{"id":38397,"date":"2020-03-16T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38397"},"modified":"2020-03-16T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T14:35:57","slug":"i-suppose-this-is-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38397","title":{"rendered":"I Suppose This Is Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> reported yesterday that ISIS is advising terrorists not to travel to Europe for jihad. It’s a little ironic to me that ISIS is protecting its members from the flu while instructing them to engage in suicide missions.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

ISIS\u2019\u00a0al-Naba newsletter contains \u201csharia directives\u201d urging its healthy members not to enter \u201cthe land of the epidemic\u201d to avoid becoming infected, the New York Post reported<\/a> Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But any sick jihadists already in Europe should stay there \u2014 presumably, to sicken infidels, the paper reported. The Sunday Times of London first reported on the newsletter, according to the paper.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The \u201chealthy should not enter the land of the epidemic and the afflicted should not exit from it,\u201d the ISIS newsletter advises, according to the Post.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Ten people have died from the coronavirus in Iraq, where 110 cases have been reported, according to John Hopkins University which is tracking the endemic. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Europe is now the virus’ epicenter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran has also become an epicenter for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

On February 28, The New Yorker<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

Iran, a country of eighty-three million people, has now become one of the global epicenters of the coronavirus\u2014with the highest mortality rate in the world. Based on official numbers, the mortality rate in Iran has fluctuated daily, between eight and eighteen per cent, compared to three per cent in China and less everywhere else. Iran is also unique, because a disproportionate number of confirmed cases are senior government officials. On Thursday, the Vice-President, Masoumeh Ebtekar\u2014who gained fame in 1979 as Sister Mary, the spokeswoman for the students who seized the U.S. Embassy and took fifty-two Americans hostage\u2014announced that she, too, had contracted the coronavirus. The day before, she had attended a meeting with President Hassan Rouhani and his cabinet. Two members of parliament, including the chairman of the Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, have also been infected, as has the mayor of a district in Tehran and a senior cleric who had served as Iran\u2019s Ambassador to the Vatican. One of the lawmakers, Mahmoud Sadeghi, tweeted on Tuesday, \u201cI send this message in a situation where I have little hope of surviving in this world.\u201d The former Vatican Ambassador, who was eighty-one, died on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article in The New Yorker notes:<\/p>\n

The first mention of the disease by the government was a report of two deaths in the city on February 19th. Initial reports indicate that the carrier of the virus may have been a merchant who travelled between Qom and Wuhan, in China, where COVID<\/em>-19 is believed to have originated. The outbreak is estimated to have begun between three and six weeks ago, which would mean that the two Iranians who died could have been sick and infecting others for weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fact that the virus has impacted many high-level officials in Iran might be the result of the close relations between the Chinese government and the Iranian government. It seems that China’s failure to tell the truth about the virus has impacted both their friends and their enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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