Having been diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic I have regular fasting blood tests to check my sugar level. Just another burden of advancing years though, of course, it strikes people of all ages. I don’t mind; it does not interfere with my daily intake of red wine. Anyway, I called into the medical clinic on Thursday. The regular nurse was away and a locum was in her place. She was a Muslim.
We had a very good chat about Islam. She was eager to share her views. I said that I was a Christian. Women are not allowed to speak in a mosque she explained, in the course of our discussion. The sound of a woman’s voice might distract men. I acknowledged the point, wondering whether that was, at least in part, behind St Paul’s injunction about women speaking in church. A thought which had not crossed my mind before.
She was a very pleasant lady and inserted the needle in a way which I felt not at all. Ten out of ten I gave her. It is good to have reminders that we are all God’s children. And we should treat each other as such. Unfortunately, there is no getting away from it, the toxic creed of Islam has a corrupting influence on Muslims who otherwise would be people like any other. Incidentally, I am not saying that most Muslims exhibit untoward behaviour in the normal course. Of course not. But when the rubber hits the road, one suspects that the imams would call the shots and the rest would fall into line.
I wondered if I were Jewish would I have been as relaxed walking into room and seeing a Muslim nurse. Would those two awful nurses in the news, expressing such malevolence on that video, have had me doing a quick about-turn? I don’t know. When I had my emergency operation a couple of years ago, I contemplated the risk of incompetence on the part of medical personnel, but not for a moment of being harmed deliberately. When President Reagan, having been shot, expressed a hope that the doctors treating him were Republicans, he was most definitely joking, while boosting his reputation at the same time. This ain’t that situation.
What now if I were Jewish? How nervous would I feel? To me that is the real cost of doctors and nurses weaponizing their political-cum-religious allegiances. The trust which glues societies together disappears. And once trust disappears it is a devil of task to ever get it back.
I was in hospital a few months ago, and one of my nurses was muslim. At one point she recited the ‘From the river to the sea’ trope. I pointed out that this was a way of demanding the extermination of Jews, and she was shocked at this interpretation and had never thought of it in those terms. She was a kindly woman, but not over bright. I think she would have been horrified at the idea of treating jewish patients badly.
But I’m not sure. One can’t be. One instinctively assumes other people are decent and civilised. Until one has doubts.
Me thinks you’re being a bit generous.
But then –
“Does Islam permit Muslims to lie?
Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other… unless the purpose of lying is to “smooth over differences” or “gain the upper-hand over an enemy.”
There are several forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, the best known being taqiyya (the Shia name). These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause of Islam – in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.”
More at
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/taqiyya.aspx
T2DM can be cured with the carnivore diet
Over what sort of time span, duk? Asking for a friend.
several months…. start here…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JO-DnErx8rM
Ta muchly!
Thanks duk very informative
Whatever residual trust I had in the institutions (political, legal, media) and organisations (business, community) that guide the nation, was stomped into oblivion with the covidiocy.
Metaphorically speaking, I have a partial boot print tattooed on my forehead now. Absent skin grafting, I don’t envision it will fade in the coming decade.
Despite my frequently expressed cynicism about politics, it greatly saddens me to now embrace the belief that it’s a dog-eat-dog world.
On a psycho-social level, human evolution has peaked.
Its the 4th turning…. ‘widespread loss of trust in the institutions’
Ahhhh, the hippy generation in it’s twilight years discovers they aren’t the centre of the universe and all the shit they did over the last half century have consequences beyond the fuzzy warm feelies it gave them at the time.
Trust can be destroyed in seconds. Rebuilding it is a herculean task of time and hard work.
The events of Covid sadly diminished my confidence in the medical profession. I have always been an independent thinker, as most of the contributors to this blog are.But the events of those years, together with communication with retired respected medical practitioners, has further sharpened my appraisal of current medical practice. Yes, the technical and surgical medical advances have been wonderful and lifesaving. But pharmaceutical dependence and the loss of understanding of how “health” is achieved and maintained, has shaken my confidence.
In respect to the Bankstown trio (& now the attitude of an Islamic doctor) – I reckon we will all be mindful when attending hospitals. It is extraordinary to think that we need to consider religious persuasions. All I have had to contend with is doctors who scoff at the use of vitamins! Not to speak of mRNA vaccines!
Vicki, thanks for putting my similar thoughts about health and hospital care into sensible form.
I had a life-threatening episode a few years ago, a simple arm injury that quickly transformed into a necrotising fasciitis, or flesh-eating infection. Our closest hospital is a Catholic Mater hospital, I was admitted through AE, had emergency surgery, was in an induced coma in ICU for 9 days and in hospital for 6 weeks. My arm was saved, I made a complete recovery.
That was 11yrs ago. I hope hospital care is at that standard today, but silently I wonder (not about Mater Waratah, it is still brilliant, from recent experience).
Trust in the MSM has gone forever.
Why should the topic of religion arise during a medical visit, Peter? I would have asked for another different appointment.
Funnily enough I had my yearly blood test last week and the phlebotomist was a Muslim girl. Has there been a major influx of Muslims into the health sector or is it due to DEI hiring while non-minority applicants are overlooked?
Shortage of health workers all round.
We’re also poaching them from UK & NZ.
The influx started with Airports, Security, is now filling the Police and the Health and Pharmacy sector has a major toe-hold.
“V”, lives.
I had my annual blood test recently and two weeks later, I still have a bruise the size of a large plum around my elbow. It has shrunk considerably.
Laverty should hire some of the local junkies, who can find a vein without massive bruising.
How hard is it to do it properly?