I should have said, "...disabled babies are not allowed to live, particularly if they're girls, in extremist Islamic cultures."

I'm sorry for any offense I gave in the prior message.

Kat


"St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, of course they're more concerned about the dead than the living... or should I say, "living dead," or "unclean?"  To be truthful I know less about Islamic culture than any other third world culture I studied in my Anthro grad school classes, but from what I vaguely remember, disabled babies are not allowed to live, particularly if they're girls.  Someone please correct me if I'm wrong in this.

Unfortunately, infanticide of babies born with disabilities is all too common outside industrialised nations.