Swine Flu Swindle

From the article, “Swine-Flu Hysteria,” by Bret Stephens in today’s Wall Street Journal :

“In the matter of swine flu — and the single dumbest response to it yet — first prize was about to go to the government of Egypt, which last week ordered a cull of the country’s estimated 400,000 pigs, never mind that the disease, name notwithstanding, is mainly transmitted human-to-human.

“But then an Egyptian health official admitted “the authorities took advantage of the situation to resolve the question of disorderly pig rearing.” More likely, as the country’s Coptic minority was quick to suspect, was that health and sanitation were merely pretexts to extend anti-Christian bigotry into matters of livelihood and diet.”

About Stan Guthrie

Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers. Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's €œTell Me More,€ WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio'€™s €œNew Day Florida.€ A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
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