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<p>Muslim burial practices are being blamed for the spread of Ebola.</p> <p>Remains of Secretary General of The Nigeria Supreme General for Islamic Affairs and Seriki of Egbaland, Alhaji Lateeef Adegbite at his burial in 2012.</p> <p>Islam requires family members to personally wash the corpses of loved ones from head to toe. This practise is putting more Africans at risk to catch the disease that is spread by body fluids.</p>

The Islamists’ obsession with blood and death as commanded by Sharia Law will accelerate the spread of Ebola when the first cases of the deadly disease begin to show up in the Muslim ghettos around the country. The mixture of a politically protected minority and a politically protected virus will make a combustible healthcare crisis that we may not be allowed to stop. The insane drive of Democrats around the country to let Muslims who want to live under Sharia law to the exclusion of our laws will make controlling Ebola virtually impossible. We need only look at the three...

Islam isn't just at the heart of the terror threat posed by the Islamic State. The religion is also contributing to the other major crisis plaguing the globe: the spread of Ebola. Washington and its media stenographers won't tell you this, lest they look intolerant, but Islamic burial rituals are a key reason why health officials can't contain the spread of the deadly disease in West Africa. Many of the victims of Ebola in the three hot-spot nations there — Sierra Leone and Guinea, as well as neighboring Liberia — are Muslim. Roughly 73% of Sierra Leone's and about 85%...