And why not? Muslim communities in Europe have not been called to assimilate, either by their leaders or by European authorities. Among the schools of Muslim jurisprudence, Shafi'is consider circumcision obligatory for women; Hanbalis say it is an honorable custom, but not obligatory; Hanafis say it should be done as a courtesy to the husband. From The Scotsman, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
Young girls born in Europe to immigrant families from Africa are being subjected to ritual genital mutilation, and authorities are doing little to discourage it, a leading women’s rights activist warned.Somalia-born supermodel and best-selling author Waris Dirie, who has campaigned to end the disfiguring practice she suffered at age five in her homeland, said yesterday that she estimates one in every three African families living in Europe is secretly carrying out the ritual on their daughters. No official figures exist.
The procedure – illegal in most European countries – is especially prevalent in Germany and the Netherlands, as well as in Austria, where an estimated 8,000 girls born into immigrant families have been affected, Dirie said.
“We don’t know who’s doing it and where,” because there are few initiatives to prevent it or to encourage doctors, nurses, social workers, teachers and others to report suspected cases, Dirie said. An exception is France, where there is strong awareness and education, she said.
“What good is a law if no one is paying attention?” Dirie told reporters in Austria, where she was being honoured yesterday by a Roman Catholic men’s movement for her efforts to stop the practice.
Islamic religious leaders are telling Europe’s Muslim Africans that the prophets recommend the ancient ritual, which involves the removal of the clitoris, often with a dull blade and no anaesthesia, Dirie said.
“That is a catastrophe,” she said. “Every imam who is not actively against genital mutilation is guilty. Mutilation is not a tradition – it’s a crime that must be abolished.”
This is all about hating women. Until they change their attitude that women are inferior, less intelligent, naturally promiscuous, possessions of their male relatives, that their virginity is the most important thing to a family's honour, etc., FGM will continue. It's about man maintaining ultimate control and power over a woman. This is a vile, disgusting and evil thing to do to another human being. So typical of Islam to shelter & encourage this backward tribal custom. I hate it when people make the excuse that it isn't Islamic, that other non-Muslim cultures practise it. It IS Islamic when Muslims go about saying FGM makes a woman a good Muslimah, and when their imams encourage the practise. The Pope isn't encouraging it. Nor any cardinal or rabbi.
There's an article which describes the practice in detail at nojihad.com.
Sexual Mutilations and Islam
This SHOULD shock and horrify any sane, civilzed person.
Well it shocked and horrified me, CGW, even though I've read much about FGM in the past. It just doesn't get any less horrifying or shocking. I just could not imagine doing this to my daughter, let alone imagining having it done to myself. The barbaric mutilation is bad enough, but the complications afterward cause me to wince just thinking about them. I've read of women taking up to 30 minutes just to urinate. I've read of women dying in childbirth and of young girls getting gangrene and infections after the mutilation and dying in agony over days. The fact that a man cuts open his wife to have sex with her repeatedly is an abhorrent thought. You have to be a monster to knowingly cause another person such pain and distress. You can't have a soul or a conscience. And the amazing thing is, nobody in Islam is thinking "oh this has got to stop", or "we shouldn't be causing women to experience such pain and danger to their health". No, it's just carry on with it, don't stop and think, don't question, don't feel. Just keep doing it, like mindless drones. Never mind the agony, the deaths, the health risks. It's evil. Pure unadulterated evil. This is Islam.
A barbaric cultural vestige left over from Ancient Egypt that is NOT a religious requirement. Why do they do it? To make themselves pleasing as women are less and will always be so!
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This was the first I heard of fgm and I thought these people were barbaric already but that is just sick totally sick.The thought of this going on is like perposterous that this takes place anywhere.
For several years it was known that this practise was being done in Canada and the Liberal Government turned a blind eye to it as to not offend Muslims.
Vancouver was the hot-spot for it and also the Government overlooked the Asian resturaunts that listed "Seal" on the menu because it was a cultural dish,this while the coastguard had orders to stop the westcoast seal harvests.
CAIR is demanding Sharia-Law for Muslims within Canada and the next step will be blasphemy-laws similar to Pakistan where any anti-Islamic or Quranic comments will be a criminal offence.
CAIR can't have it both ways,exalting Sharia as the perfect "Justice-system" for equality and human rights while at the same time absolving Sharia of any responsibility for the endless violence and death from Sharia-law rulings in Islamic Countries makes this a dangerous pact for the Government.
Whoes version of Sharia will be enforced,and how will females make free-will decision when the Quran tells them to submit to their husbands and accept the punishment for disobeying Sharia.
CAIR must be stopped and the cancer called "Islam" should be banned from democracies,muslims can live here but the tenets of the Quran and Islam can not be forced on others by proxy.
For the ones whose stomach permits them to read the gruesome details of it, this is the account given by an eyewitness Some parts of it, however are quite digestive and informative):
"The temperature generally drops several degrees when female circumcision is mentioned by any European when Mohammedans are present. What is interesting from a historical point of view is the fact that both male and female circumcision had been practiced in Ethiopia and Egypt, since remote antiquity. Sanchuniathon, Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, etc. have confirmed this. There can be absolutely no doubt that the practice of male circumcision was borrowed by the Hebrews from the Egyptians. To quote Davenport: "Abraham, who had hitherto called himself Abram, added a syllable to his name at the same time that he curtailed a portion of his skin, thus effecting a compromise, or quid pro quo."
According to the Bible, the 'covenant' fell into desuetude but was revived by Moses - but not for the reasons given in the Exodus! According to the old scholiast: "Moses, the king and legislator of the Jews, having from want of cleanliness a diseased prepuce, was compelled to cut it off, and fearing that this privation, if known to his subjects, might expose him to ridicule, ordered them all to undergo a like operation."
For males, circumcision is a messy but comparatively trivial operation, whereas for females, clitoridectomy is not only painful beyond belief, but is the equivalent of total castration. All of the women whom I know personally, who have undergone pharaonic circumcision and have been infibulated, say they have never recovered from it - physically or mentally - and of course, they are absolutely incapable of experiencing any sexual pleasure. On the contrary, sex is very painful for them.
No doubt, Eastern men have always nourished, and still nourish, a deep visceral fear and distrust of all infant females - some of the bright ones might grow into brainy women who would go after them with meat cleavers, join "Women's Lib", demand equal rights, etc. So, aeons ago, the ancestors of Semitic 'machos' reached the conclusion that the only way to beat the deadly females of their species was to circumcise them first, then lock them up in harems or zenanas.
Pharaonic circumcision and infibulation is regarded as the only one hundred percent effective way to safeguard a girl's virginity. Indeed, it is so effective that, for intercourse to take place after marriage, the husband or matron has to defibulate the bride with a knife to pry her open.
The ghastly screams and shrieks which have terrified so many foreign tourists at night in the vicinity of "Honeymoon" hotels in Port Sudan are emitted by brides being defibulated. A Sudanese journalist commented, "For us they seem perfectly normal, we all know that the first nights of marriage are agony."
But just what is pharaonic circumcision? I have seen it being done when I was staying as a guest in the home of wealthy Arab friends. A great feast had been prepared to which all female relatives and friends had been invited, and since I was regarded as a guest of honor, I not only had to attend, but was given a ringside seat. The miserable little victim - a beautiful child, incidentally - was grabbed by four women, who threw her upon a sort of pallet on the ground and pinioned her arms and legs. Then the gedda, or specialist, or matron, or whatever you want to call her, kneeled between the little girl's thighs and began the operation by slicing off the clitoris. All of the women present began making the most prodigious din (by ullulations), which they kept up during the whole operation in a futile effort to drown the howls and shrieks of agony of the patient. As soon as the clitoris had been excised, the matron scooped (roughly speaking) it out, then began to pull and tug to extract its roots. Blood gushed left, right and center. This was only an hors d'oeuvre - the next step consisted in shearing off the edges of the inner lips, then carving off the rim of the outer lips, from which the gedda removed a gory ribbon of flesh about 2 centimeters in width. Where the clitoris had once been was a gaping hole from which blood poured. I will spare you a few other details which I would rather not enlarge upon. Finally, the matron stitched up the raw and bleeding flesh, after which she carefully inserted a tiny hollow tube into the lower portion of the vagina, to allow for the passage of urine and menstrual blood. This, so I was subsequently informed, was to remain in place until the scar had formed. The 'operation' had lasted all of twenty minutes. Finally, the patient was bound up with cords from the hips to the knees to prevent her from making any movements which might cause the stitches to burst. For fifteen days, all girls who have been infibulated have to remain motionless, supine, and trussed up like fowls.
As a direct result of this ritual butchery, most Mohammedan women are permanently cowed which is hardly surprising since they have been castrated. A few exceptions react as Cleopatra did. According to many historians, the 'Serpent of the Nile' had been subjected , as most Egyptian females, to pharaonic circumcision, and her whole life was a sort of mopping up action, totally unencumbered by any treacherous below-the-belt emotions.
According to Dr, El Sayed Mirghani El Sayed, the very first African doctor to write a thesis on female circumcision, in Africa alone "fifty million or more female children are circumcised every year". In Somalia, all girls between the ages of seven and ten are forced to submit to this barbarous operation, for religious and social reasons. Most Egyptian girls, including those who attend universities, have been infibulated.
Unfortunately, no one knows how many of the little victims who have been circumcised, die - either immediately due to shock, or a little later due to the infections resulting from this prehistoric butchery. Sometimes, the patients bleed to death; hemorrages which often last for forty-eight hours are frequent occurrences, but generally they succumb to tetanus or gangrene. Whenever a death resulting from circumcision occurs, as Dr. J.G. Taoko reported, it is bruited about that the 'evil eye' was to blame, or else it is rumored that the victim herself was to blame because she had had sexual relations before the ceremony and was 'punished' for her 'crime'.
It is hardly necessary to describe what happens to all women who have been infibulated when they are on the point of giving birth. The vagina, a mass of scar tissue, is far too narrow to permit the baby to emerge. So what happens? They simply slash her open. Then, of course, later she has to be infibulated all over again. Any husband can force his wife to undergo infibulation ad nauseum. One of my unfortunate friends has been infibulated five times.
Muhammad cannot be blamed for introducing either male or female circumcision, which had been practised thousands of years before his birth, but it is relevant to note that he never made the slightest effort to ban, suppress, or even discourage female circumcision. On the contrary!
According to the Omatiya version of the hadiths (sacred words of the Prophet), when Mahomet saw a woman in the Medina busily carving up the genitalia of a small girl, he said: "Do not cut too deeply." According to the second version (Razeen) he allegedly said "Do not cut too deeply. It clears the complexion of the woman and is more agreeable for her husband."
Although the Koran considers excision as an 'embellishment' for women but not a formal command, most Mohammedans everywhere labor under the delusion that female circumcision is a prescription of Islam. Modern Islamic leaders all appear to be bending over backwards to encourage the practice.
The grand Mufti of Mecca - who might be compared to the pope for all of Islam - publicly proclaimed: "The ablation of the gland clitoris is agreeable to Allah." This astonishing 'pronunciamento' was made smack in the middle of this century.
Abraham, according to the Bible, was either on the verge of or over the edge of madness, since he obviously suffered from auditory and visual hallucinations. When in their throes, he fancied or imagined that he saw and heard a god who introduced himself as "el elyon". And, though Time failed to mention in their October 17, 1983 cover story "Luther 500 years young," Luther (who like Calvin suffered acutely from chronic constipation) received his greatest moment of spiritual enlightenment when he was struggling upon the privy - the famous, immortal Turmerlebnis. All atheists who know Latin have laughed themselves into insensibility reading Melanchthon's description of one of Luther's affrays with the devil...
To return to Muhammadanism, which, let us face it, is spreading enormously (even in the United States with the Black Muslims),it might indeed be a good idea, as my three Islamic "closet Atheists" have vociferously and repeatedly suggested, to acquaint Americans with few hard facts regarding Muhammadanism, as well as the fact that every year over fifty million little children are castrated "like animals" in forty countries of Africa, the Middle and Near East 'in the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate'."
We owe the above narration to A. Gosh, someone I do not know persoanlly but who indeed deserves due recognition for his magisterial account on the gruesmome subject.
I realize the last but one paragraph has nothing to do with the main subject of the 'lesson'. Since it exposes the miseries of people some of you consider great and I do not want to offend anybody, let me give assurances it was in the original text and wasn't discarded by me just because I made the cut shortly below, at the point the author openly entered another chapter of his long disertation.
This is one of the issues Miss Hirsi Ali adressed. She made history, managing to unite Muslims and Jews in opposition to her proposed ban on genital mutilation of minors.
Unfortunately the ban didn't make it. Freedom of Religion was deemed more important than banning mutilation of children. Another consideration was that banning would move the practice underground, out of view of medical professionals, thus increasing the risk of the operation.