The Islamic State group has reportedly authorized the killing of "newborn babies with Down syndrome and congenital deformities and disabled children," according to an Iraqi activist, reports the Mirror.
In a Facebook post, The Mosul Eye, which claims to be a blog run by a historian living in Mosul, Iraq, said that more than 38 disabled babies between the age of one week and three months have already been killed since Sharia judges issued the religious decree, or fatwa.
The Sharia Board of the Islamic State group, and specifically a Saudi judge named Abu Said Aljazrawi, reportedly issued the "oral fatwa" to its members authorizing them to kill the newborns.
The Mosul Eye said that the Islamic State group committed some of the murders by lethal injection or suffocation in Syria and Mosul, a northern Iraqi city seized by the terror group in June 2014. The activist warned that all children with disabilities are now at risk of being killed and released a video showing two disabled children who appeared to be unharmed.
Most of the children born with Down syndrome "are those of foreign fighters who married Iraqi, Syrian and Asian women," according to the group.
Mosul Eye concluded its report by saying, "As if it is not enough for ISIL to kill men, women and the elderly, and now, they kill children."
The information has not been confirmed, but the Mosul Eye has reliably reported on Islamic State group incidents in the past and has been called "one of the most accurate chronicles of life under Islamic State rule," Breitbart notes.
