Infanticide video said inciting hate

This pisses me off - I wish that these missionaries just kept themselves away from Brasil in general, period. I have no clue why they think that they have the right to go there in the first place, with the idea that they are better than the indians. When most of the indigenas tribes have been extinct around the world, LEAVE the surviving ones alone! They have the right to their beliefs and culture, and it's nobody else's business, but their own. They live away from the cities, and bother nobody. They certainly don't bother us Brasilians; on the contrary - we know to protect them.
IMO these guys should be deported and never be allowed in the country again.

Also, what do they think Brasil and its government are? Did they think for a minute, that if indeed that was a big problem, our authorities wouldn't intervene? H-E-L-L-O!

Wow, the video is pretty disturbing (which is the intention, I know). I think it's terrible to bury children, even if it IS fake. My question is, why did the tribe agree to do the video to begin with?

I would be interested though, in how this person explains this last remark:

That fact that Youth with a Mission did this video is not at all surprising to me.

Sometimes, some practices are good to hate - things that cause the needless suffering of others, which includes slavery; sex with children & animals; torture...
It would be hard to film the practices actually happening; kinda like expecting being able to film crimes in order to substantiate them, rather than allowing witness testimony & forensic evidence.
The Brazil government was debating the controversial "Muwaji's law" which was the brain-child of Brazilian Congressman Henrique Alfonso, who stirred controversy by trying to legislate parents' rights to home-school their children. I don't know if it passed or not.
Some doctors and anthropologists are adamant that no one should interfere with the tribes' cultures. But other Indians object to certain of the practices.
Mothers who are forced to kill their babies or abandon them to die in the forest often commit suicide. The children are killed because they are disabled, or female, or from an unwed mother. they are buried alive because if they die while their face is above ground, their ghost will come back to haunt the tribe. If they are deformed, they have a "monkey soul" and not a "human soul" and also must be killed, altho poisoning & abandonment is acceptable. In some ways, I see this as a "women's and children's rights issue"
Atini is a group dedicated to helping indigneous peoples. They claim that the Indians are more threatened by the ranchers, miners & loggers than the missionaries, but the missionaries are being targeted in order to take the attention off the former groups.
Here are some articles, if you want additional information on this topic:

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=6788207&page=1

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...by-burial.html

Every single word from what you are saying come from Edson Suzuki & Marcia Suzuki, who are member of the Christian Missionary Group Atini - and are, by the way, the makers of the documentary in this thread. SO, a little biased, perhaps?

My thoughts exactly.

Let's save them for eternity, even if it means they will be killed while on Earth... Nice thought!
These tribes are in the middle of the Amazon. The Amazon is no little forest - it is almost as large as 1/2 of the US. They are nowhere near modern civilization, and that's the reason why they survived for thousands of years. Their land, their culture, their beliefs, their lives - absolutely they should be left alone! And protecting them IS to leave them alone; just look at what happened with all the other tribes in the world that were NOT left alone - were they saved? On the contrary - they were decimated.

I know nothing about the tribe in question, and I know nothing about the missionary group that did the filming. But I still want to know how you take infanticide out of context.

I didn't take that statement as weird....so if we are to allow this infanticide, shouldn't we also stop our efforts to stop "female circumcision" since it is the beliefs and the traditions of the Muslim world

What about abortions, then?

There are differences in the policies and procedures between the two cases. In SA, the "Anglos" are trying to help the tribes preserve much of their culture, including their languages & customs. The direct opposite of what happened in the US.
My grand-aunt was "stolen" for a time from my great-grandparents and forced to go to Sherman School. My grandmother's actual birthdate was earlier than shown on her birth certificate because she was born on other tribal lands, to confuse the authorities, so she wouldn't be forced to go to school. My grand-aunt says they had to keep pregnancies and births hidden because the "Americans" would come back in a few years and take the baby away to school. My grandfather was born over the border in Mexico, so being a "mexican" instead of "yaqui", he was allowed to remain with family.
I appreciate what you say about the American Indians, my great-grandparents were relocated from Julian, CA to Arizona because they thought they were making a land use agreement with the Mormons, but instead had somehow signed over land ownership
And I think that the miners and ranchers are more of a threat to the SA Indians....their forests are in the "sights" for development