“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.”
Note that Shaker Elsayed is quite clear in his remarks that FGM is to be practiced in order to control female sexuality.
Meanwhile , even lawmakers who fatuously praised Dar Al-Hijrah noted that “the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center is affiliated with the Muslim American Society.” The Muslim American Society is the chief arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S., according to Ikhwanweb, the Muslim Brotherhood’s English website. Shaker Elsayed, the mosque’s imam from 2005 to the present, was Secretary General of the Muslim American Society. According to a captured internal Brotherhood document, the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. is engaged in a “grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
There is more. The late jihad leader Anwar al-Awlaki was the imam at Dar al-Hijrah. He is said to have been a “spiritual adviser” to three of the hijackers who attacked America on September 11, 2001. Al-Awlaki was also in regular contact with Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, the Christmas underwear bomber who tried to blow up a passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.
Former Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who murdered thirteen Americans in a jihad massacre at Fort Hood in Texas, worshiped at Dar al-Hijrah when he lived in the area and was in touch with al-Awlaki shortly before he carried out his attack.
The Saudi-backed North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, bought the mosque’s grounds in 1983. Mohammed al-Hanooti, the mosque’s imam from 1995 to 1999, was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali taught Islamic studies and was a camp counselor at the mosque; he is now in prison for plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush. Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar, a member of the mosque’s Executive Committee, was convicted in November 2007 of contempt and obstruction of justice for refusing to testify regarding Hamas and received an eleven-year prison sentence.
“Dar al-Hijrah Imam Endorses (Partial) Female Genital Mutilation,” by John Rossomando, IPT News, June 2, 2017 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Female genital mutilation (FGM) can be an effective tool to prevent promiscuity among girls, the imam at a prominent northern Virginia mosque claimed in a recent lecture flagged by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
Without it, “hyper-sexuality takes over the entire society and a woman is not satisfied with one person or two or three,” said Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center Imam Shaker Elsayed in a May 19 talk, “Foundation of a Happy Family.” Only tip of a girl’s clitoris should be cut, he said, otherwise it creates “serious harm in the sexual life of the child when she grows up. And this is why the West thinks of alkhikah as sexual mutilation…”
The video remains posted on the Falls Church, Va. mosque’s YouTube channel.
Muslim societies which prohibit FGM are making a mistake “to prohibit the tradition and they end up causing a lot of damage on the other extreme side of the sexual life of a woman,” Elsayed said.
He isn’t the only prominent voice in the U.S. Muslim community endorsing female genital mutilation. The Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America (AMJA) endorses the practice in two fatwas posted on its website, using justifications similar to Elsayed’s. While not required, one fatwa says, “it is considered an honorable thing for females.”
Islamist advocates argue that FGM has nothing to do with Islam.
After several Detroit area doctors were charged with violating Michigan’s ban on female genital mutilation in April, activist Linda Sarsour denounced denouncing the practice as contrary to Islam.
“FGM has no place in Detroit or anywhere else in the world. FGM is barbaric & not an Islamic practice,” Sarsour wrote.
She should target that message to its proponents. Sarsour spoke at a fundraiser at Elsayed’s mosque six days before his talk on female anatomy and promiscuity. FGM did not come up, but Sarsour described Islam’s prophet Mohammed as “a feminist in his own right.”
After several Detroit area doctors were
eduardo odraude says
When the Persians invaded ancient Greece, an oracle foretold that a Spartan king would have to die for Greece to be saved. If I recall right, it was King Leonidas who died at Thermopylae, after he and a few thousand Greeks held off a Persian army of a hundred thousand or more for a few days.
The West if it is to be saved, does not need kings to die, but it needs many more citizens willing to die to preserve Western freedoms, including the freedom to criticize religions, especially the totalitarian religion of Islam. Or the West might not be saved.
Ric says
I am having a lot of trouble about this. State Medical boards need to get out in front of this and quickly.
In the past my state board has stated positions on advertizing issues, attending state executions, social media and prescription writing practices.
Two regulations are all that would be necessary:
1. Failure to report statute when examination discovers said “procedure was done”
2. Prohibition of stated procedure with permanent loss of license when discovered.
Carolyne says
Several years ago the American Pediatric Society sent out a bulletin to its members recommending that they just “Knick” the clitoris in order to satisfy the religious requirements of Muslims. There was a tremendous uproar about it and Society quickly rescinded its recommendation. But it will happen again when they think no one is looking.
pnr says
study Vedanta.
A Woman says
Don’t study Vedanta. It advocates rape. “When she has removed the clothes of impurity and appears beautiful, he should approach her and speak to her. If she does not willingly yield her body to him, he should bribe her with presents. If she is still unyielding, he should strike her with a stick or with his hand and overcome her, repeating the following mantra:’With power and glory I take away your glory.’ She thus becomes discredited” – Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Chapter 6.4.6 , OUP/6.4.6.7, Harper Collins**
Northern Virginiastan says
Chek out this video of Shaker Elsayed endorsing armed jihad, http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2015/12/december-11-2015-broadcast-of-pbs.html
carol says
How absurd when he complains about being accused as “terrorists” and follows up by saying “Well then, we’ll give them a run for their money!
DRHazard says
“‘Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband.’”
So what happens if the cutter messes up and cuts more than “not severely”? Does he go to jail for ruining the life of the girl? Among all the stupid things Muslims claim about their religion one of the stupidest is that Islam is pro-woman. But feminists are so busy trying not to be racist they ignore the wide spread mutilation and painfully obvious second class status women have in Islam. In this quote from a respected Hadith compiler we see that even the most meager concern for women ends up being about men after all. I guess you want to cut just enough to make sex painful instead of causing numbing nerve damage. What a weird, ugly religion.
abad says
Right??
Seems to me their Hadith needs to be amended to do away with FGM and concentrate on the daily use of soap and water instead.
No amount of bodily mutilation, body hair depilation or otherwise is going to substitute for soap and water.
None.
See how truly sick and perverse Islam is?
carol says
How does this “big daddy figure” fancy he knows just how much of a clitoral cut will minimize and prevent “rampant female horniness” versus damaging the sexual life of a sacred, unique and independent female child? We don’t hurt and rob our helpless children in Western lands and we aren’t threatened by females “coming into their own types of power”. Get out of here if you don’t like the itch in your pants or the diminishment of the boys club’s sense of importance (having females under their thumbs and at their beck and call). Throw a bag over yourselves, stand aside, and let your women have opportunities and growth.
Islam INSULTS any real universal God by taking it upon itself to viciously attack any anomalies (e.g. homosexuality) or threats to its macho powers (female sexuality). They prefer to “shape” the universe instead of living compatibly with it – all for their treasured sense of being Allah’s little helpers. Pathetic sandcastle fantasies poisoning life.
gravenimage says
Notice that this thug considers mutilating children the “foundation of a happy family”.
And the idea that this is some sort of ‘nick’ is absurd–it would not effect a girl’s sexuality if her clitoris was not removed. *Ugh*.
He should be deported and the Mosque closed.
Carolyne says
If a young girl becomes sexually promiscuous, there must be a male involved. What would the Imam do to them? I have a couple–well three–ideas.
Yokel says
Video gone. Has it bounced up ahywhere else, yet?
Matthieu Baudin says
Female Castration is an evil sharing the lowest level of slavery itself and the U.S. should move quickly to banish it quickly and permanently. There is no room for fudging, ducking and weaving around the issue – it is the most violent and permanently scaring form of child sexual abuse in existence.
Peter says
Look at the man’s eyes in the photo and tell me that’s not evil.