George Harrison Quotes
Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.
Harrison, George. "Cockamamie Business." Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989, Dark Horse Records, 1989.
A good example is Malaria. It is spread by mosquitos, mostly in the warmer seasons when they breed in large numbers. If there are longer warm seasons, there will be a longer transmission season and more people will be infected with Malaria. Similar situations exist with many other diseases.
This quotation illustrates one of the contemporary problems that Muslims face. The problem of overeating and especially obesity are now known to be serious health problems. The Prophet had called attention to this while the majority of the world, afraid of starvation, considered obesity and overeating as a sign of affluence and health. In that sense the Prophet provided sound medical advice. However, for those Muslims who take the words of the Prophet literally, they take the statement literally and therefore pay little or no attention to immunization, water pollution, sanitation other than specified by the Prophet. To them, there are no other causes of disease because Muhammed said so. The wisdom from Aristotle to Einstein typically moved knowledge and mankind ahead with new and critical insights and revelations but all were wrong in some respects and future science has determined that. But for the fundamentalist Muslim, there can be no error in the word of the Prophet, just as for the fundamentalist Christian or Jew, there can be no error in their Bibles. Although valid for Muslims, the Hadith is less well known than the Koran which is recited by all good Muslims.
Microcephaly is a condition where newborn children have very small heads, the the brain cannot develop sufficiently to normally function. Almost all Americans had heard about microcephaly and the Zika virus that caused the condition in pregnant women, but it has been in South America, Latin America and Puerto Rico. When people have friends, coworkers and family who have a serious medical condition, they believe it is a serious problem that needs society’s attention. At the time Fauci made this statement Americans on the mainland had not yet seen any cases, Zika was unfortunately not taken seriously enough.
George Harrison MBE was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work. Although the majority of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. His songs for the group include "Taxman", "Within You Without You", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something".
