Pakistanis stoning babies to death (1 Viewer)

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The lifeless bodies of two tiny babies are being given their final bath before burial in Karachi, after they were left to die in the southern Pakistani city's garbage dumps.
"They can only have been one or two days old," says volunteer worker Mohammad Saleem, pointing at the two small corpses being gently washed by his colleagues at a charity's morgue.

In the conservative Muslim nation, where the birth of children outside of marriage is condemned and adultery is a crime punishable by death under strict interpretations of Islamic law, infanticide is a crime on the rise.

More than 1,000 infants -- most of them girls -- were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan last year according to conservative estimates by the Edhi Foundation, a charity working to reverse the grim trend.

The infanticide figures are collected only from Pakistan's main cities, leaving out huge swathes of the largely rural nation, and the charity says that in December alone it found 40 dead babies left in garbage dumps and sewers.

The number of dead infants found last year -- 1,210 -- was up from 890 in 2008 and 999 in 2009, says the Edhi Foundation manager in Karachi, Anwar Kazmi.
Tragic tales abound.

"People leave these children mostly because they think they are illegitimate, but they are as innocent and loveable as all human beings," says the charity's founder, well-known humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi.

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what: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110117/lf_afp/pakistanchildreninfanticide

 

[kaz1]

only in muzlamb

 

[cosmo kramer]

Should just legalise abortion. This is probably a eugenic practice in that the kind of people who are likely to have children out of wedlock are going to be members of the least effective elements of Pakistani society. More importantly, it is very healthy for a society to have a strong taboo against out of wedlock births (marriage is a stabilizing evolutionary institution that more strongly ensures a high investment parental style, and discouraging births out of wedlock puts a powerful cultural restraint on destructive libertine sexual and reproductive practices), but yet again the Muslim world has taken a positive cultural norm too far, as it always does. First trimester liquidations would more than suffice.

 

[davidbarnes]

That is terrible. However that article does not say they were stoned.

 

[meilz92]

innocent babies wouldnt be dying if it werent for islam's shit laws.
hence islam kills babies.

 

[Flip2Flow]

That's dog hard