Islamic State issues decree to kill children with Down’s Syndrome

The militant Islamic State (IS) has issued a decree allowing its activists to execute newborns and children suffering from Down’s syndrome.

The outfit has already killed no less than 38 newborns and children, of ages one week to three months, affected by deformities, according to reports.

Reports suggest the ‘fatwa’ was issued by one of the ‘Sharia’ judges Abu Said Aljazrawi as quoted by a blogger of the activist group Mosul Eye. “We stand by what we published on our page, every word of it.”

“They were killed by either lethal injection or suffocation; some of those killings took place in Syria and Mosul,” according to the Facebook post published by Mosul Eye.

“...you don’t know how we live! It’s severe life. ISIL are savage gangs...inhuman and terrorists...they already killed their members whom can’t be treated medically,” said a resident of Mosul Omar Aliraqi while responding to Mosul Eye Facebook post.

Some Facebook users likened the act to those by Nazis, who murdered disabled children as it was a “burden on the state”.

Facebook users reacted with pain: “I have just shed tears for these babies. I have two children with special needs, my heart is breaking. They are worse than the Nazis,” said a British lady.

The article first appeared on Hindustan Times