly between the legs??
To: lqclamar
Can't we just let them all kill each other off?
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:45:29 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(When Chuck Norris goes to bed at night, he checks under the bed for Jack Bauer.)
To: lqclamar
"They also cannot eat kola nuts or have sex."
That's AIDS prevention, not an AIDS cure.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:47:19 AM PST
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: lqclamar
A bit of smoke and mirrors there...his AIDS control is the "don't have sex" part...that'll keep down the spread of aids. As for being cured in 3 to 30 days, well, he said it's by the power of allah...if these people aren't cured within a month it's proof positive allah is a false or powerless god.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:48:42 AM PST
by
highlander_UW
(I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
To be fair, most Muslims probably would consider this guy a figurative nut, too. At least one prominent muslim leader likes him:
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8509110468
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:49:05 AM PST
by
lqclamar
("That's it, Seth, you can't blame them. It's want of education. That's all it is.")
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