Coronavirus vaccine raises concern among Muslims over halal status
As companies race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and countries scramble to secure doses, questions arise about the use of pork products banned by some religious groups.
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Updated Dec. 20, 2020
JAKARTA, Indonesia â In October, Indonesian diplomats and Muslim clerics stepped off a plane in China. While the diplomats were there to finalize deals to ensure millions of doses reached Indonesian citizens, the clerics had a much different concern: Whether the COVID-19 vaccine was permissible for use under Islamic law.
As companies race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and countries scramble to secure doses, questions about the use of pork products â banned by some religious groups â has raised concerns about the possibility of disrupted immunization campaigns.
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Published December 20, 2020 •
Updated on December 20, 2020 at 8:17 pm
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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee recommended Sunday that the next groups to receive the COVID-19 vaccines in the coming weeks should be people ages 75 and older and front-line essential workers.
The United States added a record of nearly a quarter-million coronavirus cases in the past day. Along with 249,709 new cases, there were an additional 2,814 reported deaths nationwide in the past 24 hours. That pushed the confirmed U.S. death toll past 313,000, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
California led the case surge with 48,221 more infections. Almost 17,000 people are hospitalized in California and health officials are scrambling to find enough beds for patients. Texas, Florida, New York and Tennessee all registered more than 10,400 new cases.
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A video has recently emerged of a man, who identifies himself as Muslim, trying to dissuade people from taking the COVID-19 vaccine which is being rolled out across the world because it is not halal.
The man claims that the vaccine will harm people in the community, that the vaccine is haram haram haram (something which is forbidden in Islam) and that it is cultured from aborted fetuses.
The man in the video then goes on to confront another man before shouting towards other Muslims that they are sellouts and says, You are infecting our people, that is what you are doing. Don t take the vaccine, please don t take the vaccine, it is poison.