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-The murder of girls is a direct result of ancient Hindu texts or-
daining cruelty to women. This vicious tradition is ordained, sanc-
tioned and traced back to Aryan texts: “Hence they [Aryans] reject
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a female child when born, and take up a male.” The Atharva Veda
commands, « Let a female child be born somewhere else; here, let a
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male child be born” A woman giving birth to a daughter feels she
has committed a crime. Killing newly born baby girls is seen as an
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The inhuman practices girls are subjected to has existed through-
out history in various societies that did not practice religious morality.
This Aryan practice existed in many other cultures as well, and one of
these was the pre-Islamic Arab society. Allah reveals that Arabs did not
value baby girls, and that they buried them alive straight after birth; they
will be brought to justice for this sin on the Day of Judgment:

When the baby girl buried alive is asked for what crime she was
killed, (Surat at-Takwir: 8-9)

In another verse, Allah reveals that the idolaters were wrong to feel
shame for having conceived a girl:
When one of them is given the good news of a baby girl, his face
darkens and he is furious. He hides away from people because of the
evil of the good news he has been given. Should he keep her igno-
miniously or bury her in the earth? What an evil judgment they
make! (Surat an-Nahl: 58-59)
In the following verse Allah states that this practice is madness:
When any of them is given the good news of the very thing which he
himself has ascribed to the All-Merciful his face darkens and he is
furious. (Surat az-Zukhruf: 17)
Allah reveals with the following verse that it is Him Who deter-
mines the sex of each human being:

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