Hearing and reading this kind of stuff breaks my heart and makes me sick and angry at the same time...

April 16, 2009

"Deluded" French Muslim starves, beats his eight children

Motivation? Making them "better Muslims." "'Deluded' French Muslim charged with starving children," from the Telegraph, April 15:

A delusional French father has been charged with starving and beating his eight children in the belief that it would make them good Muslims.

Police were alerted after a neighbour spotted one of the children, a boy of 13 who weighed just 70lbs, foraging in bins for food in the Mediterranean town of Banyuls-sur-Mer.

"The teenager was painfully thin, shivering, with bloody marks on his face, bare feet and sores. He said he had been beaten for stealing a handful of sugar," said local prosecutor Jean-Pierre Dreno.

Searching the family apartment on Saturday police found seven other children, aged seven to 17, in a state of hunger and neglect, including two girls, aged 13 and 15, who each weighed just 22kg.

The boy and two sisters have been taken to hospital and the other siblings taken into care, while their parents have been detained on charges of depriving their children of food, and physical abuse.

The father, a market worker of Moroccan origin, and his wife, an east European Muslim convert, told police they sought to raise their family in strict obedience to Islam, which they said included going without food.

There were no food supplies in the flat and the eldest girls had been taken out of class because of a French law banning headscarfs in public schools.

"The parents explained that they practised their religion scrupulously, and with a very strict diet," said the prosecutor.

The 49-year-old father told investigators he had beaten his son to cure him "because he was possessed by lies."

"We are dealing with a delusional person, this is a cult-like situation," Dreno said. "This went way beyond any kind of religious practice, however rigorous."

Commenting on the case, the Paris Mosque said the father was clearly deluded in his interpretation of Islam, stressing that even during the fasting month of Ramadan, children are exempt, along with pregnant women and the elderly.

Posted by Raymond at April 16, 2009 7:40 AM

Source: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025701.php

            Your child is a murderer and deserves to be crucified. No, really, according to those wacky christians, children who hate or lie are MURDERERS. Apparently it's now acceptable to hand out these damaging words to four-year-olds at parades and the like. And what better way than play money with cartooney images of their favorite gift giver, Santa Claus. But what’s that behind his back? Well its list of course. But only one kiddy made it on the nice list - no, not Dr. Zoidberg. Jesus.

            Now why disguise propaganda as a toy? One can simply stumble around the Custom Tract Source website to find the answer, and they aren't exactly ashamed of the truth - or is that Truth?

            For one, these "tracts,” as the site says, never eat, sleep, need shelter... Blah-dee-fuckin'-blah. We get it you can sit on your ass and toss these things out at my girlfriend’s kid, all the while thinking you can change the world. These selling points are laughable at best, but maybe the site just looked too funny without a scrollbar.

            "A tract is never embarrassed, timid nor fearful and isn't hurt by rejection." Why should anyone be fearful of calling a child a murderer in front of his parents? Should one really be embarrassed telling another that there's a magic man in the sky? That this magic man loves you, but would banish you for eternity if you don’t give the preacher money? But surely there are still several crusaders out there brazen enough to confront.

            For those it's said a tract, "never argues back," and "never flinches." Evidently a debate is best won by repeating the same chorus regardless of the rebuttal. But what really gets me is that they flat out admit it's best for those that can't debate, "It can be used by the ... uneducated, because no speaking skills are need to convey its message." The UNEDUCATED. Why, uneducated? The few with knowledge of the bible are profiting from it, and from the "uneducated." Surely that’s why.

            Though, I digress. The real crime here is the pain and worry thrown on the children. Should little Timmy really believe he’s a murderer because he didn't admit to breaking Mother's vase? Perhaps that one is up to you.