This shouldn’t surprise anyone, because FGM is Islamic.
“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
“Do not cut severely,” but not “Do not cut.”
That’s why it is so common around the world, and why it is certain to become increasingly common in the United States, particularly with help from the ACLU, which doubtless wants to avoid appearing to be “Islamophobic.”
“The defense has argued that the Attars did not engage in any criminal act and that the procedure at issue is a protected religious rite-of-passage that involves no cutting, but rather a scraping of genital membrane.”
The defense is trying to make this into a religious freedom issue, saying that this “scraping of genital membrane,” which is hardly what FGM really is, is Islamic practice and thus must be allowed. If they continue with this line of defense, this could become a test case for whether the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom allows Muslims to break other American laws. If this defense succeeds, the floodgates of jihad will open, and nothing will be able to be done about it.
“Feds drop bombshell: Up to 100 girls may have had their genitals cut in Michigan,” by Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, June 7, 2017:
A federal prosecutor dropped a bombshell in court Wednesday, telling a federal judge that the government estimates that as many as 100 girls may have had their genitals cut at the hands of a local doctor and her cohorts.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward disclosed the information while trying to convince a judge to keep a doctor and his wife locked up in the historic case. It involves allegations that two Minnesota girls had their genitals cut at a Livonia clinic in February as part of a religious rite of passage and were told to keep what happened a secret.
“Due to the secretive nature of this procedure, we are unlikely to ever know how many children were cut by Dr. (Jumana) Nagarwala,” Woodward said, referring to the lead defendant in the case, later adding, “The Minnesota victims were not the first victims.”
Against Woodward’s wishes, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman granted bond to two other defendants in the case: Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, 53, of Farmington Hills, who is accused of letting Nagarwala use his clinic to perform genital cutting procedures on minor girls; and his wife, Farida Attar, 50, who is accused of holding the girls’ hands during the procedure to keep them from squirming and to calm them.
The government believes the three defendants, all members of a local Indian-Muslim sect, subjected numerous girls to genital cutting procedures over a 12-year period. To date, the government says it has identified eight victims — including the two Minnesota girls — though Woodward said the government estimates there could be as many as 100 victims. She said that’s a conservative estimate, and that it’s based on Dr. Attar’s alleged admission to authorities that he let Nagarwala use his clinic up to six times a year to treat children for genital rashes.
Attar’s lawyer, Mary Chartier, scoffed at the claim.
“I think the government has overstated so many aspects of this case and this is one more example of overreaching,” Chartier said after the hearing, during which she and another lawyer convinced the judge to set the Attars free.
The defense has argued that the Attars did not engage in any criminal act and that the procedure at issue is a protected religious rite-of-passage that involves no cutting, but rather a scraping of genital membrane. They also argued the Attars are not a danger to the society and have no reason or desire to flee, convincing U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman to release them on bond….
Irene Brekelmans says
You ought to be kidding me, where are the laws and how can it be that the judges overrule the laws of the land where we have to keep too. It is to scream sometimes!!!But you muslims will not conquer our countries. You can’t barge in here and change everything, we have done enough for you, so sty within your own religion, but in the countries you came running from.
Samson says
They (mus-slums)are already changing it
Look around
Jack Holan says
Savages
Revoke
My other peeve since I cannot get an answer from my Senators or Representative, Dept of State, DHS
ARE THE REFUGEES ALLOWED TO BRING MORE THAN 1 WIFE? DO THEY ALL GET BENEFITS LIKE IN EUROPE?
Samson says
The answer is yes
I know for a fact that many have more than one wife
Yes benefits and much more
DiploNerd says
Some European countries allow them to bring in more than one wife but, by law, the U.S. does not allow it. That being said, some will bring in one wife, divorce her on paper, then bring the second wife, and perhaps a third. This is only one of many scams that consular officers watch for, but it can be difficult to prove or disprove.
St. Michael Defend Us says
Or, a man will bring in his wife and children, and, his wife’s “sister” and HER children and so forth. So the household will consist of a man, a number of “sisters” and all the children. Somehow, the “sisters” husbands can’t be with them. And, of course, they may actually BE sisters- I do not think islam forbids the marrying of sisters.
john spielman says
I hope Michigan jails everyone who had a part in this evil! esp the “doctors”
mortimer says
The judge should give a reasonable punishment for one count and then multiply that punishment by 100. Only then will this aberration be stopped.
If the sentence is not adequate, the people need to rise up, organize and protest.
It looks like the fake Feminists are ducking this OBVIOUS and EGREGIOUS example of misogyny and patriarchy.
The declared goal of FGM in Islamic commentary is to limit sexuality in a woman and thus render her more submissive.
Westman says
True enough. Frankly, as an Agnostic, I think this circumcision adoption for the males was to defeat its use by Jews as a primitive friend-foe identification system to catch spies. I think the “circumcision” for females was to temper resistance from the males. Given the claim that Muhammad asked not to cut severely, yet it is the common practice, clitorectomy, there must be an paternal element, held by the male ummah, of intentionally cheating females out of sexual pleasure. In fact, at any level, Quranic, or, on its surface, Islam cheats women.
Islam takes “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, and leaves only life – for Muslim women and subjugated dhimmis.
Why are the feminists, music and film stars not lining up for this treatment if it’s “the thing” to do to become like Sarsour?
v says
http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/circumcision/basics/why-its-done/prc-20013585
http://www.catie.ca/en/fact-sheets/prevention/penile-circumcision-reduce-risk-hiv-infection
Westman says
“Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.” 1 Cor 7:19
Circumcision is a barbaric practice that makes cabin payments for the medical profession. All excuses for it, as routine, are justfications to avoid religionist’s ire or keep the money for procedures, the way doctors groups are paid, flowing into the medical groups to which they must belong and for which they must maximize profit.
I made certain that such was not committed on my sons and they have thanked me for it. I am not a deep religionist although I do recognize an organizing hand behind the universe and cannot imagine that such an entity has such poor design ability that, millions of years into the development of humanoids, it declared its mistake and ordered parts of bodies cut off. What nonsense.
If you really swallow that hogwash about circumcision having some benefit, ask your wife how protected she would feel if her outer labias were removed. That’s exactly the exposure caused by routine circumcision. Think for yourself, get outside the credibility sales game.
St. Michael Defend Us says
This reply is really for Westman.
This is, of course, purely anecdotal. Back in the 20’s and 30’s, children were frequently born at home, as were my mother and her younger siblings. When her little brother was born, he was not circumcised, but not due to any convictions of her parents one way or the other. However, when the little boy was older, but pre-puberty, something went wrong and he needed a hospital stay and surgical circumcision. My mom (at that time a teenager or young adult) felt that the child underwent psychological and emotional upset which could have been easily prevented by having it performed in infancy. So, my mom felt it was a good thing to do, but, not for any religious reason.
But, like I say, this is just the experience of one family.
Jack Holan says
The claim that this is a Religious matter (Freedom) doesn’t hold water. If the Quran said go out and Kill every Jew & Christian, would Sharia trump TheUS Constitution? Oh I forgot the Quran does command believers to gout and slay. Does this make it lawful? It does ISIS ALQUEDA many Imams one caught on video in Canada and England. I suppose they’ll push for this in Part B of the MB Plan
Jayke says
I can “scrape” something until it is completely gone.
Hilly says
I was wondering what is their full definition of scraping—exactly what is scraped and how much/to what extent, and what sort of tool is used to perform this procedure?
somehistory says
Claiming that it is a “protected religious *rite of passage*” is conniving on the part of the *lawyer.*
She is well aware, if she really passed a bar legitimately, that there is no such thing.
Religion is only partly “protected.” There is to be no establishment of religion by the Federal government and there is “freedom of speech.”
If someone claims to have religious freedom to avoid doctors for their children, cut the hearts out of humans, kidnap and rape children, etc, there are laws to prevent these and no religion is protected from those laws.
Neither is the religious mutilation of little girls protected by the Constitution. If moslums are allowed to break laws in their practice of “religion,” this will basically “establish islum” as the Federal religion.
No other religion gets by with claiming “religious protection” for anything they may see as necessary if that practice is against the law.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Out of the respect due to the adult Moslems in this affair, let me put this question as nastily as possible: how many of these clit chop jobs were paid for by Medicaid? I’m still upset about having to help pay for the dowries at the mass child bride wedding in the West Bank, but this is too much.
DiploNerd says
In Egypt, which is approximately 90% Muslim, FGM is a felony.
In Saudi Arabia, a nation that prides itself on being the birthplace of Islam, FGM is not practiced.
The last words of Muhammad’s uncle Hamza, at the battle of Uhud, were shouted at his Meccan “enemy” who was a polytheist. Hamza shouted, “Come here, you son of a clitoris cutter!” I doubt he meant it as a compliment.
John Krupa says
FGM: THIS IS PRIMARY EVIDENCE DEMONSTRATING THE ABSOLUTE REFUSAL OF MUHAMMEDANS TO ASSIMILATE INTO WESTERN CULTURE!
Can we here in the West not see the profound underlying barbaric intentions of this savage brutality against the future “mothers of our American generations”?
Please inform me/us whether there is, more so than FGM, ANY clearer “statement” regarding this ABSOLUTE REFUSAL, of this anti-west death cult muhammedanism, to assimilate into our USA [Western] culture:
[a] young girls — who in fact are American citizens — are MUTILATED by this barbaric cultural practice, are disfigured brutally and are scarred physically, emotionally and psychologically … FOR LIFE!
[b] The primary reason for this is CONTROL of future generations, i.e., precluding them from assimilating normally into our Western culture.
[c] Young girls/ladies — so vulnerable at these early ages — so terribly brutalized and traumatized by this agonizing procedure, are forced to the state where they find themselves disfigured grossly, and so humiliated, that most [all?] are ONLY going to marry within this same death cult; yes, the same death cult which brutalized them initially.
[Although, so far, I have not read such, IMO, it does not take much of a leap of logic to conclude that it is precisely because of FMG that the “child brides”, or any young lady so brutalized, do not object more vehemently, as they would have otherwise, when forced into these obscene marital relationships.]
[d] Thus, the VICIOUS and BARBARIC death cult cycle continues — with NO or minimal assimilation — as such ladies, traumatized in their youth, will have a much greater tendency to do the same with their own female offspring — future American generations — and on and on … and on.
For this reason alone, IMO, practitioners of FGM MUST be found out, prosecuted and punished to the full extent of the law; in fact, I can only hope that the penalties for such barbarity — especially because this crime is perpetrated against some of our most vulnerable American citizens — be increased substantially.
FOR THE SAKE OF OUT NATIONAL SOUL, THIS BARBARISM MUST STOP! THIS IS AMERICA! WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE LAWS REGARDING THE PROTECTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL!
Norma E Bennett RN says
This is a violation of women’s “pursuit of happiness” aclu should take it up. Yes “mutilating a woman’s Clitoris is bringing her into slavery to (any) man ( muslim/muhamedian haha be careful) what you do, ). Slaves got collars or their ears pierced on the owners doorpost!!! Hagar was given ratab and a spring by God to nourish and protect her and Ismael!! Muhamad read Myrams “bible” and she told him God was talking to him….
John Krupa says
Norma E Bennett RN, thank you for your reply … and especially an extra VERY BIG THANKS for using words that should be staring ALL freedom-loving Americans [Westerners] in the face: the pursuit of happiness, the violation thereof via FGM… and the obvious out-loud-cry for aclu to champion these most aggrieved true victims.
I was looking for more appropriate words to describe the actual violations, and, shame on me, because I did not go to the universally applicable words as penned originally by our Founders; where, such words, are as true today … and will be true for all of the humanity for all time.
Note: extra big thanks to you because, further, I have NOT seen before these words, SO appropriate, used in the discussion and description of the results of this barbaric dehumanizing practice. If nothing else, FGM is one of the grossest violations of Natural Law; a law which is not respected by the death cult muhammedans. This cult is truly sick; ethically, morally, etc.
Again, this cult MUST be stopped.
In Freedom, in God and in Unity.
Buford says
No matter what these Barbaric Demented creatures do Politicians like Maxine Waters Camela Harris & a bunch of other Democratic House & Senate Members will defend there actions & you are an Islamaphobe for condemning
there Demonic behavior.
Norma E Bennett RN says
Until their babies are thrown in the fire!! What next? Sathi??? A democracy is by for and to the people. These females are part of “We the people”. This is tyranny and slavery while “We the people” are forced to stand by and watch….some Democracy this!!!!
Matthieu Baudin says
How long are we going to have these ‘discussions’ about the moral and legal admissibility of castrating young girls? Please draw to my attention any form of child sexual abuse which is more extreme or more permanent.
Henner720 says
Look at there faces. Have some liberals send there kids to sommercamp with them. Put the cuttings in the rizotto.
Tee 'n' the Wildlife says
Farida Attar is accused of holding their hands “to keep them from squirming and to calm them”? Who held their legs open?!
abad says
These two “doctors” should be deported back to Syria.
Screeminmeeme says
Alan Dershowitz will be on the defense team of one of the ‘doctors’. I guess its $$$$ before principle.
Swell.
Larry says
We have laws that bar the religious practice of bigamy and slavery and burning the widow. No one claims privileges to practice them in the US. We must ban genital mutilation of children and infants.