Sunday 13 December 2015

ISIS orders execution of children with down syndrome


According to the Iraqi activist group Mosul Eye, ISIS' Sharia Board issued an "oral fatwa (an Islamic term for a religious decree)" to its members authorizing them to "kill newborn babies with Down's Syndrome and congenital deformities and disabled children." While difficult to monitor as much of the land is ravaged by war, activist group Mosul Eye has recorded the deaths of children with Down's syndrome and other congenital deformities. The fatwa was issued by one of Islamic States' Sharia judges, a Saudi judge named "Abu Said Aljazrawi. The move is said to further solidifies their similarities to the Nazi party as they also propagated such genocidal policies, when they considered disabled children as "burdens to the state."
The majority of the children born with Down's syndrome are those of foreign fighters who married Iraqi, Syrian, and Asian women. The group has recorded more than 38 confirmed cases of killing babies with congenital deformities and Down's syndrome. The victims were between the ages of one week to three months, killed by either lethal injection or suffocation. These deaths were reported in Mosul and Syria.



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