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malaise

(268,701 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:22 AM Jan 2019

Therefore the United States of America exists today because of Muslim women in Turkey

Send this to your Musllim hating RW family and friends


https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/how-muslims-won-the-american-war-of-independence/
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The one factor which led to the defeat of the Northern Army in Canada and the Continental Army’s success after was ….[drumroll]…. smallpox.


The British are believed to have started biological warfare on the continent — by sending prostitutes infected by smallpox into the American camps. (Another reason perhaps why the infections have been played down in American popular history.) Washington, a survivor from an infection at age 19, made sure all of his soldiers were protected using a new fangled technique which had only just started to be introduced from Britain. This was much against political opposition as it was risky. The soldiers stood a chance of dying from “full blown” smallpox and many were left with scarring from the pustules which are a feature of the disease.

The method used by Washington was called variolation and involved the use of small amounts of live smallpox virus from the pustules of a sufferer. A small cut was made and the puss applied. This is where we start on our gallop back the Islamic world.

Variolation was introduced to England by a Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 — 21 August 1762) whose portrait is at the top. Like Washington, she was a smallpox survivor and had terrible facial scars as a result. The portraits do not show them, painters at the time knew what their clients wanted! Lady Mary is one of those extra-ordinary Enlightenment women whose writings are better known than her contribution to modern medicine.

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