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Originally Posted by Livia
If she wasn't beating him over religious text, then it would have been something else. This is like blaming the evil doings of non-believers - and there are many - on the fact that they don't believe in God. You cannot indict all religion because of one nutter. And as Salman says, this goes against Islamic teaching.
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I was just giving a reason why people are tying the two together. I wouldn't blame this solely on Islam. Like I mentioned, I don't think this story happens if she is teaching him a nursery rhyme. However, she would almost certainly have been abusive, but I don't think this little boy dies if you take religious text out of this unfortunate news story.
It's just an opinion, and not necessarily a correct one, but the importance of this text to the mother obviously increased her anxiety around it.
There are many issues with with to slam Islam/Abrahamic faiths on, and I don't think this is the main one, but I do sincerely think that if the text was changed, we wouldn't even be aware of this abusive mother.