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Tom the Dancing Bug
By Ruben Bolling
Tank McNamara
By Bill Hinds
Stone Soup
By Jan Eliot
The Born Loser
By Art and Chip Sansom
Andy Capp
By Reg Smythe
Wizard of Id
By Parker and Hart
That is Priceless
By Steve Melcher
Frank and Ernest
By Thaves
Non Sequitur
By Wiley Miller
Broom Hilda
By Russell Myers
Calvin and Hobbes
By Bill Watterson
FoxTrot
By Bill Amend
In the Bleachers
By Ben Zaehringer
The Grizzwells
By Bill Schorr
Rip Haywire
By Dan Thompson
Like so much that is has been and is being written about Islam and the Israeli/Palestinian “conflict,” the claim that there is an out break of polio in Gaza and that Islam forbids vaccinations per se is a blatant fabrication.Due to the fact that some vaccines contain porcine gelatine as a stabilizer, sharia law in most Moslem countries considers these vaccines to be “haram,” or forbidden. All other vaccines are considered “halal,’” or acceptable. In fact, according to the UN’s World Health Organization, immunization rates in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, polio vaccine coverage was 99% in 2022 before declining to 89% after the war on Gaza began. So much for the “Islam forbids vaccinations” claim.As for the Gazan “polio outbreak”, to date, NO associated paralytic cases have been recorded in Gaza according to WHO, but the polio virus has been detected in some of the wastewater flowing between displacement camps. Therefore it is not unreasonable that an outbreak of the disease could occur due to the devastation of the Gaza health system (22 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are non-functional and the remaining 12 are only partially so), the constant displacement of Gazans, the shortages of medical supplies, the unavailability of uncontaminated water, and the wide-scale destruction of sanitation facilities.