Clip urging Muslims to march to virus hotspots goes viral

[rooster59]

Clip urging Muslims to march to virus hotspots goes viral

By The Nation

 

 

A video purporting to show Muslim pilgrims in Indonesia being urged to gather at Covid-19 hotspots has received lots of attention in the deep South of Thailand.

 

 

In the video, Muslim worshippers on a "Dawah" (missionary) pilgrimage are encouraged not to be afraid of the novel coronavirus and to march to locations where Covid-19 is spreading.

 

Reports have suggested that some religious leaders in the Muslim-majority deep South may have shared similar messages. The rumours have fuelled criticism on Thai social media that this might be one reason why Covid-19 has spread so quickly in the far South.

 

The Public Health Ministry reports that the number of Covid-19 cases in the deep-South provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat, Yala, Songkhla and Satun has reached 230, second only to infections in Bangkok.

 

Dozens of these tested positive after returning from religious gatherings in Malaysia and Indonesia.

 

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30385755

 

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[Crossy]

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My bold.

 

[Somtamnication]

Rumors, not fact, yet.

[RJRS1301]

I sincerely hope this is untrue.

 

[cyril sneer]

6 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

I sincerely hope this is untrue.

 

Unless the people in the video are actors, it probably isn’t..

[Farmerkev]

Unfortunately it will be the actual devoted ones, not the radical infidel haters

[metisdead]

Some troll posts have been removed. 

[essox essox]

so why WERE they allowed to travel in the first place ???

[CharlieH]

Comment on moderation and responses removed.

[Oziex1]

I suspect the manufactures of hate and division have been feeling left out recently.

Time to remind us who to fear and loathe. 

 

[Why Me]

Not to make accusations but this is an easy virus to weaponize. One person or group (bioterrorists?) who get themselves infected and then go on an infecting spree could probably start a chain reaction leading to hundreds of thousands of new cases.

 

Not to start yet another conspiracy theory but could the discrepancy between C-19 rates in the West vs. here and elsewhere be due to that shadowy organization World Equality through Viral Epidemics (WEVE)?

[Crossy]

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Some sensible responses have been removed simply because they also commented on moderation.

[transam]

After reading the OP, instantly, that Cadbury's ad came into my head...

 

 

 

[ezzra]

It was published that in France large areas populated mainly with muslims (8 millions) life is as normal and people are going about their daily business as usual, what Covid 19?...

[Cricky]

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Muslim worshippers on a "Dawah" (missionary) pilgrimage are encouraged not to be afraid of the novel coronavirus

I feel sorry for these people. Little or no education.

Without proper education it is possible for such stupid behaviour.

[sungod]

I saw on BBC many people in America of a another faith want to gather this weekend, one 'preacher' was shouting god would protect them all.

 

No matter what faith people are, it seems some are rather blind, even brainwashed to some extent?

 

The virus does not differentiate.

[dinsdale]

Just now, VYCM said:

I feel sorry for these people. Little or no education.

Without proper education it is possible for such stupid behaviour.

I think this is a generalization. How do you know they have little or no education. What you could factually say is that they have all been brainwashed. This is a fact of all religions.

[lopburi3]

1 hour ago, Somtamnication said:

Rumors, not fact, yet.

The video is not a rumor.  The fact of infection rate among those returning from Malaysia and Indonesia is not a rumor.  That many countries have banned all religious gatherings is not a rumor.  But it is not clear the video had anything to do with previous Thai visits.

[metisdead]

An off topic post has been removed.

[PatOngo]

12 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

What you could factually say is that they have all been brainwashed. This is a fact of all religions

I swear to God that's not true! ????

[Cricky]

5 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

The only fact I am interested in is that Malaysia carries out 2000 COVID tests per Million population while Thailand is only at 1000 per Million.

It's easy to fudge the figures, many countries are doing it

 

6 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

Anyway, Malaysia is safer than Thailand and religion is totally irrelevant.

Personal opinion, not interested. I feel much safer in Thailand

 

6 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

I don't think this thread should go on.

Ok, goodbye

[lopburi3]

8 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

Anyway, Malaysia is safer than Thailand and religion is totally irrelevant

Do not believe Malaysia is the subject.  But the figures do not seem to support Malaysia being safer than Thailand from COVID-19.

[Cricky]

26 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

32 minutes ago, VYCM said:

I feel sorry for these people. Little or no education.

Without proper education it is possible for such stupid behaviour.

I think this is a generalization. How do you know they have little or no education. What you could factually say is that they have all been brainwashed. This is a fact of all religions.

Whatever

[FarFlungFalang]

17 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

The only fact I am interested in is that Malaysia carries out 2000 COVID tests per Million population while Thailand is only at 1000 per Million. (Ideally this figure should be of at least 20000). Anyway, Malaysia is safer than Thailand and religion is totally irrelevant. I don't think this thread should go on.

So without doing many tests they went from roughly 300 per million to 1000 per million as quickly as the tests went from 25,000 to 70,000 like over night.

[KiaSurean]

53 minutes ago, essox essox said:

so why WERE they allowed to travel in the first place ???

Why were they allowed to returned? Did they acquired the Fit-to-fly cert from the doctors? How is it that a bunch of the returnees were found with fever if they indeed have the Fit-to-fly cert? Why are the relavant authorities having a difficult time tracking these people down when they are supposed to have verified their address with the Thai embassy prior to being able to fly home????? 

[KhunFred]

All religious elements generally consider themselves exempt from the rules. Nothing new.

[Yadon Toploy]

It is well known that only infidels can contract COVID-19.

 

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, KiaSurean said:

Why were they allowed to returned? Did they acquired the Fit-to-fly cert from the doctors? How is it that a bunch of the returnees were found with fever if they indeed have the Fit-to-fly cert? Why are the relavant authorities having a difficult time tracking these people down when they are supposed to have verified their address with the Thai embassy prior to being able to fly home????? 

The reason why they were allowed to return was, being Thai citizens, they have the right to return to their home country. The flight referred to in the article was a controlled repatriation flight from Indonesia and all the correct protocols appear to have been applied.

 

I would suspect that it was returnees from Malaysia who came by land that were the ones more likely to have brought C19 into the community. 

[Matzzon]

3 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

I sincerely hope this is untrue.

 

I advice you to take a look at the video.

[Foghorn]

Let them go ,encourage them , don’t let them near civilization after