Muslim Med Students Refuse to Learn About Infidel Illnesses
Sun, Oct 7, 2007 at 10:50:19 am PDT
Muslim “medical students” in the UK are now openly refusing to learn how to treat some illnesses: Muslim medical students get picky.
Inch by inch, they’re insinuating shari’a law into every part of British society.
Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs.
Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases conflicts with their faith, which states that Muslims should not drink alcohol and rejects sexual promiscuity.
A small number of Muslim medical students have even refused to treat patients of the opposite sex. One male student was prepared to fail his final exams rather than carry out a basic examination of a female patient.
And how are the British medical assocations reacting to this dangerous development? By expelling those students?
Well, no. But they do disapprove.
The religious objections by students have been confirmed by the British Medical Association (BMA) and General Medical Council (GMC), which both stressed that they did not approve of such actions.
UPDATE at 10/7/07 11:02:50 am:
The Daily Mail has more information; the GMC says Muslim doctors who refuse parts of the curriculum will not be allowed to graduate. For now, anyway: Muslim medical students refuse to learn about alcohol or sexual diseases.
And the GMC, which regulates doctors and maintains the medical register, recently brought out a paper for medical schools explaining what to do if students ask whether they could still graduate if they omitted parts of the medical curriculum.
The document makes it clear that doctors will not be able to opt out of any part of their training despite any religious objections.
Professor Peter Rubin, chairman of the GMC’s education committee, said: ‘Examples have included a refusal to see patients who are affected by diseases caused by alcohol or sexual activity, or a refusal to examine patients of a particular gender.’
But he said trainees who refused to carry out these parts of their courses would not be allowed to graduate because ‘prejudicing treatment on the grounds of patients’ gender or their responsibility for their condition would run counter to the most basic principles of ethical medical practice.’
