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| No provision for child adoption in Islam |
| 2005-10-21 |
| Legal and social experts have stressed the need to galvanise individual and national efforts to prevent orphaned or lost children being handed over to adults that are not blood relations. Besides ongoing relief efforts and the reconstruction of affected areas, the government has been urged to make the protection of orphans and children a priority. According to a rough estimate, some 50,000 children have either been orphaned or separated from their parents by the earthquake. So far no programme exists to ensure the psychological rehabilitation or care of these children. The future of these children has legal, social and moral implications. Although the government has recently banned the adoption of orphans to prevent the risk of child abuse, the illegal transfer of minors into âunsafe handsâ is said to have continued. Barrister Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, while defining the current adoption policy said, âA narrow view of the adoption policy is that Islam prohibits adoption. This is derived from Quranic injunction regarding âZaydâ who was companion of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him). The Quran prohibits adoption so that no illegal heir can inherit the orphanâs property.â Nonetheless, he said, the adoption was perfectly legal as the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) himself was adopted by his grandfather and then, on the demise of his grandfather, by his uncle. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 #5 Thats because mo redefined all standards of morality and righteousness to suit himself. Therefore we have the effect where muslims have an entirely different conception of the terms "peace" "love" "grace" "tolerance" "justice" "mercy" etc. mohammed basically took a people without a great or stabel moral tradition and taught them these principles redefined by his own self-serving standards. Hence mohammed is described as just, peaceful, gentle, patient etc as basically having all the virtues and yet he actually didnt. This has forced muslims into total denial and has forced them to define these terms by mohammeds example. So what is clearly wrong becomes right because mo aaid it or did it or because the koran says its right. Morality is not then based on truth but on the word of a guy who conveniently received revealtions condoning his behavior or creating a special case everytime he got in a jam or someone started to question the many contradictions between what he said and did and the many contradiction between what he decided in one situation and what he decided in some different situation. It cant help but make even otherwise normal people crazy enough to think its in a traumatized orphans best interest to be doomed to live in a orphanage until adulthood or to live with a relative that doesnt want them or cant afford to keep them when there are tons of people in the world who would want them and would take good care of them. Only in islam is a childs property rights more important than finding them a good home. What makes me even more mad is that there are orphanages in Iraq full of Christian kids dying for a home of their own but they cant be adpoted either by Iraqi law in spite of them being Christian. It makes you sick doesnt it? Some great religion, huh? |
| Posted by: peggy 2005-10-21 18:01 |
| #5 Never mind a "moderate Muslim". Find me one who isn't a clinically certifiable sociopath. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2005-10-21 17:30 |
| #4 "The Quran prohibits adoption so that no illegal heir can inherit the orphanâs property.â Bull. The Koran prohibits adoption because Mo wanted to get it on with the wife of his adopted son. He then had a convenient "revelation" that adoptions are prohibited. Allah, the book says, wants his Prophet to enjoy himself. Dressing this stuff up with some ex post rationale is disingenuous. Mohammed was more capricious than principled; more self-serving than just. The fact that he said it all had divine sanction and must never be changed has caused inestimable damage. I hate it that so many of his followers think they can dissemble and threaten people into ignoring all this, and I hate it more that it often seems to work. |
| Posted by: Baba Tutu 2005-10-21 17:16 |
| #3 The Quran prohibits adoption so that no illegal heir can inherit the orphanâs property.â That just can't be true. Is that true? Wow. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-10-21 05:10 |
| #2 Wait, what??? And should I take the barrister as advocating a 'living Koran'? :P (Yes, oxymoronic.) |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-10-21 01:49 |
| #1 There is no provision for child adoption. There is one, however, for child molestation. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-10-21 00:28 |