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[quote=Anonymous]"Mohammed outlined the wrongfulness of infanticide in various sections of his holy scripture. He asked, with censure ' for example, how would a father account for his actions, "When the female child that had been buried alive shall be asked for what crime she was put to death?" "

I am getting confused on who is Muslim and who is not. The above quote was presumably written by a Muslin, yet it says that Muhanned outlined in his holy scripture. The proper way to say this if one is Muslim is the Quran (not Muhammed) asks a father to account for his actions because Muhammed did not write the Quran; the Quran was revealed to him.

In any case, the quote completely distorts Sura 81 which it is paraphrasing. This sura does NOT prohibit or censure female infanticide.   It does not. not ask a father to account for his actions; there is no father in it, let alone one who is censured.  Rather, the image of a girl buried alive is used as a literary devise..

Sura 81 is an apocalyptical sura that describes the end of days. It list a number of things that are highly unlikely, even impossible as demonstrative of what happens on that day.  One of these is that the sun is wrapped in darkness, a near impossible and unexpected thing.  Another is that adult female camels are neglected. No person of the desert would neglect their camels; it is even more impossible that adult female camels would be neglected because their milk is vital for sustenance.

It is near impossible that someone would ask a child buried alive anything and if they did what crime they committed would be highly unlikely as it is a rhetorical question. It is even more unlikely one would ask a buried girl this than a buried boy. There is an element of literary irony here;  female adult camels are seen as the least likely to be neglected and female human infants who were seen as too valuless to keep alive  are seen as least likely to be asked anything.

Signs of the end of days include neglect of female camels and questions to dead female babies. The nature of end of day literature is that things happen that are against the normal course of things. The dead girl baby in this verse is not there to condemn female infanticidej she is there as a poetic device to convey an idea of the extraordinary things defying normal experience and logic that will happen on the Day of Judgment.[/quote]

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