Faith or safety? Covid vaccines spark religious concerns over pork gelatin, cow blood
Covid-19 vaccines may face religious hurdles in India. While Islamic clerics are divided over the acceptability of vaccines allegedly made with pork gelatin, sections of Hindu saints have demanded clarification on the use of ‘cow blood’.
New Delhi
- December 28, 2020
- UPDATED: December 29, 2020 05:00 IST
After months of research, tests and trials, Covid-19 vaccines are finally here. Vaccination will start after a final go-ahead from government and regulatory authorities.
But before vaccines can hit health centres across India, they may have to cross another hurdle. Sections of Hindu and Muslim clerics have raised concerns over some rumoured contents in Covid-19 vaccines.
While Muslim clerics are divided over alleged pork gelatin in a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine, sections of Hindu leaders have demanded clarification over the reported use of cow blood in vaccines. While consumption of pork in any form is ‘haram’ or forbidden in Islam, the cow is revered as mother and holy animal in Hinduism.
‘Pork gelatin’
Islamic ulemas or scholars in Mumbai recently declared that no Muslim will be administered Covid-19 vaccines made from pork gelatin.
“Even if a pig's hair falls in a well, water from that well is forbidden for Muslims. Hence, as per Islamic law, a vaccine which contains pig gelatin cannot treat any disease,” the decision taken at a meeting of Sunni Ulemas in Mumbai said.
However, Sunni maulvis in Lucknow differed on the subject. Speaking to India Today TV, Maulana Saif Abbaz said that Islam grants permission to use any medicine at the time of an emergency because protecting life is paramount in Islam. “If a medicine, even if it is made of un-Islamic things, can save lives, it should be consumed,” the Sunni maulvi said.
Another Sunni religious leader from Lucknow, Maulana Sufiyan Nizami, agreed with Maulana Saif Abbaz. “It is not reasonable to create rumours about a medicine which is yet not available in the market. Even if there is any non-Islamic thing used in medicine, then it is up to the doctor to decide what is necessary. It would be unbecoming to comment on it right now, let the medicine come,” Maulana Sufiyan Nizami said.
A similar decree has been issued by the UAE’s highest Islamic authority, the UAE Fatwa Council. The council has ruled that coronavirus vaccines are permissible for Muslims even if the vaccine contains pork gelatin.
Council Chairman Sheikh Abdallah bin Bayyah said that if there are no alternatives, coronavirus vaccines would not be subject to Islam's restrictions on pork because of the higher need to "protect the human body".
The council added that in this case, pork gelatin is considered medicine, not food, with multiple vaccines already shown to be effective against a highly contagious virus that "poses a risk to the entire society".
‘Cow blood’
While sections of the Muslim community have been alarmed and divided over the alleged use of pork gelatin in a certain Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Chinese, All India Hindu Mahasabha has sought clarification on the use of cow blood in all Covid-19 vaccines.
Mahasabha president Swami Chakrapani has written to President Ram Nath Kovind demanding that the government and pharmaceutical companies clarify whether Covid-19 vaccines contain cow blood.
In a memorandum to the President, Chakrapani said it should be clarified that cow blood or any such substance has not been used in the vaccine, which "hurts the spirit of Hindu Sanatan Dharma".
In the memorandum, Chakrapani expressed concern over an "international conspiracy to destroy religion by feeding cow's blood, meat or fat in the name of corona vaccine and medicine".
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The concerns over ‘unreligious’ contents of Covid-19 vaccines are not limited to Hindus or Muslims. Sections of the Christian community across the world are also debating the acceptability of vaccines due to the alleged use of fetal tissue from abortions.
Abortion is considered a grave sin among Catholic Christians.
After a series of conflicting pronouncements by bishops across the world, the Vatican -- the highest seat of Catholic Christianity -- declared that it is “morally acceptable” for Roman Catholics to receive Covid-19 vaccines based on research that used cells derived from aborted fetuses.
The Vatican concluded that “it is morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses” in the research and production process when “ethically irreproachable” vaccines aren’t available to the public.
The Vatican statement came after some churchmen in the United States argued that such products were immoral.
https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/vaccine-updates/story/religious-hurdle-for-covid-19-vaccines-religious-leaders-raise-concern-over-pork-gelatin-cow-blood-in-vaccines-1753992-2020-12-28
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中国製ワクチンは「ハラル」 イスラム教徒最多国で認証
2021年1月15日 8時0分 朝日新聞デジタル
世界最多のイスラム教徒を抱えるインドネシアで新型コロナウイルスの中国製ワクチンが戒律に沿う「ハラル」と認証され、ジョコ大統領が第1号として13日に接種した。
接種を義務化し罰則も設けた政府に、反発する声も上がっている。
首都の大統領宮殿でこの日の朝、マスク姿のジョコ氏が左腕の半袖をまくり、中国のシノバック製ワクチンの接種を受ける姿がテレビ中継された。ジョコ氏は「大流行から解放される努力が始まった。接種が順調に進むことを願う」とツイート。大臣らも接種し、国民の間にシノバック製ワクチンへの懸念が根強いなか、政権を挙げて効果や安全性をPRした。
同国では過去に、髄膜炎や風疹のワクチンが、原料に豚肉成分を使わないことなどイスラム教の戒律に沿う「ハラル」かどうかが国民的議論となった。政府は「仮にハラルでなくても緊急時は接種しなければ害が大きい」(副大統領)と強調。ハラル認証を担うインドネシア・ウラマ評議会(MUI)も中国で製造工程を確認した上で「戒律に反しない」との見解を示した。
同国では最近、新規感染者が連日1万人前後まで増加している。政府は接種を国民の義務とし「ワクチン接種は免疫を作る」「一緒に流行を抑え込もう」といった歌詞の歌も作って国民にアピールする一方、法務人権省副大臣は11日、接種を拒めば「最長1年の禁錮か最大1億ルピア(約73万円)の罰金が科せられる可能性がある」と述べた。
一方、政府が大量に輸入したシノバック製ワクチンは、国内の治験で確認された効果は65・3%にとどまる。効果や安全性への懸念から、ジョコ氏が所属する闘争民主党の議員が接種を拒み、「罰金を払う方がいい。人権侵害で強制すべきではない」と声明を12日に出すなど足並みの乱れも出ている。(ジャカルタ=野上英文)
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豚!牛!中絶!逃げ場なしww!!
ワクチンから宗教利権の瓦解が
そんな感じになりますかね
簡単に数を用意出来ないし
多分どの信仰者でも
禁忌@踏み絵を足蹴に
ワクチン接種していそう
日本は先進国のデータ
参考に出来るけど
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