Establishment media treatments of female genital mutilation routinely insist that it has nothing to do with Islam, but actually 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.
“Doctor in genital mutilation case at war with feds,” by Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, August 6, 2018:
The doctor at the center of a historic genital mutilation case has another favor she’s asking of the judge: let me use the Internet.
This, on top of — please dismiss more charges against me.
More than a year after her arrest in the nation’s first female genital cutting case, the defiant Dr. Jumana Nagarwala continues to pound away at the government for pursuing the case. She claims, among other things, that the law that’s being used to prosecute her is unconstitutional, so therefore the key charges against her need to be dropped….
Nagarwala, who is accused of cutting the genitalia of dozens of prepubescent girls and instructing members of her religious community to lie about it, has asked permission to use the Internet for 78 hours a month to watch religious live-streamed sermons. Specifically, as a member of a small Indian Muslim sect known as the Dawoodi Bohra, she wants to watch services that celebrate a nine-day holiday honoring Prophet Mohammed’s grandson.
The government says forget it, arguing there’s no way to monitor Nagarwala’s online access 78 hours a month given that the sermons she intends to watch are overseas, private and need password access. And it’s too risky to let her to do it, prosecutors argue, noting the no-Internet-access condition was set because of concerns that she is a flight risk and a danger to the community….
The defendants are challenging the 22-year-old federal law that criminalizes female genital mutilation, which has never been used before this case. The statute states: “Whoever knowingly circumcises, excises or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of another person” under the age of 18 shall be fined or imprisoned for up to five years, or both.
Prosecutors argue Nagarwala did exactly that — with the help of the Attars — when she cut the genitals of two 7-year-old Minnesota girls who were tricked into the procedure in 2017 by their mothers and cried and bled afterward. Though prosecutors cite six victims in the indictment, including four Michigan girls, they allege Nagarwala may have subjected up to 100 girls to the procedure over a 12-year period.
Nagarwala has maintained she committed no crime, but that she engaged in a religious ritual that involved only a “shaving” or a “nick” of the genitals.
Moreover, she now claims she’s being prosecuted under a law that “Congress lacked authority to enact … thus the female genital mutilation charges must be dismissed.”
“The law was never debated on the floor of either chamber of Congress nor was there ever any legislative hearing addressing the justification or need for the federal law. Instead, all that exists is the criminal statute itself,” defense lawyers wrote in the July 27 filing, claiming the driving force behind the legislation was one lawmaker’s belief that the prohibited conduct was ‘repulsive and cruel.’ “…
Nagarwala, the Attars and the other five defendants are all members of a small Indian Muslim sect known as the Dawoodi Bohra, which has a mosque in Farmington Hills. The sect practices female circumcision and believes it is a religious rite of passage that involves only a minor “nick.”…
Jaladhi says
Next, she will say that slitting infidel’s throat is not a crime, its religious ritual!! And the Western leaders will fall for it! Morons!
mortimer says
The creep of Sharia to be the MASTER above the US constitution? No.
Be an American or leave.
Frederick King says
After she is convicted and finishes her jail time, please deport her.
ronyvo says
You have a valid point, Jaladhi. So raping the infidel girls and the destruction of churches…etc.
Islam is criminal. So, any teachings in their diabolical Koran is criminal and those who commit any of them should be severely punished according to our laws.
Isn’t that logical and makes full sense?!!!!
Augustine says
I suppose to cut a person’s throat can be considered a “nick” while decapitating a man would be “shaving”? Interesting logic needing to be taken out a bit further to see what is happening.
Terry Gain says
Take away her medical license and throw her in jail, and if she’s not a citizen, deport her. Muslims don’t integrate. They conquer.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Terry.
mike9a says
Is beheading religious ritual as well?
Anton says
I suggest yes. Nevertheless performing such rituals doesn’t mean it’s lawful.
mike9a says
as well as: blowing up; killing for blinking incorrectly or leaving the cult or ‘honor’ killing; hating & killing: Jews, Christians, Kaffirs, gays; raping; marring kids; laying; stabbing; betting wife; having sex with animals, having slaves . . . .from where I just extracted a such religious practices? I “suggest” to take a look at the hate manual!
Was slavery lawful in the 16 -mid19, century? Was killing Jews lawful during Nazi Germany? . . . When do one stop justifying?
Kessler says
Off-topic, sorry; as jihadwatch no longer has the slide on top with recent stories, does it mean that all stories are finally displayed on the main page?
somehistory says
For older stories, and there are so many new ones every day; makes it hard to keep up, one must go to the bottom of the page and click on “more posts.”
gravenimage says
Kessler, Jihad Watch is still experiencing technical problems. The whole site was down for most of Saturday.
Carol the 1st says
No PICTURES with lead-ins on the main page to garner interest. You now have to click on “read in browser”. Also no Archives to the right of each article. Cutting down on costs?
gravenimage says
The “slide show” is back now, guys.
Emilie Green says
Islam, continuing to be revealed to the world that it is the Mother Lode of Bad Ideas.
somehistory says
If another person, of another religion, had the “ritual” practice of taking a knife and cutting off the end of a child’s finger, would it not be child abuse?
If another person, with a different religion, had a ritual of cutting off the end of a child’s nose, “just a nick,’ would this not be child abuse?
The fact that she did the cutting…and there was a lot of pain and bleeding…and she told everyone to stay silent, means she knew she was committing a crime every time she hurt a child.
Her lawyers know there is no way she’s getting out of this without prison time. Saying the government body assigned the duty to make law has no authority to make law, is just plain deceitful. And stupid.
The Constitution protects religion, but only as long as no harm is done to another person by the actions of the one practicing the religion. There did not need to be a special law for this child abuse to be a crime. it is a crime to harm a child…physically, mentally, or emotionally…and this practice does all of those.
Even if her lawyers are successful in saying the law is unconstitutional, the laws protecting children…even from their parents, which she is not…can be applied to send her up the river.
And her fake smile, trying to look all soft and innocent, is sickening.
Older Canadian says
Great post. You didn’t miss a step.
somehistory says
Thank you.
mortimer says
She would just as easily CUT THE HAND or FOOT off someone condemned under another SHARIA LAW !
The time to STOP DISCRIMINATORY SHARIA LAW is now… not later.
gravenimage says
+1
J D S says
If it isn’t stopped now…There won’t be any later..Our gullible elected officials, instead of showing some backbone, guts or whatever it takes are going to give America away……They are just a bunch of cowards for not addressing Islam for what it is.
Every day someone in congress should be introducing a bill to do just that…they should be taking turns in doing so along with reading Roberts books into the record…especially JIHAD.. FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS….Wouldn’t that be a hoot!
ronyvo says
You know somehistory, I would not a bit surprised if she escape our laws. Isn’t that madness what is going on in our country?!!
My point is, I don’t blame Muslims for the evilness behavior, I BLAME THE HOST COUNTRIES WHICH ALLOW THEM TO PRACTICE THEIR (MUSLIMS) CRIMINAL ACTS. The so called lefties must be called traitors and treated as such according to our laws.
somehistory says
Guess it won’t surprise me if she wins, but it will make me sick. I’m hoping the prosecutor knows how to argue the case, the judge doesn’t make unfair rulings in her favor, and the jury stays awake and alert and realizes what a monster she is.
Gjallarhornet says
How stupid does muslims like her actually think we are? Do they really think ANY bullshit will fly?
mike9a says
any bs is flying by establishment media and its political poppets, they have no moral compass, just power!
TKF says
Dispose of these savages properly….flush twice.
mortimer says
Many tenets of Islam such as SLAVERY, FGM, HEAD-CHOPPING, HONOR-KILLING, PERSECUTING KAFIRS, SOLICITING GENOCIDE OF KAFIRS, JIZZYA-EXTORTION TAX, VIOLENT JIHAD-TERRORISM and other REQUIRED NORMATIVE PARTS of Islam are ILLEGAL in most countries and EVEN IN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES.
Better find a DIFFERENT UNCIVILZED COUNTRY to live so you can act like BARBARIANS THERE. The rest of the world will build a wall around it and you can stew in the caustic juices of PURE ISLAM … EXACTLY LIKE THE ISLAM OF ISIS.
Indiana Tom says
Muslim doctor in FGM case says she committed no crime, just performed a religious ritual.
Watch…sooner or later some stately Liberal Federal Judge in a liberal district will declare that this violates the Religious Accommodation emanating of the of the Constitution and that it is perfectly legal. This already happened in a wife rape case where a Judge in New Jersey made it legal until overturned a short time later.
Ren says
Problem is: muslim doctor knows that FGM as a religious ritual is a crime in America. Her alibi is not valid. Therefore she deserves prison.
Jaladhi says
Islam is Islam – ISIS didn’t invent Islam. They just follow it – no ifs and buts. This is what the western leaders, media and academia have to understand it instead of rationalizing Muslims criminal behavior by calling iSIS, al Qaeda, or whatever followers but the followers of islam!!
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
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 !
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
[1] ==QUOTE== “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 ==UNQUOTE==
The Prophet (pronoun disambiguation be upon him) says, “Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband.” *What* is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband? Cutting severely, or not cutting severely?
[2] ==QUOTE== Nagarwala … has asked permission to use the Internet for 78 hours a month to watch religious live-streamed sermons. ==UNQUOTE==
On what basis (a hadith?) was this number of hours calculated? That’s more than two and a half hours of video-watching per day. And why do the sermons need to be live-streamed? Won’t recordings suffice?
[3] The law says: ==QUOTE== “Whoever knowingly circumcises, excises or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris OF ANOTHER PERSON [emphasis added]” under the age of 18 shall be fined or imprisoned for up to five years, or both. ==UNQUOTE==
So self-infibulation is perfectly legal. CAIR or some other public-spirited Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization should produce a series of fun instructional do-it-yourself videos for girls.
FYI says
And let’s remember one of islam’s favorite rituals practised by devout jihadists is..
Slaying the unbelievers wherever they find them.
Chet Bundy says
Fellow readers, I was born in Detroit in 1954, when it was the richest city in the world. My parents moved to the new suburb of Southfield shortly therafter. I eventually attended the new and growing St. Bedes School, until my father was transfered out of state. Years later, after our transfer back, I attended many Christmas Midnight Masses at St. Andrews, a Polish Catholic Church where my cousin taught / coached and his wife taught for many years.
On a recent business trip to the Detroit area I visited St. Bedes, to find it abandoned, while a new mosque was across the street. St. Andrews, along with the majority of Detroit’s Catholic parishes are no more. My father managed two different divisions of a Detroit company whose Italian owners name precedes that of his company. And a millitant Islamofascist is currently running for governor of Michigan.
I am speechless when I attempt to respond to the story above, as it is incomprehensible. How can ANY physician perform / justify FGM without immediately losing his license and being charged / convicted? How did these people arrive in America? Why are they in America? Why would any Judeo-Christian American want them in America? We all know the answer…
Kay says
I agree that it’s horrible and unbelievable that these practices are happening in America.
(But I don’t know the answer to why any Judeo-Christian nation would tolerate it in the least. What are you thinking?)
gravenimage says
Yes–hideous. This “doctor” should be in jail.
gravenimage says
Heartbreaking, Chet.
Rosie Barnes says
The whole culture and religion debate is absurd: it is abominable and unacceptable physical and mental abuse of children, and for that reaon IT IS A CRIME in the US, as it is in all 28 countries of the EU. So why are courts even LISTENING to these arguments?
Human sacrifices and burning witches used to be part of the “culture” of some countries: it didn’t make it right. The same goes for FGM.
It is a national disgrace that in Britain, despite being illegal for more that 30 years, there have been no prosecutions. Yet neighbouring France has made dozens.
Japetto Danatelli says
…Nagarwala may have subjected up to 100 girls to the procedure over a 12-year period..
To me she is like a female Dr. Mengele, I’m sure you know him from Auschwitz. If the allegations against her are true then I see little difference between what she did and what Mengele did, it is a serial butchery of young girls. Her defense, it seems, is that it is unconstitutional that she isn’t allowed to mutilate little girls in the name of her religion. And this is a typical defense of muslims who commit crimes for islam. Any crime is justified in their minds if it sustains or furthers the cause of their prophet and god; doesn’t matter how immoral or sinister it may be, for them it’s a matter of religious protection. But for us who are moral and sane it’s a matter of using religion as an excuse to rape, terrorize, and conquer everyone else. And this seems to be the heart of the problem for us non-muslims, as muslims feel it’s their right to terrorize everyone else because their psycho “prophet” told them to. But we don’t have to respect a violent, fascist ideology dressed up as a religion. Islam is a murderous belief system that has inspired genocide against our citizens and others around the world–FACT. It is a flagrant human rights violator, an antagonist against our peace and freedoms, and a real-world threat to the security of our nation(s). The violent and hateful teachings of that ideology are undisguised and pervasive throughout the culture and religion of islam, so there’s no excuse for not knowing all this. Practically everything thing these muslims do is an expression of the hatred and contempt they have for our culture and laws, sharia is their law and the enclaves are their culture. They hate the Jews, they hate our freedoms, they hate equal rights for women, they hate our arts and entertainment because they resent our free spirited natures, they are disdainful of our humanity when they mass rape our kids and women, and they hate free speech because it allows for truths their bigoted little ears can’t stand. Multiculturalism with islam means we live under the constant threat of violence while getting coerced by our government(s) into changing drastically for them. There is nothing “diverse” about all this, it’s simply a conciliation and submission to foreign invaders who are as dangerous as our worst enemy. Russia is typically seen as the West’s worst enemy, but I say islam is just as bad if not worse. Putin doesn’t scare me half as much as the crackpot idiots running islam.
If we can’t protect children from rape and sexual mutilation then we have already lost the war. It’s time to get tough against the criminal and inhumane acts of islam or we have no future as free nations, western civilization will be as dead as the millions in history who have died for islam’s violent political agenda called jihad.
mortimer says
Agreeing with JP. Sharia is the problem. ALREADY, many parts of SHARIA are ILLEGAL in the US and many countries.
There is no more jizzya, no child marriage, no official dhimmi status or dhimmi uniform, there is no beheading, no honor killing, no slavery, no jihad-terrorism, no polygamy, etc. in most countries … even in a large number of Muslim countries… THEY ARE ILLEGAL IN MOST COUNTRIES.
FGM is also illegal and the law should be FULLY enforced. She should get a very considerable fine and short jail time and have her MD licence pulled. And she should get the full five years if she is a repeat offender.
Carol the 1st says
This may seem off-topic but the first hour of this video with Stefan Molyneaux in Australia is fascinating as his description of ABORIGINAL CULTURE is SOOO reminiscent of Islam (FGM, group rape, etc.). Much of their actions were born in near desperation and ignorance, of course. Fortunately these Aborigines did not seem to have a predator mindset (no neighbours to prey upon? or no Mohammed to teach them how to sacralize brutality?)
Molyneux is EXTREMELY PROUD of how whites have often nullified such barbaric cultures and given these natives a far superior alternative. He URGES us to reject foolish WHITE GUILT and to HANG ONTO OUR COUNTRIES AND OUR WESTERN CULTURE.
Lauren Southern Stefan Molyneux Live Australia & New Zealand Tour + Caolan Robertson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMHHx_uRD7o&t=3608s
Japetto Danatelli says
Molyneaux and Southern are both highly intelligent, decent minded people who are getting blasted by their leftist critics who are desperately trying to portray them as islamophobic bigots and white supremacists. I just watched their interview with Patrick Gower of Newshub about their cancelled event. The interviewer looked inept and foolish in his effort to stonewall his brilliant guests. The leftist media doesn’t want to report the facts, they want to disparage conservative views with their slander, half-truths, and misinformation. And now Alex Jones has been banned from several major platforms including You Tube and Facebook (why are we not surprised?). I realize he was a bit of a crackpot, but we need folks like him out there maintaining the boundaries of acceptable free speech. It sets a bad precedent when a political commentator and radio show host with millions of subscribers can get booted for speaking frankly with their opinions. It’s all part of the war the left is waging against conservatives who dare to speak the plain truth about muslims or the government who aids their cause. It’s political meddling and I think it’s going to backfire on ’em. Brietbart reported that Democratic Senator Chris Murphy tweeted,
Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it.
This is how these idiots think. It’s their job apparently to determine for us what we can see, what we can like or dislike, and what’s good for our democracy. We shouldn’t even be in a position to offer our views on the matter, I guess it’s because they’re so smart and we’re so dumb we don’t need to. And this is typical of the left, to call us Nazis while they act like Nazis. There’s that old saying, “Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.” The left is burning books without any regard for the consequences and folks are suffering for it. They tried to dispense with Tommy, I have little doubt they’d kill us too if they got the chance.
Carol the 1st says
Yes, Gower looked like he believed he was the star of the show with the only authorized script. He sure didn’t like it when his guests felt entitled to turn the tables (another leftist Kathy Newman/Jordan Peterson “interview” gone awry, ha ha). I’ve just started to read Peterson’s 12 Rules book and of course you’ll be hearing more! In the Foreword his friend Norman Doidge describes his household – it’s highly decorated with photos and memorabilia from when the Soviet Union collapsed. Like Jamie Glazov, Jordan Peterson takes an intense interest in this totalitarian mindset and the damage it invariably inflicts.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link, Carol. I’ll watch it as soon as I can.
Carol the 1st says
Good!
gravenimage says
Detroit: Muslim doctor in FGM case says she committed no crime, just performed a religious ritual
……………….
This Muslimah means that it isn’t a crime to mutilate children *in Islam*. *Ugh*.
PRCS says
Let’s call it what it is:
“to mutilate little girls–primarily”
I do wonder how many teenage Muslim girls–born in this country–ALLOW that practice to be performed on them. How many of them ALLOW that to be done to their younger sisters. How many of them–who could blow the whistle on that barbarity–don’t. And why they don’t.
Being born here–they know it’s illegal here (the immorality of it aside).
That practice continues because Muslims want it to and it won’t stop until they want it to.
Carol the 1st says
Social pressures (ostracism and the need or desire to indicate “purity” and to find an approving, like-minded partner) carry a lot of weight. Also these young girls do not fully understand their sexual functioning yet – and just possibly Islamic males PREFER not to need to “perform” well for a mere female’s satisfaction and assessment?
gravenimage says
Grimly true, PRCS and Carol.
That doesn’t mean we need to allow these atrocities here. These are crimes and should be punished.
PRCS says
I agree with her!
But not to her benefit.
IMO, although it’s hard to imagine that anyone would have been foolish enough to defend it back then, had that 22 year old statute been publicly debated in Congress, along with a legislative hearing addressing the justification–and the need–for the federal law, the public’s outrage upon learning about that practice (backlash, if you will) would have prevented the whitewash of Islam’s teachings by the “Muslim community” and their useful idiots to have reached the degree it has today.
6woods says
Of course she thinks it will fly, because anything muslims do in the west will fly. We mustn’t be islamophobic, after all. And Turdo admonished Canadians not to deem certain “cultural practices” barbaric.
Carol the 1st says
Jordan B. Peterson would kick his butt down the road. So would Stefan Molyneux.
LOGAN NAIDOO says
this practice is most certainly against the will of god – especially when the dictates of the doctrine of your god state that this god is all perfect and beyond compare – and that he creates in a way that should not be questioned – then why mutilate – hypocrisy at work
somehistory says
Yes, they say their “god” is the greatest, but they find that he didn’t quite do right by little girls and women.
Of course, there is no logic in islam.
LindLinde Barrera says
In the Bronx, NY (near Fordham Road and Grand Concourse) on Thursday, July 26, 2018 I came upon 4 men who were giving out Qurans. I declared: “Why does Islam endorse FGM?” They said to me: “There is nothing in the Quran that says to hurt anybody.” So I said, “It is not in the Quran, it is in the Hadiths, Muhammad said both sexes must be clean.” So then they started talking about the pilgrims owning slaves (Native Americans) and other evil acts committed by various groups in America. I said, “You are talking about behavior. I am talking about doctrine.” So after a half hour talking with them, I got the feeling that I was just talking to the air. These 4 men were politely adamant that their sacred Quran gave no evil instructions to anybody BUT in the case of verse 8:12 where Muslims are told to kill infidels wherever they are, that verse is a response to historical wars on Muslims and THAT VERSE was meant in self defense only.
I conclude that these 4 men were brain-washed and not capable of correctly interpreting what is written in the Quran. Brain-washing is useful toward a specific goal: domination and take-over. Very scary in my opinion. More of us freedom lovers need to pray that Islam doesn’t overtake any more people. ?
Carol the 1st says
Compliments on your self-assertion, Linde. More of us need to begin speaking out directly and for all to hear.
gravenimage says
Good for you for taking them to task, Linde. I did the same some years ago with some Da’wa artists from “Why Islam?”.
One point–I don’t think these thugs were brainwashed into believing that Islam is benign–I think they understood that you were critical of Islam’s viciousness, and so were trying to use Taqiyya on you.
concerned canadian says
Liberals will argue that DEARBORN is a peaceful awesome place.
It gives me the creeps.
Not as bad as UK but getting there.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Charles Martel says
The Law against female genital mutilation was never argued in either house of the Congress because there is NOTHING to argue over. Lock her up for 5 years, revoke her citizenship and those of her accomplices including the parents of the victims, and then deport the lot of them. I am not kidding. There is not room for such barbarians in the West. They have to go.
Carol the 1st says
Look at what they’re costing us! Who needs them and their baggage??
gravenimage says
True, Carol. The biggest toll of Islam is in its suffering, of course–but it is also costing us a fortune, and in places like Sweden may wind up bankrupting society. The West is wealthy, but not endlessly so.
Badger says
Five years and no internet