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Somalia: Two young Muslim sisters die after being subjected to female genital mutilation

Sep 16, 2018 2:56 pm By Robert Spencer

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.

“2 Young Sisters Die After Undergoing Female Genital Mutilation,” KCUR, September 14, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):

Editor’s note: Given the subject this story explores, the discussion includes some explicit language.

Two sisters from a remote pastoral village in Puntland State, Somalia, died on Sept. 11 of complications from a female genital mutilation (FGM) procedure.

An “inexperienced self-proclaimed traditional circumciser” performed the procedure the day before, according to Dr. Mohamed Hussein Aden, director of the University Teaching Hospital in Galkayo, Somalia, who sent an email with his comments to NPR.

According to Aden, the procedure caused profuse bleeding, and the girls died of hemorrhagic shock en route to the hospital, about 75 miles from the location of the procedure.

Aden indicated that the girls — Aasiyo Farah Abdi Warsame, 10, and Khadijo, 11 — underwent the form of FGM known as infibulation, in which the clitoris and labia are cut and re-stitched to narrow the vaginal opening.

Claudia Cappa, senior adviser of statistics for child protection and development at UNICEF, told NPR that infibulation is commonly practiced in Somalia and is the most invasive type of FGM procedure.

“Infibulation is the most severe form of FGM and cutting, which [can] result in the death of the girl,” Cappa says.

The deaths of the two sisters this week follow the death of another Somali girl, Deeqa Nuur, 10, in July 2018, who also hemorrhaged after an FGM procedure.

The cases underscore concerns about FGM in Somalia, which the U.N. says has the highest prevalence in the world. Ninety-eight percent of women between the ages of 15 and 49 have undergone FGM. The practice is legal in Somalia.

Worldwide, the World Health Organization estimates that more than 200 million women and girls have experienced some form of FGM….

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Filed Under: Featured, female genital mutilation, Somalia Tagged With: Aasiyo Farah Abdi Warsame, Khadijo, Puntland


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Comments

  1. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 3:05 pm

    “Outrage on Twitter as Bannon appears at Economist fest, voices support for Orban & Salvini”
    https://www.rt.com/news/438570-bannon-economist-festival-outrage/

    Trump’s biggest mistake: letting Bannon go.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Sep 17, 2018 at 5:36 pm

      Trump’s loss, Europe’s gain.

  2. pemba says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 3:05 pm

    What a waste of precious life, just to follow barbaric tradition of Islam.It is not that uneducated Muslims just carry out FGM, Highly educated Muslims of Bohora and other shia/sunny community follow the tradition of
    FGM.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 16, 2018 at 10:51 pm

      +1

    • J D S says

      Sep 19, 2018 at 12:44 am

      More stupidness in Islam and it’s adherents……..
      No one can Find any of the Islamic stupidness in Christianity and that’s fact!
      I just can’t understand the government not finding so many ways that Islam could not be considered a God Based, Jesus Covenant, religion, the religion our great country was founded on, so as to ban it and remove all religious freedoms from it…Talk about stupidness?

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 3:09 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 !

    • Patricia Walker says

      Sep 16, 2018 at 3:46 pm

      Walter, Thank you for the reference. Somehow, I missed it before now. Yes, they MUST be stopped.

  4. gravenimage says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 10:34 pm

    Somalia: Two young Muslim sisters die after being subjected to female genital mutilation
    ………………..

    *Poor little girls*.

    God, I hate Islam.

  5. mortimer says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 11:26 pm

    Islam hates women and Islam hates kafirs. Both are slaves for the Muslim male supremacist.

    The lives of both are virtually valueless to the Muslim male supremacist.

  6. mortimer says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 11:32 pm

    Muslims LIE about almost everything … even about what SHARIA LAW SAYS in the very words of their LAW MANUAL.

    The translator of Reliance of the Traveller, Nuh Ha Meem Keller (an American) LIED in his translation.

    Rev. Mark Durie CAUGHT HIS LIE : circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr ‘clitoris’ [this is called khufaadh ‘female circumcision’]).” — Umdat al-Salik e4.3, (translated correctly by Mark Durie).

    ISLAM IS MANY LIES THROWN TOGETHER THAT ARE PROTECTED AND SHIELDED FROM EXAMINATION BY ARMIES OF OTHER LIES.

  7. Panmelia says

    Sep 17, 2018 at 7:41 am

    This barbarism must not be referred to, or allowed to be referred to, as a ‘procedure’ as if it is a bona fide medical procedure. It is wickedly cruel sexual abuse carried out by psychopaths brainwashed by a wicked belief system founded by a wicked psychopath. Every female born into this belief system is automatically a victim of the most appalling misogyny and hellish abuse, physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and economically, whether or not she is subjected to the torture of FGM.

    Only when islam is outlawed in all Western countries will we see any improvement in our own situation. It’s about time the idiotic politicians stopped ‘respecting’ islam as a ‘religion’ and recognised it for the worst and most evil belief system ever to arise in the world, one we must strive to eradicate for the good of womankind.

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