Mayar Mohamed Mousa, a 17-year-old girl, died the other day in a hospital in the province of Suez in Egypt while undergoing female genital mutilation surgery.
Don’t wait for Obama to repeat her name and to say that she could have been one of his daughters. If she had died while having a back-alley abortion because her evil white Christian father forbade her to have a safe one in a medical clinic, Obama would be up for it. But Mayar died at the cruel and sadistic hands of Islamic theology and so she doesn’t make the cut.
Mayar was in the process of being maimed and mutilated the way a vast number of Egyptian women are. They usually undergo the horror as young girls, but if they avoid the knife and broken glass, then they undergo the barbarity before they begin dating and get married.
A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report explains:
“Many Egyptians believe that for a girl or woman to be ‘clean,’ ‘pure’ and ‘feminine,’ she must have her genitals cut at a young age. . . .Many parents will have their daughters cut as a proactive measure so that they will be ‘marriageable’… In some communities, men refuse to marry any woman who has not been cut.”
Get ready, of course, to hear from media darling Reza Aslan and many other leftists that what happened to Mayar, and what is happening to millions of Muslim girls like her, is not because of Islam. You will be told that it is only some kind of “extreme” Muslim fringe that is supposedly practicing this crime, and, yes, you guessed it, non-Muslims do it too!
But here is a question:
If Islamic genital mutilation is not Islamic, where are all the Muslim imams, muftis and clerics in the world, and in Egypt in particular, who will be vociferously denouncing and repudiating what happened to Mayer just recently and that continues to happen to millions like her? Why aren’t they shouting from the rooftops about the un-Islamic nature of this crime and coming to the defense of Muslim girls and women? Why haven’t they shut down FGM under Islam since it is so un-Islamic?
Where, also, are the tens of thousands of Muslims gathering in mass demonstrations around the world shouting in moral indignation and fury about their young little Muslim girls having their clitorises cut out with broken glass and being maimed for life? Oh wait, I forgot — they only get worked up about cartoons. My bad.
The answer, of course, to Islamic silence on this issue is rooted in the fact that female genital mutilation is rooted in Islam and it is integral to its misogynist structures. Moreover, that non-Muslims might do it too does not somehow make Muslims doing it because of Islam all right. It is vital to stress, as well, that Muslims are the principle religious group that practices this sexual violence against women and that this violence is kept alive and legitimized by Islamic theology. Non-Muslims who practice FGM have no theology to fall back on and, as former ex-Imam Mark Christian has emphasized, many of those who engage in FGM only do so because they live in — or close by — Islamic environments and feel under pressure to do so.
Let’s state the facts:
Female genital mutilation is fundamentally Islamic. It is mandated in Islamic texts such as Umdat al-Salik:
“Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female). For men it consists of removing the prepuce from the penis, and for women, removing the prepuce (Ar. Bazr) of the clitoris.”
— Sacred Islamic Reliance: page 59, Umdat al-Salik (“Reliance of the Traveler”), a manual of the Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence, endorsed by Egypt’s very own Al-Azhar University of Cairo — the oldest and most prestigious university in the Islamic world.
Female genital mutilation is mandated in the Hadith. See, for example: Abu Dawud 41:5251, Sahih Muslim 3:0684, and Sahih Bukhari: 7:72:777.
This is why one of Sunni Islam’s “Four Great Imams,” Ahmad ibn Hanbal, quotes Muhammed as saying: “Circumcision is a law for men and a preservation of honor for women.”
This is why Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi of Egypt’s Al-Azhar University has called circumcision “a laudable practice that did honor to women.”
This is why in Muslim Egypt, like in Indonesia, the crime of FGM is perpetrated on a massive level. Even when the Egyptian government tried to ban FGM back in 1996, an Egyptian court overturned the ban in July 1997 because of the ferocious uprising it sparked among Islamic clerics, who fervently pointed to Islamic teachings to make sure this crime against women remained firmly in place.
It is clear, of course, why FGM is so important and crucial to Islam: crippling women’s sexuality solidifies the misogynist structures of Islamic gender apartheid. Keeping FGM legitimized and institutionalized helps keep women subjugated and caged. By amputating the clitoris, Islam’s mutilators succeed in maiming the woman’s sexual desire and pleasure, which, in the Islamic mindset, reduces the chances that she will ever fathom the horrifying notion of autonomy, equality and self-determination.
Meanwhile, while millions of young Muslim girls suffer the mutilating barbarity of female genital mutilation in the Islamic world every year, our media and higher literary culture remain completely silent about it — and slander the truth tellers.
It is clear, of course, why the Left wants to do and say nothing about Islamic FGM, and why it makes sure to smear and punish anyone who dares to say anything about it. The Left cannot reach its hand out in compassion and solidarity to the suffering people under Islam, or under any other adversarial tyranny. Doing so would be an admission of the evil of an adversary culture and ideology, which, in turn, casts a spotlight on the superiority and goodness of Western civilization, and therefore serves as a reminder of the importance of protecting and saving it. For the Left, such a concept is nightmarish and anathema, because its entire purpose is to revile and destroy its host society. For leftists to admit the dark realities of Islamic jihad and Islamic gender apartheid is to jeopardize their entire cause, identities, social statuses, cultural and material rewards, and their narcissistic cravings for approval and admiration in their “progressive” milieus.
Thus, by necessity, in the Left’s vicious and callous mindset, the victims who suffer under barbaric adversarial regimes must be pushed into spheres of invisibility.
And so, the tragic suffering and death of 17-year-old Mayar Mohamed Mousa is not of interest to the Left or to its feminists. This is simply just the next normal and morbid chapter in the long, dark story of the Western Left, which has its hands drenched in human blood – busy as it always is in sacrificing human beings on the altar of its heartless utopian ideals.
Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine’s editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Russian, U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror. He is the host of the web-tv show, The Glazov Gang, and he can be reached at jamieglazov11@gmail.com. Visit his site at JamieGlazov.com.
ich says
Must be getting hard for lefties to keep blaming themselves.
You would think by now they would look at the other side of the coin
STEVE says
No they won’t look or say a word against……..They are the most guilty.the ones who look away and say nothing. Of course those who follow these barbaric laws of Islam.or maybe thise who force to obey…but those who do nothing or say nothing are worse.
vivienne Leijonhufvu (@goldaleijonhufv) says
I would be interested to know if the new Muslim London Mayor of London has subjected his two girls to FMG?
Susan B says
FMG was condoned by mohammad and this is the result in islamic countries. Percentage of females mutilated by country. 98% Somalia, 96% Guinea, 93% Djibouti, 91% Egypt, 89% Eritrea, 89% Mali, 88% Sierra Leone, 88% Sudan. There are so many more islamic countries that practice this. Why, because mohammad thought females were nothing more than sex objects and possesses. Islam the cult of pieces, literally. Slicing and dicing muslim style.
Jay Boo says
Followers of Islam are control-freaky.
Should we have any respect for people who allow such things and who honor kill their own children without remorse? Once Muslims start reciting their satanic incantations they have no shame.
Truth Seeker says
Which Mohamed? In which year?
DM says
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Is Advocating for U.S. Pediatricians to Perform Certain Types of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Says Equality Now
Just so we can become more respectful of other cultures.
DM says
To continue—–
That headline was from 2000 but in 1996 the Congress of the United States enacted legislation to criminalize the performance of FGM by practitioners on female infants and children or adolescents younger than 18 years and to develop educational programs at the community level and for physicians about the harmful consequences of the practice.
It amazes me that 4 years after it was made illegal AAP was still trying to appease muslims by as the article suggests just making a little nick.
Jay Boo says
Muslims insist that we RESPECT Muslims and Islam.
Obama, Pope Francis, Hillary on this, all concede.
Islamorefugee says
M’mad was viciously clever not to allow any one to get to any of his weaknesses. He suggested FGM to keep it as a religious act in islam so that women can never get any knowledge of men’s ability to please a woman in sexual act. Thus there will be no anxiety on the part of the male whether he is able or not. He has no obligation to sexually please the woman. She has to bear child ,and that is all.
Clever M’mad !!!!
Jay Boo says
I must repeat that wonderful line in the article:
Don’t wait for Obama to repeat her name and to say that she could have been one of his daughters.
Jay Boo says
Behind each rose there hides a thorn.
The hijab is a rite of passage for every little Muslim girl.
The hijab hides Muhammad’s disgraceful life and the cutting knife.
Troybeam says
This act is in the Koran, it is clear that the women or girls under go this procedure so they have no sexual identity. It is also means to inflict pain not only in the procedure but after as the woman is sewn up so that only fluids can leave the body, no doctor can readdress the vaginal opening as this brings the woman virginity in question. She will have years of pain due to tearing of this area and childbirth if she survives this.
boakai ngombu says
this practice, as condoned, assures that there is no pleasure in islam … let alone in marriage
marriage counselors, take note. your perspective won’t be necessary. dissatisfaction and anger amongst the married is decreed by the allah god of isalm (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) any problems are to be settled by judges in SHARIA courts.
love and affection for children shall be reduced. there is no happiness in islam.
Ted Tyler says
OK, I guess I’m on a Tee Shirt kick, but this is cool:
“FGM is Islamic”.
That is a conversation starter. It might prompt someone to ask: “What is FGM?” – and then you could describe the process in detail.
Angemon says
I see what you did there >_>
Guest says
This is just wrong
jacques sabena says
I recently watched a programme about FGM which, as in most aspects in Islam, is all about men and sexuality. A so-called Muslim “scholar” said that if a man had four wives, he could not be expected to satisfy them all sexually, so by cutting a woman’s sexual organs and thus reducing her sexual drive, his life would be “made easier”. Breathtaking savagery which has no place in the civilised world of the 21st century.
Jackson03 says
“Breathtaking savagery which has no place in the civilised world of the 21st century.”
Or any other century for that matter!
jacques sabena says
jackson, you are so right! What I can’t get my head round is that in the 21st-century there are more than a billion people dumb enough to believe in a brutal and backward religion from the deserts of seventh century Saudi Arabia. Apart from it being the most dangerous threat to civilisation, it is stuffed full of absolute laughable nonsense – like the male fantasy of the 90 virgins in paradise waiting for martyrs. Or how about having to start prayer again if a woman, black dog or a donkey pass by?? You couldn’t make it up!
Hope says
This is another example of Hillary Clinton’s lies and hypocrisy. She presents herself as a champion of women’s rights, but turns a blind eye to FGM and the myriad other ways islam abuses and tortures women.
citycat says
Who ever put sexual mutilation into the Qur’an is sick in the head.
Who ever agrees with it is sick in the head.
Male and female sexual mutilation is evil tyranny upon a child.
God’s made a mistake for sickos to correct?
It’s sick in the head, leading to sick in the soul, leading to sick in the society.
Sick. Lowlife. Lower than animal, rather like Allah the sexless vampire, and any other Gods that advocate it.
jacques sabena says
This is where policies of multiculturalism are so dangerous. The idea that all cultures are equal and none have the right to criticise another’s beliefs and behaviours is absurd. How can a civilised culture possibly accept that another needlessly butchers its children? In Rotherham, Britain, when more than 1000 young girls were abused by Muslim men, city councillors, police and other organisations turned a blind eye and did not protect them for fear of offending the Muslim community. Even the local member of Parliament said he knew about it, but decided he didn’t want to “rock the multicultural boat”.
David says
What an absolute horror! What “civilised” person would subject their own child to such cruel mutilation?
This is just another reason to deport all these cockroaches before they can crawl back into the woodwork.
I’ve never seen a more vile and purely EVIL group of people ever before. Surely this must be the work of Satan in these “the end times”.
But, why must WE TOLERATE THIS?
billybob says
That was an excellent piece by JAMIE GLAZOV. I didn’t know he did articles, nor did I know he holds a PhD. He is so down to earth as a (very capable) show host you would never know that he is also an academic.
Lord Wrath says
Look at the bright side… One less breeder…
Screeminmeeme says
This poor child. According to Islamic scholars, FGM makes girls/women ‘pure’, ‘feminine’ and it ‘preserves their honor’.
So…apparently Allah made such a mistake in his creation of women…..giving them a clitoris/labia and all……..that Muslim men have to insist that those parts be removed and the introitus be restructured to suit their depraved notions.
FGM = the diabolical creation of Lucifer…..as is Islam.
Lord Wrath says
It would seem to be that all the gods made the same design error… Male genital mutilation is even more widely practiced…
Screeminmeeme says
That’s an evil thing to say about a child forced to go thru such agony. There IS no ‘bright’ side to FGM….unless you’re a degenerate barbarian Muslim obsessed with sexual perversion of every sort.
linnte says
In Paganism, the hood of the Priestess and her followers represents the female genetalia. What an irony that the Burqua is similar to the hooded Pagan woman yet the Burqua represents de-feminisation of a woman. Picture the Catholic representation of Mary in her veil with her robes extended. Mother of God on earth. It takes away Gods blessing in the form of intimacy and mutual sexual gratification from women. Muslim men are only half of the marriage, who can enjoy their sexual experience, and it exemplifies Islam. They are selfish and self centered and the antithesis of God’s love. And their women, neutered, have no clue what God given passion for ones mate can do to bring each couple closer to God. They must be frustrated beyond belief and secretly resent the enjoyment their male counterpart has. God created us in HIS IMAGE, yet Islam, like Satan, destroys the very fabric of the Union created by God. This is a form of rebellion against God.
Lioness says
Leftist feminists support FGM wholeheartedly in order to not offend islam; not a word of condemnation from them on this barbaric atrocity. But not supplying free contraceptives to women on taxpayers account, is called “a war on women”.
OutragedandAngry says
How about this … No men travelling alone or in packs will be granted refugee status … and no men travelling with their families will be granted refugee status if their mothers, wives or daughters have been cut. Since FGM is ‘not Islamic’, it can’t be considered a religious test.