We are constantly told in the West that FGM is cultural and has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. The article below from the repulsive Daily Mail follows standard establishment media practice in studiously avoiding any mention of Islam or Muslims, but the reality that no one dares to face is that female genital mutilation (FGM) is justified in Islamic law. It is practiced by some non-Muslims, but only in majority-Muslim areas where the influence of Islamic culture, mores and law is all-pervasive.
“It is a religious thing. Do you want to change religion?” said one Egyptian in response to a campaign to eradicate female genital mutilation. “You only listen to what the West is saying.”
The establishment media ignores the fact that FGM is mandated in Islamic law: “Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) (by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr ‘clitoris’ [this is called khufaadh ‘female circumcision’]).” — Umdat al-Salik e4.3, translated by Mark Durie, The Third Choice, p. 64
Why is it obligatory? Because Muhammad is held to have said so: “Abu al- Malih ibn Usama’s father relates that the Prophet said: ‘Circumcision is a law for men and a preservation of honour for women.’” — Ahmad Ibn Hanbal 5:75
“Narrated Umm Atiyyah al-Ansariyyah: A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said to her: ‘Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband.’” — Abu Dawud 41:5251
That hadith is classified as weak, but this one is classified as sahih (reliable): “Aishah narrated: ‘When the circumcised meets the circumcised, then indeed Ghusl is required. Myself and Allah’s Messenger did that, so we performed Ghusl.’” — Jami` at-Tirmidhi 108
If Muhammad had the genitals of his favorite wife, Aisha, mutilated, that is a strong endorsement of the practice from the man who is an “excellent example” (Qur’an 33:21) for Muslims.
Why does it matter whether or not FGM is Islamic? Because the practice will never be eradicated if its root causes are not confronted. As long as those Muslims continue to believe that Allah and Muhammad want it done, for some that will override all other considerations, in the United States and everywhere else.
“Gambian imam leads campaign for Bill unbanning FGM,” APA News, March 4, 2024:
APA-Banjul (The Gambia) Abdoulie Fatty, a well known campaigner to unban female genital mutilation has taken this evangelism to The Gambian national assembly in support of a Bill which seeks to reverse the ban.
Imam Fatty on Monday led a bunch of other clerics and some veiled schoolgirls to the bowel of the national assembly in Banjul as the Bill championed by an MP was brought to the floor of the House and subjected to a debate.
Just a few feet away sat a gaggle of fiery anti-FGM amazons from among Gambia’s gender activists who have been up in arms against the Bill ever since it was crafted by Almamy Gibba, the MP for Foni Kansala….
The practice of female circumcision was criminalised in The Gambia in 2015 during which then President Jammeh described it as a watershed moment ushering his country unrelentingly into the 21st century when such tendencies which scar women and girls for life have no place in her future.
However, nine years after the ban, both local and international activists have been warning that anti-FGM legislation was under threat from an unyielding campaign by mostly religious scholars and custodians of tradition to ”bring it back from the dead”.
Religious clerics have taken their campaign a step further, paying the fines of FGM practitioners prosecuted and found guilty of breaking the anti-FGM law and using scripture to justify the practice as virtuous in Islam….
Although the practice is under a ban in The Gambia, practitioners have gone undercover to indulge the tendency and evade prosecution.
John Forbes says
What a total disgrace!!
bagsgroove says
How can that imam be an imam if he is a black “raisinhead” what mohamed called them . Mohamed and the muslims detested blacks and sold them as slaves.
Mike says
Most of the male Black slaves were also brutally castrated by the Arab slave masters, and most of them did not survive the procedure.
Keith O says
Don’t say things like that Mike, the reality check would cause them to be offended.
The poor little poppets would have a sulk at the truth being used.
Ray Jarman says
True and now that it can be performed safely, maybe all male cult members of the mass murdering pedophilic monsters will adopt it for themselves. Just hoping against all hope or maybe just dreaming.
OLD GUY says
Once islam takes over the world they will sort that out, now he is a convenient tool.
Peter Buckingham says
Hear! Hear!
somehistory says
Let those who do this demonic thing, practice on his face. And his elsewhere.
Bernie says
Just out of curiosity, when it comes to reform-minded Muslims who want this hideous, barbaric crime abolished, what arguments do they make for abolishing it, while retaining their Islamic religious affiliation?
somehistory says
You’d have to ask someone like Zuhdi Jasser. He may be against it, since he is a doctor.
https://aifdemocracy.org/our-work/our-team/
Peter Buckingham says
I want to be at the head of the queue !
40 rounds says
I’m sure “fatty” would take umbrage to that.
FYI says
koran 3:106-107
The iman will need to keep his fingers crossed on allah’s judgement day {see koran 3:107}
Speaking of Abu Dawud:interestingly it also says in Abu Dawud 40:4731 that the prophet muhammed was a fat dwarf.No offense to anyone who happens ro be a fat dwarf but it is not my idea of the”Perfect Man”.Maybe in islam it is.
tgusa says
I wonder how he would feel if non-muslims came out in support of castration as punishment for female genital mutilation. He might think twice if we did that but who knows. Perhaps he has the balls to challenge us, at least right now.
Burnaby Lad says
“balls”
what does his bag sweat stained chin know about that
Keith O says
That would be difficult to achieve, there aren’t that many micro surgeons in the world.
tim gallagher says
What a primitive, knuckle dragging piece of garbage this scumbag is. It is like watching evolution going backwards with scum like this creature. Yes, let’s make FGM legal again, let’s go back to walking around dragging our knuckles on the ground as well. People like this creature are a disgrace to the human race. Yes, he should be castrated to give him a clear idea of the pain he wants to inflict on women, the misogynistic piece of shit that he is. That would be a just outcome for him.
Peter Buckingham says
Couldn’t agree more!
tim gallagher says
Thanks, Peter. Yes, how primitive, or maybe brain dead or deranged, would a human being, in 2024, (or at any time during human history for that matter) have to be to think that FGM is acceptable. You would have to be a knuckle dragger for sure.
somehistory says
Meanwhile in nigeria, cbs reports. There is a lot written in the account…posting here only a little bit.
“Dozens of girls reportedly abducted by Islamic militants in Nigeria”
“Johannesburg — There were reports emerging Wednesday that Islamic militants had abducted dozens of people near a camp for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria. Local media outlets said most of the people taken had been staying at the Babban Sansani IDP camp near the town of Ngala, but residents of other IDP camps in the area were also reportedly seized.
…Local media outlets reported widely varying figures, saying anywhere from about 50 to 300 people had been taken hostage, but there was no immediate confirmation from Nigerian officials.
The Nigerian Daily Trust newspaper quoted an unnamed source inside the Babba Sansani camp as saying the fighters were from the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, which has waged a campaign of terror across northern Nigeria for more than a decade. The group was behind the 2014 abduction of more than 200 girls from the town of Chibok.”
Read the rest. None of it is good.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dozens-of-girls-reportedly-abducted-by-islamic-militants-in-nigeria/ar-BB1jqDXe?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6608416c256c4e94828d251954e08b95&ei=148
Keith O says
The only sort of male who wants FGM is a little dicked control freak who can’t handle the idea of women actually experiencing pleasure through sex.
They are not men and they are missing out big time.
Mike says
And also (and I don’t mean to sound lewd here) but a lot of men enjoy giving oral pleasure to women, in the form of cunnilingus. How can one do that if cultureless, low-IQ, barbaric savages have done this to a girl? Male circumcision can be justified for several reasons, FGM cannot be justified at all.
Noah Andeark says
I’d like to know if Ilhan Omar is a proper pious muslima, or is she sporting a clitoris like some sort of western ho.
In reality, the reason muslim men insist on it is that no muslim man has ever brought a woman to orgasm. Therefore the reasoning is that women should not enjoy sex. When muslim women cheat (and they do), they typically will seek out Jewish men who are well known for their patience, kindness, and inventiveness. muslim men just can’t compete, so they need to ruin their women.
It’s islam and in the koran. Just ask the terrorists at the terror org CAIR.
40 rounds says
That’s hilarious – I’m actually blushing
Tony Rice says
Male circumcision was justified in certain times in certain countries, ie hot ones with little or no bathing facilities in order to lessen what collects inside a foreskin, for hygienic reasons, but the same cannot be said for F G M, and why is it that only men propose F G M and not women. After all, THEY are the ones best able to comment upon.