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Paranoia is the first symptom of a plague. Nicholas Powers, The

Indypendent, Oct 28, 2014
The Ebola virus has assumed every single form of terror
imaginable. It has resulted in the closure of borders. It has seen
people targeted by means of quarantine. It has also become the
basis for stigmatising, condemning, and targeting. Groups have
become fair game. Some have cited acts of racial abuse. Others
claim that homosexual groups are receiving a degree of unhealthy scrutiny.
The crestfallen LGBT activist Leroy Ponpon told Reuters of his woes:
Since church ministers declared Ebola was a plague set by God to punish sodomy
in Liberia, the violence towards gays has escalated. Theyre even asking for the
death penalty. Were living in fear.[1]
In May, Archbishop Lewis Zeigler of the Catholic Church of Liberia showed that he going through
a dry spell in religious discourse. Ebola was the perfect opportunity to strike with a rather far
fetched exegesis. Homosexuality was a terror, indeed one of the major transgressions against
God for which He may be punishing Liberia for.

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The Liberian Council of Churches was also pent up with anger against the anal pursuing habits
that had brought misfortune upon the country. God is angry with Liberia, and that Ebola is a
plague. Short on scripture, but heavy on the literacy of doom, the statement continued to insist
that, Liberians have to pray and seek Gods forgiveness over the corruption and immortal acts
(such as homesexualism, etc.) that continue to penetrate our society.[2] For Liberias Wilmot
Kotati Bobbroh of the Living Water Pentecostal Church, there was only one solution: Gods
all-healing mercy (Religious News Service, Aug 11).
Ebola channelled as a prejudice that cleanses the society of suggested wickedness is a perfectly
decent narrative for some preachers and the bible bashing radio hummers. Oklahoma
conservative Christian radio host Rick Miles is happy to read the disease into the morality play
book. External conditions are the doing of internal faults. Terrible diseases are only ever as bad
as the moral quality of the people who are infected. Ebola may be the great attitude adjustment
that I believe is coming. Ebola could solve Americas problems with atheism, homosexuality,
sexual promiscuity, pornography and abortion.[3]
The fear of disease is a poorly fastened mask that, when removed, reveals something far more
descriptive and raw. Theres nothing like a new outbreak, observes Kei Miller, to have
countries fall back on old prejudices, fortifying their borders against diseases that will slip in
nonetheless like the most cunning refugees.[4]
African diaspora members face the prospects of restrictions in travel. Rumours have been
circulating for some time that treatment of the illness is a pretext for taking resources. Poison the
states people, and you will go far. These people (NGOs), Luxembourg-based David Foka,
President of African body Maison dAfrique, arrive in their country, dressed like men on the
moon. They spray people with chemicals and people start to run.[5] Health centres are being
emptied in Sierra Leone for one vital reason: the locals fear being killed off instead of being
healed.
Then there is the traditional prejudice that has no coherent target. Kagure Mugo suggests in
the Mail & Guardian(Nov 21), that many in the West are convinced that anyone with a tan from
out of their local area has the disease.[6] But Mugo admits that the phenomenon is not confined
to developed countries, or those of the West. South Africa, heavily populated with workers from
other parts of the continent, is prime territory for suspicion. I recently contracted summer flu and

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thus had the delightful experience of coughing and sniffling on South African public transport
while looking very much East African.
It has reached institutional proportions, with Morocco citing the Ebola outbreak in three west
African countries as the reason why it decided to pull out of the African Nations Cup for January
2015. All the more dire for the fact that Morocco was scheduled to host the event. The reason
is, went a statement from the countrys sports ministry, dictated by health reasons because of
the serious threat of Ebola and the risk of it spreading.[7]
Moroccan authorities were visited, in turn, by the relocation decision by producers to move
production of Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice from the Moroccan desert to the sands of
New Mexico (Moroccan World News, Nov 21). All of this, despite not having a single reported
case of the virus striking in the country.

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The hypocrisy on dealing with Ebola was all too evident in the address to the UN Security Council
by Australias foreign minister, Julie Bishop. Prejudice is a protean creature, self-condemning
even as it launches into the next attack. The statement read by Bishop expressed concern by
members about the detrimental effect arising from trade and travel restrictions and acts of
discrimination against the nationals of Guinea, Liberia, Mali and Sierra Leone.
The same minister is also a member of the government that announced last month that it would
cease granting temporary visas to visitors from West Africa. The categories of refusal cover
humanitarian and immigration visa applications, while those with existing visas must submit to a
21-day quarantine period before arriving.[8] The mask of sympathy has well and truly come off.
Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures
at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com

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Notes
[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/23/us-foundation-ebola-liberia-gayidUSKCN0IC1GV20141023?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/06/god-is-angry-with-liberia-ebolais-a-plague/
[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/07/rick-wiles-ebola_n_5658481.html
[4] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/10/ebola-is-frightening-so-are-prejudices-outbreaksprovoke
[5] http://www.wort.lu/en/luxembourg/ebola-virus-africans-in-luxembourg-snubbed-because-of-ebola-fears546dfad80c88b46a8ce3f4b8
[6] http://mg.co.za/article/2014-11-21-youre-from-kenya-got-ebola
[7] http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/08/africa-cup-nations-jeopardy-morocco-ebola-fears
[8] http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/oct/28/australia-immigration-ebola-west-africa-video

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