America’s premier anti-vaccine organization has booked a prominent member of ISIS for its 2016 conference. Majdy Iyad el Aleppo, who goes by the name Abdul-Haram, came to prominence last year when he destroyed a vast stock of polio vaccines and enslaved 12 Saudi health care workers caught immunizing Syrian children.
Speaking through a translator via Skype, Abdul-Haram said he looks forward to “visiting the infidels’ shore” to spread his anti-vaccine message. “We are very excited to meet Mr. Haram,” says Ted Harranga, Autism One spokesperson. “It is surprising how many of our beliefs overlap. I feel a real synergy here.”
Abdul-Haram has appeared in numerous ISIS online videos where he tells his followers that God will protect them from contagion as long as they “eat right and get enough exercise.” He blames vaccines for scores of problems, including club foot, razor burn, cauliflower ears, apostasy, and autism. In one video, he links the MMR vaccine to the widespread illiteracy found among ISIS fighters.
“Vaccines are part of the American-Zionist conspiracy to humiliate and crush the Caliphate,” says Abdul-Haram. He frequently calls for a “vaxed v. unvaxed study”, and refers to vaccines as “Satan’s seed.”
Also scheduled to appear at Autism One’s next annual Chicago conference are Andrew Wakefield, Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
