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Eads previously made other false statements about COVID-19 vaccines. For example, she said that shots could give people AIDS (Lead Stories debunked similar claims here and here).
It is noteworthy that Eads is not known for conducting any research on the matter. According to Google Scholar, Eads did not publish a single article about vaccines or anything else since the beginning of the pandemic.
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by: Uliana Malashenko
Was a doctor tried and executed in Malaysia for “giving the bioweapon vaccine and killing a patient” under the Nuremberg Code? No, that’s not true: Malaysia stopped executing people in 2018 and hasn’t reversed the moratorium on capital punishment since then.
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The statement contained a significant discrepancy. While capital punishment is not outlawed in Malaysia, the country introduced a moratorium in 2018. On July 10, 2022, the government confirmed its plans to abolish the death penalty. Had Malaysia returned to executions, a policy change of this magnitude would be covered by international media organizations. However, there are no such reports from credible sources.
Even though Malaysian courts continue to issue these sentences before the final legal prohibition of capital punishment, most cases are still related to drug offenses. A case involving a licensed medical professional would be a rare occurrence, drawing the media’s attention. Yet no such reports could be found.
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Neighbourhood Whatsapp group folks: DAP=PAP. We don’t want to be like Singapore. Me(choosing violence): My relatives in Singapore are middle-class professional Malays with access to NUS, halal food certified by MUIS. Mufti exists, the President is a Malay-Muslim female.
Of course there are challenges faced by Malay-Muslim population in Singapore. But to stroke racial fears during election based on experience of another country is unjustifiable. Muslim population in Singapore is around 15% while over 60+% Malaysian population follow Islam.
Philosophically the people on the Whatsapp group is arguing on the basis of having an Islamic state in Malaysia by persuading others not to vote for coalition with secular parties. But I’m a pragmatist.
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Excerpts:
The Diplomat
The city-state offers a good example of how Islam can flourish in the context of a secular state.
By Mohamed Bin Ali
March 24, 2022
As a philosophy, secularism seeks to interpret life based solely on principles derived from the material world. As a political system, secularism is commonly defined as the separation of religion from the state. Arguably, this is diametrically opposed to Islam, which maintains that religion regulates and instructs all aspects of a person’s life.
However, on a practical level, secularism does not necessarily mean the complete exclusion of religion from the public life of a society. Instead, it will be more productive to discuss secularism as it is actually understood and experienced by different societies, each in its own unique context.
Certainly, due to Islam’s outlook as a way of life, minority Muslims are bound to experience a number of challenges with regards to their relations with the secular state. In this respect, where and how should they get their religious guidance from? In return, what is the nature of the existing secular system? Some states limit the role of religion in its affairs, due to historical reasons. In other states, religion is recognized and valued within a more accommodative secular state.
In this respect, how does Singapore measure up?
Singapore is a young secular state where religion is not accorded any effective role or position in the political administration of the state. Yet, it provides people with the right to follow any religion or not to follow any. Hence, the state acknowledges the importance of religion to Singaporean society, while asserting its responsibility to maintain neutrality in the matters of religion.
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Challenging Islamism
As discussed above, minority Muslims may perceive secularism as a challenge with respect to values that obstruct them from practicing Islam as a way of life. Muslims may struggle to be good citizens of the state while being good Muslims as well.
Some have chosen to disengage themselves from the secular society while some have chosen to abandon their identities and become more liberal. Yet others have entertained the extreme idea that for Islam to flourish and manifest fully, a political system is necessary to support and strengthen that aspiration.
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Singaporean Muslims in a Secular State
How has the Muslim minority community in Singapore responded to the various challenges it faces? One of the initiatives it has embarked is the Singapore Muslim identity (SMI) initiative, which guide Muslims to be forward-looking, adaptive, and inclusive in their religious outlook. The SMI initiative reinforces the fundamental precept that as active citizens living in a secular state, they should embrace the modern world by being progressive, confident practicing Muslims with good social and religious values.
The most important asset for bringing along Singapore’s Muslim minority is its religious leadership. The religious clerics known as asatizah provide the moral compass to guide the community as they navigate the modern world whilst holding strongly to their faith. The community looks up for them in making moral decisions: how to lead their lives as good Muslims, and how to manage the multiple and often competing demands between life, on the one hand, and religion, on the other.
https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/islam-muslims-and-the-secular-state-in-singapore/
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ars technica
Beth Mole – 11/16/2022, 5:24 AM
Scandal has reached a full boil at America’s Frontline Doctors—the right-wing pseudo-medical group notorious for peddling bogus COVID-19 treatments and fear-mongering over vaccines and other safe, effective health measures.
The scandal has split the group—aka AFLDS—into warring factions, with its prominent founder, Simone Gold, accused of a slew of wrongdoing, including using the charity group’s funds to buy a $3.6 million mansion for herself and her boyfriend. She’s also accused of staging a hostile coup of the organization in the weeks since her release from federal prison for her role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection, which the group has defended.
The coup has left employees locked out of email accounts and other resources, according to a lawsuit filed by AFLDS against Gold on November 4. The lawsuit also claims Gold seized control of the group’s bank accounts, which reportedly contain at least $7.3 million. For now, it appears Gold also has control over the AFLDS website, which has been pumping out fawning and indignant press releases on her behalf. It’s in an extraordinarily sordid state, even for the ignoble group.
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Since Gold was released from prison on September 9, things have only gone downhill for AFLDS—quite dramatically, in fact. It seems that while Gold was behind bars, other leaders at AFLDS began looking over the books, noting some rather stunning problems with her use of the charity’s funds.
According to a lawsuit filed earlier this month by AFLDS and the chair of its board of directors, Joseph Gilbert, Gold bought a $3.6 million home in Naples, Florida, in November 2021 with AFLDS funds. Gold lives in the house with Strand, neither of whom paid rent to AFLDS. Gold further used AFLDS funds to subsidize her lifestyle, charging the charity $12,000 per month for a personal security officer, $5,600 per month for a housekeeper, and putting $50,000 per month on AFLDS credit cards. Strand, meanwhile, who had a $120,000 annual salary from AFLDS, charged $15,000 to $17,000 per month on AFLDS credit cards.
Around the same time, Gold bought three vehicles with AFLDS funds, including a Mercedes-Benz, the lawsuit alleges. At various times, she also took unauthorized flights on private planes, one of which cost AFLDS over $100,000.
The same month Gold bought her home, she also used AFLDS funds to rent a Florida property for AFLDS employees “AJ” and Lisa Andrzejewski. Gold agreed to put down $45,000 in advance and pay $15,000 per month for the duration of the 12-month lease with the organization’s money.
But things changed after the insurrection. On February 2, 2022—about a month before Gold pleaded guilty—she resigned from AFLDS’ board, and Gilbert was voted into the chair position. In his new role, Gilbert suggested Gold could stay on at AFLDS as a consultant. In negotiations with Gilbert for such a consulting agreement, Gold sought a signing bonus of $1.5 million and a $600,000 annual consulting fee. It’s unclear from the lawsuit if Gold got that deal.
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But then, in late summer, Gold went to prison, and Gilbert and other AFLDS board members took over running day-to-day activities at AFLDS. According to the lawsuit, the leaders were already suspicious of Gold’s use of AFLDS funds and hired a “forensic auditor” to do a deep dive into the organization’s financials.
When Gold was released in September, Gilbert informed Gold of the audit and that there would be “steps [AFLDS] would need to take as a result” of her misuse of charitable funds, according to the lawsuit. Gold initially “feigned understanding and acceptance of the steps,” but then went to war. Gold once again wielded authority over employees, tried to oust Gilbert via threatening emails to the board, and threatened to dissuade AFLDS donors from giving the charity more money unless it complied with her demands. She also allegedly told donors that Gilbert was involved in financial improprieties, ethical violations, and corruption, though the lawsuit didn’t specify her allegations against Gilbert.
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Medscape
Avery Hurt
November 10, 2022
America’s Frontline Doctors is suing one of its founders in a battle for control over the controversial group, which gained national notoriety for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines during the pandemic.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/983869
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