Pakistanis Gather for Prayers Defying COVID-19 Advisory 🦠😮

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Religious leader, Abdul Aziz, held service at the Red Mosque in Islamabad where followers gathered standing shoulder to shoulder filling the hall to capacity essentially defying social distancing. Aziz is quoted saying “If death is written for you, then it will come". Pakistan has started easing the nationwide lockdown this week in an effort to help their economy and
unemployment.

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Source: Pakistanis gather for Friday prayers defying coronavirus advisory
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Location: Islamabad, Pakistan


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Improper behavior of the preacher. The rules are to be followed.

I don't know anything about Islamabad and the laws of the state but the four of you are right about one thing. Whether or not social distancing is practised the number or the rate through which the virus is slated to spread will still spread, however if there's Social distancing, it's sure to take a shorter time. However it's better to not act like this Muslim cleric saying if they die they die I mean do they even consider they have a part to play in eradicating this virus?

As I ave commented in previous posts about similar cases, the best thing a religious person can do if they trully believe in their god is to defy the law of men and trust that whatever outcome will be god's will. I think that considering the many cases of rebellious religious groups (christian, mulsim, hindu, jews, etc.) who have kept meetings regardless of the lockdowns, the number of cases in those groups must be really low. They will end up attibuting their "immunity" to their god,but something tells me that the explanation lies somewhere else. Maybe the virus was not what they told us, maybe the numbers have been tampered with for political and economic purposes.

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