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Hygiene and Islam?

by darkon <darkon.tdo@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Feb 4, 2008 at 06:56 PM

According to the Telegraph, "Muslim medical students are refusing to 
obey hygiene rules brought in to stop the spread of deadly superbugs, 
because they say it is against their religion."

The Islamic Medical Association says that covering all the body 
in public is a tenet of Islam, and so the spokesman suggested 
elbow-length disposable gloves.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/03/nislam403.xml

http://tinyurl.com/ys93u4

I doubt that keeping your forearms covered is a tenet of Islam.
It seems more likely that the Koran suggests modesty and over the
centuries the practice has calcified into silly rules about what
can and cannot be displayed.  If these people want to be medics
then hygiene should come before modesty.
 




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darkon <darkon.tdo@[EM  2008-02-04 18:56:15 
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Peter Boulding <pjb@[E  2008-02-04 20:06:52 
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darkon <darkon.tdo@[EM  2008-02-04 20:11:48 
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Opus the Penguin <opus  2008-02-04 20:58:26 
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Peter Boulding <pjb@[E  2008-02-05 10:06:29 
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darkon <darkon.tdo@[EM  2008-02-04 20:15:48 
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huey.callison@[EMAIL PROT  2008-02-04 15:04:25 
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Opus the Penguin <opus  2008-02-04 21:23:53 
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Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAI  2008-02-04 22:22:44 
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ebenZEROONE@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-02-05 08:07:13 
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xhoster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-02-05 16:56:31 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-02-05 07:00:57 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-02-06 17:49:40 
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huey.callison@[EMAIL PROT  2008-02-06 15:16:16 
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raven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-02-06 22:59:33 
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groo <afcagroo@[EMAIL   2008-02-12 04:25:43 
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Les Albert <lalbert1@[  2008-02-12 08:55:26 
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darkon <darkon.tdo@[EM  2008-02-13 14:33:36 
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Peter Ward <me@[EMAIL   2008-02-13 17:26:22 
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darkon <darkon.tdo@[EM  2008-02-07 19:19:43 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-02-11 20:47:57 
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Bill Turlock <"Bi  2008-02-11 22:08:07 
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darkon <darkon.tdo@[EM  2008-02-05 21:48:24 
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"Charles Wm. Dimmick  2008-02-05 18:40:33 
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darkon <darkon.tdo@[EM  2008-02-05 19:45:38 
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Bill Turlock <"Bi  2008-02-05 13:17:18 
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Jerry Bauer <usenet@[E  2008-02-05 18:09:00 
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darkon <darkon.tdo@[EM  2008-02-06 14:54:45 
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