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Somaliland: Muslim clerics issue fatwa making female genital mutilation mandatory

Feb 25, 2018 12:11 pm By Robert Spencer

They banned two types of FGM, but made the third mandatory. Why did the Muslim clerics issue this fatwa? Don’t they know what every non-Muslim journalist in the West knows, that FGM is cultural and has nothing to do with Islam? Here it is again, for those who are not paying attention:

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

Unless and until its Islamic justifications, which everyone seems to want to cover up and deny, are addressed, FGM will never be eradicated. Anti-FGM movements will tell Muslim women (and men) about the health risks of FGM, and about how barbaric it is to work to deny women sexual pleasure and try to control them, and none of it will stop FGM. All that will wash over believers and what will be left will be the fact that it is justified in Islam — and that is the one thing the anti-FGM campaigners refuse to address. So they will, unfortunately, never succeed.

“Aid agencies decry decision to encourage FGM in Somaliland,” Xinhua, February 25, 2018:

MOGADISHU, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) — …On Feb. 6, Somaliland announced a new fatwa, or religious edict, banning two of the three types of female cutting.

The edict by the Ministry of Religious Affairs allows FGM victims to receive compensation but it does not say whether the compensation will be paid by the government or by violators of the ban.

According to the organizations, the ruling made a certain type of FGM/C “mandatory” for every girl in Somaliland and at the same time banning the most extreme forms.

The religious edict came barely a month after Somaliland’s parliament approved a bill criminalizing rape and requiring prison terms for those who are convicted….

Somalia is among countries in which FGM is most prevalent. An estimated 98 percent of Somali females ages 15 to 49 have undergone the procedure.

The aid agencies said the decision to encourage FGM will erode decades of investments made in ending FGM in Somalia/Somaliland and undermines the mobilization, awareness-raising and prevention work undertaken by communities, national and international organizations and the government aiming at total abandonment of FGM/C in Somalia/Somaliland….

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  1. Gjallarhornet says

    Feb 25, 2018 at 12:55 pm

    Some times you get so tired of the stupidities from these countries that you are left with a feeling like “Let’s just invade the whole country and force them to convert at gun point. In two hundred years their descendants will thank us for it”.

    • nitirous says

      Apr 26, 2018 at 4:15 pm

      This is what happens when the Liturds and Democrats let these scum Bags into our Country and let them be elected to office. They turned their Country in to a s—t hole now they are doing the same to our Country. Open your eyes American before its to late. Drain the Swamp.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 25, 2018 at 2:26 pm

    On the subject of the cruel, brutal and vicious Islamic tradition of female butchery which some Muslims so inappropriately call “female circumcision.” This heinous Islamic custom of misogyny has been exposed in the book by Brigitte Gabriel which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED. For on page 178 it reveals to the reader that “One of the most devastating practices to young girls of the Islamic world is female genital mutilation. Young girls have their clitoris removed without anesthesia…”
    Indeed, they must be stopped !

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 1, 2018 at 12:47 am

      And read Ayaan Hirsi Ali–this Anti-Jihadist actually suffered this mutilation.

  3. R Russell says

    Feb 25, 2018 at 2:30 pm

    How selfish Muslim men are. They can never have the joy of their wives achieving what YHWH intended for them in marriage. Mutual gratification.

    • Westman says

      Feb 25, 2018 at 7:11 pm

      And somehow, after being cheated so they will be “untempted”, Muhhamad says Hell is mostly populated by women. That should get feminist’s attention; so why is it ignored?

      The feminists today are as fake as they come, centered in universities under studies of little worth. Camille Paglia calls this form of feminism, “islands of oppression in a sea of freedom”. She says that professional women have not achieved the happiness they thought would be there and have displaced that angst onto white males and imaginary oppression. It can only get worse as the employment opportunities for narrowly-focused disciplines like “womens studies” decline.

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Feb 25, 2018 at 2:32 pm

    It’d be easy for me to wisecrack gee I wonder how CNN will handle this story. But even if they covered it, there would drop the difference between exposing something by lopping off its skin sheath versus lopping something off altogether. So it’s better that they don’t cover it all all, “they” being not only CNN, but also the two Fox RINO channels, NBC, CBS, ABC, the Jeff Bezos Amazon.com WaPo, the NYT, and even the Detroit Free Press. Nothing is free, not even ignoring something to avoid difficult questions.

  5. Champ says

    Feb 25, 2018 at 2:36 pm

    “Linda Sarsour Caught Lying about Female Genital Mutilation in Islam” …

    • Champ says

      Feb 25, 2018 at 2:38 pm

      Bravo, David Wood!

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 1, 2018 at 12:51 am

      I love David Wood.

  6. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 25, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    I wonder if this article will ever be published by the Pravda inspired mass lamestream media.
    Noooo….

  7. sidney penny says

    Feb 25, 2018 at 10:37 pm

    “three types of female cutting.”

    Who decides at the time fo ” cutting” which one to do and who checks what is done, the cutter?

    A bit like who decides what is and what is not hate speech? Mark Zuckerberg?

  8. Matthieu Baudin says

    Feb 25, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    Clitoral Castration has always been a barbaric crime; a crime against nature and humanity. Traditional Muslims will have to confront the issue and abandon the practice. Those living in non Muslim countries who have aided or abetted this terrible crime should be brought before the courts and press cameras and held to public account. Those Muslim majority countries that do not rigorously move against FGM should be excluded from trade through embargoes while individuals and agencies should be brought before international courts and tribunals. We will not give an inch on Slavery and likewise we will not compromise on the Clitoral Castration of girls.

  9. MFritz says

    Feb 26, 2018 at 12:45 am

    Where the shithole is deepest, you will find Somaliland.

    • mummymovie says

      Mar 5, 2018 at 2:45 pm

      -At the very bottom, in the darkest, depths of the bowels.

      Yet Somalis are still afforded perpetual refugee status for some reason, allowing them to continue to flood into our towns and cities and bring their savage mentalities, backward ideology, misogyny, brutal practices, violent behavior, unwillingness to work, (and active tuberculosis) along with them.

      The footsoldiers of islam continue to march right into my neighborhood every day, and there are noticeably more every week. The same goes for Minnesota, Maine, Vermont, Texas, California, Utah, Idaho, and many more.

      STOP THE HIJRA

      END REFUJIHAD

  10. Ray Jarman says

    Feb 26, 2018 at 12:56 am

    Jay Boo, You make an excellent point. I have yet to witness any movie with FGM as the motif. Only Law & Order has done so on television which is rather ironic since Dick Wolf is very much left of center but the episode was excellent. It was about an Egyptian doctor killed in NYC and in the end it turned out that the girl’s father killed him to protect his daughter. With the butcherer in Michigan faces up to fourteen years in prison.

    Voice of America states: “The practice is found in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and last year UNICEF estimated that 200 million women alive today in 30 countries — 27 African nations, Indonesia, Iraqi Kurdistan and Yemen — have undergone the procedure.” And as Mr. Spencer stated, these countries have one thing in common; they are muslim dominated.

    • mummymovie says

      Mar 5, 2018 at 2:47 pm

      ONLY TWO HUNDRED MILLION?

      Certainly this couldn’t have anything to do with islam! No way!

  11. Bob Carrillo says

    Feb 26, 2018 at 8:27 am

    This “culture” is so chock full of such fun human beings.. Please pardon the use of the word “human’ however…

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 26, 2018 at 1:57 pm

      Wasn’t that officer Noor who shot and killed an innocent womana Somali? Isn’t Minneapolis a Mecca for Somalis? IMO Somalis are the worst of the worst. I don’t even believe they are human.

  12. Garfield says

    Feb 26, 2018 at 12:25 pm

    Muslims are bullies. They use the fear of terrorism to prevent people from speaking out. Why won’t hollywood talk about this? Fear. Of violence.

    Islam contributes NOTHING. It is a parasitic horror.

  13. gravenimage says

    Mar 1, 2018 at 12:27 am

    Somaliland: Muslim clerics issue fatwa making female genital mutilation mandatory
    ……………….

    This is horrifying, but should not surprise–almost 100% of girls in Somalia are mutilated.

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