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.
Why does it matter whether or not FGM is Islamic? Because the practice will never be eradicated if its root causes are not confronted. As long as those Muslims continue to believe that Allah and Muhammad want it done, for some that will override all other considerations.
This conviction is good, but in America, a case against two doctors who performed FGM was thrown out; the Leftist activist judge said the law against FGM was unconstitutional. And so more little girls will suffer.
“Qld mum convicted over genital mutilation,” by Warren Barnsley, Newcastle Herald, February 13, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A woman has been convicted in Brisbane of arranging for her daughters’ genitals to be mutilated.
A Queensland woman has been found guilty of arranging her two daughters to have their genitals mutilated in Somalia.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denied she had taken the girls, then aged 12 and nine, to her birth nation in April 2015 to undergo the procedure.
She was convicted by a Brisbane District Court jury on Wednesday of two counts of removing a child from the state female genital mutilation (FGM)….
The trial heard the woman, who had undergone a similar procedure as a girl, had her daughters endure FGM a few days after arriving in Somalia.
One of the girls was called inside from playing outside her grandmother’s house and had no idea what was about to happen when she had the painful procedure.
She was conscious throughout and it caused pain for days. Her sister was also subjected to the procedure, also with their mother by her side.
“(Their mother) had them in her care for the entire time. She was there when they were mutilated not long after they arrived in Somalia,” crown prosecutor Dejana Kovac said.
“She extended the trip to give them time to heal before returning to Australia.”
The family returned to their home in the Logan area, south of Brisbane, seven months later. Then the girls’ stepsister tipped off child safety services.
The girls told Queensland police about their experiences, leading to the charges against their mother….
In a police interview, the woman said their trip had been to visit her mother and she’d done “nothing” in relation to a genital mutilation procedure.
Whatever had happened to the girls was “from God”, she said.
Asked by Justice Leanne Clare if there was any reason why sentencing should not be passed down, the woman, through an interpreter, said she had cancer and back problems….
Ever the victim.
somehistory says
She has a “cancer” …a demonic one, but the “problem” she has is not in her back…its’ in her head and heart.
A creature like this one, has no love, no decency, no empathy, no sympathy…not even for her own two little daughters. Truly disgusting. There is no punishment harsh enough, but she deserves the worst that can be levied against her… even if she has health issues. After all, she caused serious health issues for the little girls…things that can’t be undone.
And to “blame God.” The True God is not responsible for evil, but the enemy of God, satan the devil, is the source.
smoris says
So . . . what was the sentence? Did the creep get off? These girls need to be placed with someone else. This woman needs to spend many, many years locked up. She must never, ever be allowed near children again. Does Australia have a clinic like Wales does, where girls who have been subjected to this outrageous abuse are helped?
Indiana Tom says
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’])
I wish sterilization was mandatory
Anjuli Pandavar says
One of our greatest weaknesses in the face of jihad is not only that we corrupt our own morality to accommodate Muslims, but that we want to play fair with them as if they, in turn, would then reciprocate that fairness. Of course not! But our leaders have not always been this obstinate in their suicidal self-righteousness. Raymond Ibrahim, in his Sword and Scimitar, gives an account of Byzantine Emperor Leo III (c. 685-741) using the Muslim practise of circumcision, and in particular female circumcision, against caliph Omar, who was threatening Byzantium with the biggest jihad army and navy the Muslims had amassed to date.
Leo III prevailed against the jihad because he knew history, knew Islam, understood the Muslim mind, and was willing to play them at their own game. He saw clearly that appealing to reason and reasonableness cuts no ice with them and knew, also, that their perception of themselves fills them with disdain for reality (how dare reality contradict the Qur’an). It was a weakness Leo exploited. To make any headway against Muslims at all, Leo understood, it was necessary to either defeat them in battle or *offend them to their core*.
In his letter answering Omar’s demands (quoted in Ibrahim), the Emperor chose his words carefully and knew exactly what outcome to expect when he wrote to Omar that he, “ought to be ashamed of the fact that at so modern a time as ours, when God has delivered the human race by breaking the bonds of the [Old Testament] law, you announce yourself a defender of circumcision.” Leo pressed this point in order to achieve maximum offence, stressing that while God’s ancient law applied to men, “among you, not only males but also the females, at no matter what age, are exposed to this shameful practise.” Leo knew well that by this point, Omar would be well into an uncontrollable rage. The next words Omar read took him right to the edge: “[what] you call ‘the way of Allah’ [jihad], brings death and captivity to all peoples,” and, finally, “you are far from thinking that in killing all those who resist you, you are putting yourself to an eternal death.” Leo had gone where no rage could reach. Caliph Omar was forced to see what he really was and had no choice but to acknowledge that he had run into his moral better. The caliph significantly reduced the jizya in his dominions and lifted many of the most onerous provisions of the Dhimma. It was clear that Omar’s humanity had been released, his Phoenix freed to rise from the ashes. In his heart, the caliph had converted to Christianity, and, as if to confirm Leo’s charge of Muslim depravity, his subjects murdered their apostate caliph. Thus was the “eternal death” of which Leo spoke, restored.
DP111 says
Somalis are in Australia too.
Why?
Alkimos says
Would that be the same Somalia that she probably received refugee status from on account of being in fear for her life ?..would that be the one ?
sidney penny says
“the Leftist activist judge said the law against FGM was unconstitutional. And so more little girls will suffer.”
Robert if you read the decision the problem was in the way the prosecution presented the case.
TruthHonestReality says
The real tragedy here is that the west now has so many of these muslimes here in all the countries our ancestors built. Each day less and less of our people are created and more die from old age and each day more square mileage is being taken over.
But it’s cool, as long as it’s not you being personally affected who cares right!?!
Wake up people?
carpediadem says
People are awake. But instead of campaigning against these horrors, they sit on blogs pontificating.
gravenimage says
Actually, a lot of people are still very much in denial about the threat of Islam.
Samuel A. Abady says
The characterization of Detroit Senior District Judge Bernard Friedman as a “Leftist activist judge” is way off base. Judge Friedman is a conservative Republican appointed to the bench by President George H.W. Bush. His decision dismissing the case reflects a conservative jurisprudential philosophy to keep Congress from encroaching on the states when enacting criminal laws.
There were two decisions in the case. In his first decision, Judge Friedman unequivocally characterized female genital mutilation as “evil.” United States v. Nagarwala, 2018 WL 405122 (E.D.Mich., 2018)
In his second decision, Judge Friedman summarized the matter:
“This case concerns female genital mutilation (“FGM”). There are eight defendants. The government alleges that Dr. Jumana Nagarwala performed the procedure, that Dr. Fakhruddin Attar allowed Dr. Nagarwala to use his clinic in Livonia, Michigan, to perform the procedure, that Farida Attar and Tahera Shafiq assisted Dr. Nagarwala in performing the procedure, and that the other defendants (Farida Arif, Fatema Dahodwala, Haseena Halfal, and Zainab Hariyanawala), who are the mothers of the victims, brought their daughters to the clinic for the procedure.”
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“Defendants seek dismissal of all of the FGM charges – substantive, conspiracy, and aiding and abetting – on the grounds that Congress lacked authority to enact § 116(a) (“the FGM statute”).
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The “States possess primary authority for defining and enforcing the criminal law.” (Citation omitted.) In the same vein, the Supreme Court has noted that in the area of “criminal law enforcement … States historically have been sovereign,” (citation omitted) and that “[t]he Constitution … withhold[s] from Congress a plenary police power.”
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“Congress overstepped its bounds by legislating to prohibit FGM.
United States v. Nagarwala, 2018 WL 6064968 (E.D.Mich., 2018)
Michigan has a large Arab population. The question Michigan citizens should ask is why it took the state legislature until 2017 to outlaw this evil practice. https://www.michigan.gov/mcoles/0,4607,7-229–474092–,00.html.
PRCS says
Correct! Don’t know why Robert keeps misrepresenting that. The unconstitutionality was lumping fgm under the Interstate Commerce Clause.
Samuel A. Abady says
Not sure it’s fair to accuse Robert of “misrepresenting” the matter. Instead, he made an understandable but invalid inference based on widespread media criticism of Judge Friedman’s decision by lay reporters who, like Robert, have no legal training and don’t read case law, or if they read it, didn’t appreciate the constitutional issues at stake, viz., the Commerce Clause [Art.I, Sec. 8, Cl. 3] and Necessary and Proper Clause [Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 18], and concluded erroneously that Judge Friedman’s decision was animated by some politically correct, misplaced, left wing bias which is laughable given his background.
gravenimage says
There is nothing “conservative” about mutilating children.
tim gallagher says
Whenever I read about these female genital mutilation cases I am always staggered that here we are living in the 21st century and there are actually people who are also living in this modern world who still believe in and carry out this primitive garbage. Of course, it is something which should never have existed, but it also seems like something that should have died out 10,000 years or more ago. What is even more staggering is that people who believe in such primitive garbage are allowed to migrate into civilised, western countries. I’m sure these people would lie and would never tell people that they believed in such evil practices until they have already been accepted as migrants in our western nations, but it certainly is alarming that such people, with such primitive, barbaric attitudes, are living in our modern, 21st century societies. It has to be a huge mistake we are making letting such people into our societies..
RegT says
Tim, it _is_ a huge mistake to let them into our country, European countries, and anywhere the culture is based upon Western Civilization. The qur’an commands all muslims to follow it completely, stating that no part of it (or the hadith and sura) may ever be changed.
So while Christian religions matured over the years, ending the Inquisition and other parts of their history that were barbaric, immoral, and inhumane, islam refuses to move into the twenty-first century, electing to continue to follow the seventh-century practices of its made-up “religion”.
Because they also believe that mohammed was incapable of doing anything wrong, muslims still practice as he did – with pedophilia (child-rape, since a nine-year-old girl cannot give informed consent to something she doesn’t understand), sex slaves, the killing of non-believers, the beheading of non-believers, the stoning to death of woman who have been raped (according to islam, it was their fault they were raped), the killing of daughters and even sons for the “honor” of the father, and a host of other atrocities (like the sodomizing of infants – described as being acceptable by the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran).
tim gallagher says
Thanks for your comment, RegT. I agree with every word you’ve written. It frustrates me that everyone in our western societies hasn’t woken up yet and slammed the door on letting any more of these primitive, barbaric people into our countries. Everyone should have woken up by now. Isn’t amazing ( as you point out) that Muslims think Muhammad can do no wrong when he was such an appalling human being and behaved in such a disgusting way.
sf says
that is so no man would ever face not satisfying his woman… concubine.. child bride…. sex slave….
Shirley says
These people need to be evicted from civilised countries, their beliefs are stuck in the neanderthal times where they believe some idiot, riding on a donkey, up in the stars, was and is, the ‘perfect man’…. If this woman came from Somali, was she a ‘refugee, afraid for her life’, and granted entry to Australia??? If so, WHY did she go back on holiday, and for 7 months?? Her status is null and void, she lied and she needs to be deported back to her mother…….the children should be taken from her, no father to worry about, there never is a father. Barbaric practices need to be severely stamped out……NO exceptions, and NO excuses, it does not belong in this day and age, child abuse and mutilation is ILLEGAL in Australia and should be enforced to the nth degree!!
gravenimage says
Australia: Muslim woman convicted of arranging to have her daughters’ genitals mutilated in Somalia
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Glad there she has been tried and convicted.
My understanding is that there has never been a conviction in the UK–and only a single trial has been held there.