Muslim fasting causes retarded babies.

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Pregnant women told not to fast during holy Ramadan

By Divya Talwar BBC Asian Network

Pregnant woman Fasting is not advised in pregnancy

Pregnant women who fast during Ramadan could be putting the health of their unborn baby at risk, according to a new study.

Fasting during the month is one of the five pillars of Islam, although pregnant women are exempt if it poses a risk to their health.

However, some Muslim women still choose to fast, despite the health implications.

Aanisa Butt, 32, fasted during both of her pregnancies.

“I wouldn’t fast every day, I would do one day of fasting followed by a day of rest. Doing alternate days helped me keep my energy levels up,” she said.

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and a time when Muslims across the world fast from dawn until sunset.

“When Ramadan falls in the summer, it can be really difficult to stay without food and water the whole day and if you’re pregnant it is even more hard,” said Aanisa.

“But I wasn’t worried about my health or my baby’s. I think Allah gives you strength and he protects your unborn child.”

Aanisa Mum-of-two who fasted during both pregnancies during Ramadan

Although Aanisa gave birth to two healthy sons, if women fast for long hours during their pregnancy it can result in problems for their unborn child.

A study by scientists in the United States, based on census data from the US, Iraq and Uganda, found that pregnant women who fast are likely to have smaller babies who are more prone to learning disabilities in adulthood.

The researchers from Columbia University found that this trend was most marked if mothers-to-be fasted early on in their pregnancy and during the summer when longer days meant they went more hours without food.

Religious leaders say pregnant women shouldn’t attempt to fast as it puts the health of their unborn baby at risk.

Exempt

Imam Madani Abdur Rahman, from London, says Islam does give pregnant women options.

Nuala Close Nurse Nuala Close says pregnant women should seek advice during Ramadan

“We have to assess the situation, if the doctor says fasting could cause problems for the mother or her baby, then women should not fast. Health must always come first,” he added.

Pregnant women who request an exemption from fasting are expected to make up the days they have missed after the baby is born.

Nuala Close is a nurse at Barts and London Hospital. She says many women do not make use of this provision.

“If women are exempt from fasting they have to make it up at another time, like once they’ve finished breastfeeding or in the lighter hours.

“But what we are actually finding is that pregnant patients don’t actually like to do this and so often they will try to fast during Ramadan as normal.”

For Aanisa, having to make up the days later was one of the main reasons she chose to fast in her pregnancy.

“I find it really difficult to make up the time afterwards especially because no one else in the family is fasting. So I try to do as many as I can during the month,” she said.

Scholars say if pregnant women cannot fast after Ramadan for any reason, then they can give money to charity instead.

However, since fasting during the month is seen as an integral part of Muslim culture, many women may feel guilty if they do not observe Ramadan.

Health professionals warn that pregnant women should seek advice if they decide to fast.

“Where Ramadan now falls in August, that is a long time of daylight hours where people will be fasting, that will have a detrimental effect on pregnant women, said Ms Close.

“Pregnant women should discus this with their midwife because it can be very dangerous, not just for the women but also for the unborn child.”

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13 Replies to “Muslim fasting causes retarded babies.”

  1. Islam is prone to giving birth to babies” who are more prone to learning disabilities in adulthood”. Islam is repeatedly found to be a contributing mental impairment with case after case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Eliminate Islam, and the issues of low birth weight due to Ramadan fasting, low IQ’s due to Muhammad’s religious constrictions on brain activity will be eliminated as well.

  2. Who cares? Whether or not they fast during Ramadan, their spawn will always be robotic, if not retarded.

    What I object to is that they try to impose it on others who have nothing whatsoever to do with their backward ideology.

  3. Heidi,

    I wonder what the cost of one retarded child that could have been avoided by proper breeding methods is to a country with socialized medicine like Oz?

    Do you think a few tens of thousands of them could bankrupt the system of your tax dollars so when you need real emergency medicine its simply not possible?

  4. Eeyore, fortunately Australia’s public health system isn’t as far gone as UK’s NHS. Everyone but the poor, and arselifters, knows that private health insurance gets them better medical attention.

  5. “But I wasn’t worried about my health or my baby’s. I think Allah gives you strength and he protects your unborn child.”

    That freaking goes without saying… WTF?

  6. Oh, do you guys want to know where else in Dar al-Mahoundistan this “allah will protect me” crap can be seen? In mahoundians driving at 120 km/h where the speed limit is 50 km/h, and those of them that happen to be walking crossing 4-lane roads, with the traffic going one way, without looking around that much… When mahoundian pedestrians do that, they wait between lanes, in the middle of the road, to move forward, while dozens of lunatics are zipping by, in front of them and behind them, at maximum speed… As though a child-molesting bedouin fantasy could give anyone any help.

  7. Just tack on the consanguineous nature of marrying first cousins, or the inevitable relations with relations in a polygamous society, then you’ve got the perfect genetic recipe for unhealthy mutations and still borns.

  8. Muzzies are inbred morons to begin with, add to that the starving of babies and you have the perfect muslim. A brain dead zombie.

  9. When King David was walking on the roof of his palace in Jerusalem, he looked down and saw a woman called Bathsheba sunbathing below. She was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, one of his soldiers. David sent for Bathsheba, slept with her, and made her pregnant. Then he summoned her husband Uriah to the palace (he had been fighting with the army at Rabbah). He told him to go back to his own house and sleep with his wife – this way, when Bathsheba’s baby was born, people would believe it to be Uriah’s and not David’s. But for two nights, Uriah refused to sleep in his own house, saying that as his troops were camping in the open, he would not allow himself the luxury of sleeping with his wife at home, so he slept at the palace gate. Even when David made him drunk on a third night, he still refused to go back to his house, and slept in the guard room instead.