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CHINESE FAMILIES WHO KILL THEIR CHILDREN
JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE GIRLS

Ever since the communists took power in China, the strict measures
they have taken against religious teaching and religious life have led the
Chinese people to undergo a material and spiritual collapse. The resem-
blance between this state of affairs in which human beings are regarded as a
group of animals (and as a result violence is seen as something completely
normal) and the atheist societies described in the Qur'an is most striking.
One of these similarities is the way that people who have female babies kill
them because of the low esteem in which their society holds daughters. This
brutal practice is described in the Qur'an as a feature of ignorant societies,
and is widespread today in China, a country that has rejected belief in Allah.
When compulsory family planning policies are combined with China's
anti-religious customs, the result is that a great many families killing their
baby daughters. Chinese families are legally allowed only one child, and if
their first baby is a girl, they frequently leave the child to die. The reason is
because, according to Chinese custom, male children are more valuable, and
if their first child is a girl, they will be unable to have a son. As a result fami-
lies kill the daughter to prevent this from happening. It is estimated that
some 1 million baby girls are abandoned to die in China every year. 1
In the Qur'an, however, it is stated that everyone, male and female, is
equal in the Sight of Allah. Allah has revealed that the only measure of su-
periority between people lies in godliness, avoiding all sin and disobedience
that might harm people in the hereafter and lead to eternal torment:
Mankind! We created you from a male and female, and made you into
peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each other. The no-
blest among you in Allah's Sight is the best in conduct. Allah is All-
Knowing, All-Aware. (Surat al-Hujurat: 13)

It is morality, not the gender of children, that matters to a believer. In
societies that do not recognize Allah, however, that have no fear of Him, nor
belief in the hereafter, terrible crimes such as killing baby girls just because
they are female can easily take place, and with the passage of time can even

Communist China’s Policy
of Oppression in East Turkestan