This Extreme And How Stupid: Egypt Will Slaughter 300,000 pigs Due To Fear

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I just heard this on the news how Egypt, which has NO cases reported of any Swine Flu problems is going to give the go ahead to slaughter 300,000 pigs/swine due to the recent fear of the Swine Flu pandemic...How stupid is this. We are being told we do NOT get the Swine Flu from pigs themselves or eating pork, but is spread human to human contact. Remember the famous Bird Flu scare? Countless birds including chickens were killed years ago in many Asian countries where the Bird Flu originated thought was thought NOT to be linked to chickens but usually wild waterfowl, and in this case too, the flu was not a result of direct contact with many birds but spread via human to human contact. Here's a part of an article I found...in which it states too "It is God’s grace in his Islamic Sharia to permit all that is good for us and to ban what is bad. We could understand the wisdom of the ban, or we could not understand it. But eventually time proves the truth of God’s words to us," Sheikh al-Sayed Askar said at a Muslim Brotherhood-sponsored symposium on the virus. [i]The Government’s decision came a few hours after the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition group, said in a symposium on the health scare on Wednesday that swine flu is "more serious than the hydrogen bomb." The Brotherhood - which, although banned, is Egypt’s largest opposition bloc in parliament - voted for the cull, and said that the swine flu outbreak demonstrated the wisdom of the Islamic ban on pork. "It is God’s grace in his Islamic Sharia to permit all that is good for us and to ban what is bad. We could understand the wisdom of the ban, or we could not understand it. But eventually time proves the truth of God’s words to us," said at a Muslim Brotherhood-sponsored symposium on the virus. [/i] http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=990415 (NOT a referral link but to an article) Yes these pigs are raised for food consumption and therefore would be eventually slaughtered....but isn't this crap a little extreme? Is some nutcase in other countries going to declare the killing off ALL pigs/swine en masse in other countries all because this flu is named "Swine Flu"? HOW frucking asinine is this? Gee just think...if suddenly a "flu" was named "Cat flu" or "Dog Flu" would there be massive killings/slaughter of all cats and dogs in the world? Give me a break. Oh, and I just LOVE how in the statement this Sheikh al-Sayed Askar is implying its "God's will" to kill these pigs/swine en masse. Yeah, blame God --no blame stupid MAN buddy