Iraqi's selling their children

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Abu Muhammad, a Baghdad resident, found it difficult to let go of his daughter’s hand but he had already convinced himself that selling her to a family outside Iraq would provide her with a better future.
“The war disgraced my family. I lost relatives including my wife among thousands of victims of sectarian violence and was forced to sell my daughter to give my other children something to eat,” he told Al Jazeera.
In 2006, Abu Muhammad and his family were forced to leave their home in Adhamiya, a district of Baghdad, after militia fighting claimed the streets in his once tranquil neighbourhood.
They began living in a makeshift refugee camp on the outskirts of Baghdad, but he soon lost his job and the children, unable to make the daily trek, quit school.
“There wasn’t enough money to spend on books, clothes and transport,” he said. His daughter, Fatima, the youngest of four children, began to show signs of malnourishment and a local medic said she had become anaemic.

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This is a sad state for a country, leading familes to break up, and fathers to give away there own children!

May Allah bring Iraq back to normal, and help those in need, and give us the strength to help them.
And may he destroy the oppressors and the invaders, and place them in the eternal fire. Ameen

[DeSiMuNdA]

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^^ sum-ameen...

such desperation :( i can only hope that at least a few of the children who've been given up by their parents find a good place and lead happy lives...

[Aliyish]

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Most sure!y your Lord is watching.

And as for man, when his Lord tries him, then treats him with honor and makes him lead an easy life, he says: My Lord honors me.

But when He tries him (differently), then straitens to him his means of subsistence, he says: My Lord has disgraced me

[The Daybreak, Ayat 14,15,16]

Its time , as a muslim , we should look-over our deeds . May Allah Gives HaDayat to All of us .... And help us through this scrutiny*...*

Ameen ..

[Azad]

Re: Iraqi's selling their children

Most sure!y your Lord is watching.

And as for man, when his Lord tries him, then treats him with honor and makes him lead an easy life, he says: My Lord honors me.

But when He tries him (differently), then straitens to him his means of subsistence, he says: My Lord has disgraced me

[The Daybreak, Ayat 14,15,16]

Its time , as a muslim , we should look-over our deeds .** May Allah Gives HaDayat to All of us ** .... And help us through this scrutiny*...*

Ameen ..

our humain bhi (Ameen)

[Man_with_a_Plan]

Re: Iraqi's selling their children

Extremely sad news, but the media is hell bent on neglecting this and focusing on the positive impact surge had on Iraq.