November 1999 How can a mere myth ruin the lives of thousands of children? In Pakistan, microcephalics-babies born with abnormally small heads-are known as 'rats' and credited with god-like powers. Believers will give them money in the hope of blessings, but unscrupulous gangs of beggars are now exploiting this ancient tradition for their own ends. They kidnap young 'rat' children - or frighten parents into handing them over-and then force them into a lifetime of begging on the streets. They are lucrative-so much so that some people allege that normal babies are benig deliberately deformed to look like microcephalics. Why else, they ask, are there so many such children in Pakistan? And until something is done to combat the myth, the helpless 'rat' children will be condemned to a life of abuse.
Comments on "The Rat Children - Pakistan"
Irish, do you have ... Irish, do you have nothing better to do? Haha??
HOW COULD YOU SAY ... HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT CHILD RAT KID IT IS RUDE?
In India? n America ... In India? n America a lot of kids born different. Yeah 8 legs girl born in India n people said she is special n some said she God. They don't marry their cousins then why? Come on people why fighting? Any thing can happen any where.
India has some of ... India has some of the most? oppressive Human Rights Violations going on! Disgusting! Poor children!
@SonnyA89 ... @SonnyA89 lepreachauns don't exist,rat children do,go and educate yourself between fantasy and fact and? lay off the meds
@SonnyA89 i am not ... @SonnyA89 i am not a christian,but i do know that christians do not marry their cousins,however it is a fact that? many muslim arabs(25-50%) and pakistanis(75%) marry their cousin,there are record numbers of rat children being born,it is a phenomena that is expanding and it will certainly continue a great deal more as generation of inbreeding generation are born into an ever diminishing gene pool,another 1000 years of incest and all muslims will look like these rats
@IRISHINFIDEL Your ... @IRISHINFIDEL Your Bible doesn't forbid marriages between cousins. Do you know how many rat children there are in Pakistan? Less than 0.01%? even. f**king illiterate drunkard. Go find your leprechaun and give him a reach around. Stupid Mick.
@LT0WnWaRi0 You ... @LT0WnWaRi0 You ever? live in any major city? There are folks in NY 10x as f**ked up as these rat people. f**king degenerate, educate yourself.
@LT0WnWaRi0 Stupid ... @LT0WnWaRi0 Stupid man when ur kid born like this, than i will ask u illitrate? person...
@LT0WnWaRi0 b***h ... @LT0WnWaRi0 b***h thank your god that your in good health, 6 fu cken b***hes like? you gave u a thumb up.. your the sick person, health is not by their hand it by gods.
@IRISHINFIDEL you ... @IRISHINFIDEL you know, more than islam, arabism is the biggest problem. and it applies to all arabs regardless of religion. so don't leave them out.?
@TaimurTatar2 Heres ... @TaimurTatar2 Heres a tip? don't force your kids to marry there cousin!
@LT0WnWaRi0 what do ... @LT0WnWaRi0 what do you know about my? country , a*****e
where are the ... where are the subtitles? i speak AMERICAN!?
@goyethe islam is ... @goyethe islam is the root cause of all the evil in the world,another 1400 years of incestous inbreeding and all of you muslim perverts will be rat children,i'm not going? to pay for your upkeep,so f**k off home and make some money begging on the streets of lahore,your pagan allah serves you well
@goyethe muslim ... @goyethe muslim inbreeding has being going on for 1400 years,older men marry their underage cousins,their children then marry their cousins,this limited gene pool gets further and further? diminished generation after generation,theis causes birth defects and mental retardations,the rat children are on the rise,all muslim countries do this,even in the UK a survey showed that 75% of muslims in bradford are inbreeders,now you sick f**ks are raping underage british girls,you need to be all deported
@goyethe I have not ... @goyethe I have not said anything wrong
Just go back to fin your sister behn chhod
When you're finished tell your sister to clean your dick for you?
@lollywoodchannel ... @lollywoodchannel what you talking about your general knowledge is very weak mate first get your facts right then write something, you have counties in america where 1 men can f**k every single women in household either sister mother or wife no relation just one to f**k only like pig. please go and clean you ass first as you have never done in your life it? might have been liked by your sis or mot or your partner but never cleaned so f**k off
@IRISHINFIDEL what ... @IRISHINFIDEL what do you mean Mentally sick here mate, I think your mental condition does't look right to me here as this video got? nothing to do with Islam or Muslims or any thing first of all you go out and wash your smelly back as you haven't clean in years and you talking about Muslims need to be sterilized ?? you guys have proved once again that you are the biggest hypocrite now f**k off
muslims are ... muslims are mentally sick from all of this inbreeding and forcing underage girls to marry their cousins,its no wonder why they want to be suicide terorists,rather than to pass on their rat genetics,all muslims? need to be sterilized,1400 years of inbreeding has made them bottom feeders
They need to be ... They need to be take this rat freaks and exterminate them before they reproduce or rape a innocent/genetic healthy women. The human genetic pool cannot be contaminate by these biologic abominations.?
@MzBUZZKILINGTON ... @MzBUZZKILINGTON dude im not trying to dismiss it all im? saying it's not necessary/compulsory and can be avoided but people end up doing it :/
@ahad0910 Islam ... @ahad0910 Islam does have information on slavery? and so does the bible. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it can be dismissed.
If stupidity had a ... If stupidity had a limit, this? myth would have surpassed it.
hot girl 1:11.... ... hot girl 1:11....id? love to knock her up.
@ahad0910 It has ... @ahad0910 It has everything to do with Islam because Islam allowed this sick and corrupt practice not only did it allow this sick and corrupt practice but it also encouraged it in the sense that Muslim prophet Mohammed married his cousin sister Zaynab bint Jahsh, and because of this Muslims think that it's a good idea to marry your cousin brother? or cousin sister
IT'S NOT AT ALL A GOOD IDEA
Good Report, even I ... Good Report, even I am Pakistani, but I never knew this reality.? Thanks for research report and posting.
@lollywoodchannel ... @lollywoodchannel Ok first of all the? Quran and Hadith give us solutions and guidance on how to live our lives not FORCE us in to anything. The only people I have seen do this are people who know very little about the religion and being a scholar of Islam myself; the religious one's either get married in the country they are in or go back home and get married....NOT TO THEIR COUSINS!!. Maybe you need to stop blaming the religion and look at how are nowadays Muslims are living......no offence :)
@ahad0910 Religion ... @ahad0910 Religion has influence over ones life in everyway so it's the religions fault for allowing incest cousin marriage if religion had discouraged it then people would? refrain from marring there cousin brothers and sisters and take it as the word of God, the sad ist thing is that Muslims knock medical science on its head because the Quran has allowed incest cousin marriage
they think that if it was harmful then the Quran would have not allowed it
@lollywoodchannel ... @lollywoodchannel Let me tell you one thing not all Muslims are bad but Islam gives a chance to every Muslim to make their free choice then judged on the day of judgement. everyone's accounted for their actions. Like I'm telling you we're adults not STUPID, I'm sure we are capable enough to make the right decisions in life. Also you can't blame the religion for anything, every religion has their ups and downs, it all depends on how a person lives? with his religion and how he understands it.PEACE
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