AIDS victims buried alive in Papua New Guinea
Every week I get an email asking me how I can write that Islam promotes savagery and brutality when in fact Christianity is guilty of many evils yet I say nothing.
Actually these readers have not bothered to check my archives. I rage against Christians when they act like Muslims, check out my articles on Christianity. Although not as numerous as my articles on Islam, Christianty has no Kevlar against my blog knife.
I often criticize Christians for their silliness on contraception; indeed the main reason that AIDS is so intractable throughout the third world is precisely because of Christian idiots who keep condoms from being used (1).
Africa is home to two-thirds of all AIDS cases. One only has to view an AIDS Map of Africa to plainly see that Christian countries have the highest incidence of AIDS.
Let me add this post to my archive of articles where I criticize Christians. Let's look at countries outside of Africa, for instance take the predominantly Christian nation of Papua New Guinea which has the highest incidence of HIV in the Pacific region. It is estimated that 2% of the adult population, approximately 64,000 people, are now HIV positive (2).
Much of this can be attributed to Christian organizations stressing abstinence instead of condoms. The misplaced emphasis on abstinence, which is a tremendous failure (3), has only led to more people living in misery and disease. This is not to say that Muslims do not believe in abstinence but rather that in Islam contraceptives do not violate chastity as it does in Christianity.
Sadly Christians in PNG are so sadly lacking in sexual knowledge that they do not even understand how AIDS is spread and to prevent themselves from getting infected they have resorted to burying family members alive (4).
Christian organization have to stop telling people not to use condoms. I think the sin of burying a living person alive is greater than the sin of preventing a birth. Centuries ago, Christians stopped stoning women for adultery, it's time to step up to modern civilization and realize that family planning perhaps is really the salvation of most of the poor peoples of this world.
Related:
Smooth Stone,
AIDS victims 'buried alive' in Papua, New GuineaWhere is the outrage? Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International go after Israel for defending its citizens against barbaric terrorists, but are curiously silent regarding New Guinea burying its own citizens alive.
CAVEAT (30 Aug 2009): Rhonda Roland Shearer of stinky journalism.org has some strong arguments against believing that the AIDS-burial story is true.
If further evidence indicates that this story's untrue, I will update here.
ENDNOTES
(1):
bnet, African perspective on AIDS crisis differs from West
... religion is an important factor: places with low AIDS prevalence "have either a predominantly Muslim or a non-Western (deeply indigenous) Christian influence." In contrast, places with high AIDS prevalence "have a predominantly Western Christian influence."
(2):
AudAid, HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea
PNG has the highest incidence of HIV in the Pacific region. It is estimated that 2% of the adult population, approximately 64,000 people, are now HIV positive.
Heterosexual transmission is the predominant means of infection. While approximately equal numbers of men and women are currently affected, young women and older men are disproportionately affected.
(3):
Boston Globe, Abstinence and AIDS
December 1, 2006
FROM AFRICA, the continent most afflicted with the HIV-AIDS epidemic, the news is mixed at best on this World AIDS Day. But in the United States, the nation that surpasses all others in its AIDS funding in Africa, there is one solid piece of good news. Thanks to the change of power in Congress, US-financed prevention programs could be freed of the requirement that one-third of all their funding go to abstinence-only efforts.
There is a definite role for abstinence, especially among the young, where the training has been shown in some cases to delay the age of first sexual activity. Abstinence-only programs, however, are of little help to some of those most vulnerable to infection, including impoverished young women under pressure to have sex for economic or cultural reasons.
(4):
inquirer.net, 27 Aug 2007, AIDS victims 'buried alive' in Papua New Guinea
AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG
Some AIDS victims are being buried alive in Papua New Guinea by relatives who cannot look after them and fear becoming infected themselves, a health worker said Monday. Margaret Marabe, who spent five months carrying out an AIDS awareness campaign in the remote Southern Highlands of the South Pacific nation, said she had seen five people buried while still breathing.
One was calling out "Mama, Mama" as the soil was shoveled over his head, said Marabe, who works for a volunteer organisation called Igat Hope, Pidgin English for I've Got Hope.
"One of them was my cousin, who was buried alive," she told reporters.
"I said, 'Why are they doing that?' And they said, 'If we let them live, stay in the same house, eat together and use or share utensils, we will contract the disease and we too might die.'"
Villagers had told her it was common for people to bury AIDS victims alive.
