Posted on 04/29/2009 7:28:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Egyptian leaders ordered the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of pigs today to help protect against swine flu, prompting angry protests from the poor Christan farmers who feed their animals with a country's food scraps. The decision was also criticised as a "real mistake" by a senior UN food expert.
The Arab world's most populous nation has been been badly hit by the H5N1 bird flu virus in recent years and the move to cull up to 400,000 pigs - seen by Muslims as unclean animals - was designed to calm fears of an impending pandemic.
But it left Egypt's large Coptic Christian minority up in arms, especially the slum-dwelling "Zebaleen" rubbish collectors who rely on the hogs for their livelihood. Scores of them blocked the streets and stoned the vehicles of Health Ministry workers as they arrived to carry out the government's order at pig farms on the outskirts of Cario this afternoon.
“Our pigs are healthy. They are our capital and they have no diseases,” said Adel Ishak, who feeds his pigs from the rubbish he collects in Manshiet Nasser, northeast of Cairo.
"We remind Hosni Mubarak that we are all Egyptians. Where does he want us to go?” added 46-year-old Gergis Faris, another pig farmer. “We are uneducated people, just living day by day and trying to make a living, and now if our pigs are taken from us without compensation, how are we supposed to live?”
The decison to cull the pigs was announced by Hatem al-Gabali, the Health Minister, after a meeting with President Mubarak. “It has been ordered to immediately begin the slaughter of all herds of pigs in Egypt,” he told reporters.
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Muslims and Lefties....No vaccinations, no pork, no modern medicine....
Just taking the chance to demonstrate how peaceful and tolerant they are. No mention of any of these fellows being reimbursed for their losses.
the copts have been mistreated for centuries.
it’s doubtful any egyptian official is going to listen to them.
There will be payback for the copt rioting and the UN criticism. More crackdowns and vigilanteism against copts.
According to the map on this site, the mideast seems to be the only place untouched by the swine flu. (I’m not counting north africa)
I hope they have a 2nd Amendment to their Constitution.
Just an excuse to rid Egypt of the “dreaded” swine that Mohammad feared so much.
Things haven't changed much since the days of Ramses II.
>Just an excuse to rid Egypt of the “dreaded” swine that Mohammad feared so much.
Gallons & gallons of water + Gallons of pig-blood + crop-duster = thousands of Muslims who will never be clean again.
Honestly, why don’t we “crop-dust” terror training-sites w/pig-blood, then their glorious sacrifices will be for naught... right?
Yeh, what happens when a muslim is infected with pig virus anyway???
If a muslim is infected with pig virus in Egypt they will surely blame it on Israel and the Jews.
I know - I lived in Cairo 3 years. Anything bad happens they normally blame the Mossad.
The Muslims killed the pigs to comply with the Koran...
They would just as willingly kill all Non Muslims for the same reason....
They said nothing to protect their tourist income and let our kids' lives be endangered.
“According to the map on this site, the mideast seems to be the only place untouched by the swine flu. (I’m not counting north africa)”
They don’t have the ability to diagnose it.
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