A young Member of Parliament in India found himself in hot soup for raking up a controversy when an old retweet of his was exhumed by his ideological opponents. Quoting Canadian journalist Tarek Fatah, the first-time parliamentarian had once tweeted, “95% Arab women have never had an orgasm in the last few hundred years! Every mother has produced kids as an act of sex and not love.” The resurfacing of the archived statement ignited an online furor, albeit in the wrong direction. MP Tejasvi Surya was panned by feminists for his “insensitive and racial slur.” However, not a single of these triggered voices condemned the pre-medieval practice that not only scars young girls for life, but also denies them an essential right and pleasure through the years of adulthood, not only among Arab women but other Muslim women as well, along with some non-Muslim women in majority-Muslim areas.
According to the World Health Organization, “FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. It is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children. The practice also violates a person’s rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death.”
Also known as khafz or khatna, the practice is alive and well in India within the Bohra Muslim community. Quite an irony, as the Bohra community is known to be the most liberal and open among all the sects of Islam thriving in the country. Even worse, Mumbai, a metropolitan advanced city of India, the financial capital of the country, has become the hub for the practice of female genital mutilation. Not only do Muslims from the Bohra community in India frequent its practitioners, but after having legal actions begun against them in Australia and the USA over this practice, Bohra expats from other countries have started to crowd into Mumbai to get their little girls cut.
At times these girls are promised a piece of candy, at times a movie featuring their favourite stars, at times a fun outing. The deceit unravels itself as the girl child is ushered into a dingy, dark room through a grimy gully in an inconspicuous corner of the city. She is pinned to a dirty bed, her pants are forced down and the tiny part of her body that, in due course, could have led her into experiencing the greatest pleasures of womanhood is chopped off with knives, blades, or anything sharp and long enough to slit off the clitoris. In most cases, female genital mutation is carried out by older women or untrained midwives with scant regard for personal hygiene and sanitation of the surroundings. The severed flesh is then tossed in a garbage bin, in the name of culture, morality, uprightness and modesty.
Members of the Bohra Muslim community often slander the clitoris as “haraam ki boti.” This Hindi epithet translates to “bastardly flesh” and basically mans “source of sin.” The appalling and discriminatory idea inspiring the practice has been passed on unchallenged through centuries of patriarchy. They fear that if a woman discovered the pleasure of orgasm, in which the clitoris has the paramount part to play, she may go “astray.” She could set out on adventurous explorations to find pleasure outside or before marriage, and bring “dishonour” to her family and to the community.
India, which, with an exhaustive struggle against Islamist fundamentalists engendered by liberals and leftists, succeeded in criminalizing the Triple-Talak, or the Islamic practice of easy divorce for men, still does not have any laws to protect girls as young as six, seven, eight or nine years old against the excruciating and traumatic experience of losing a part of their body, despite female genital mutilation being declared a human rights violation by the United Nations.
“I don’t think I ever enjoyed sex in my marriage. I often wonder what it would have been like if I hadn’t been cut. The sad part is I will never know,” a woman from the Bohra Muslim community from Mumbai shared with a leading news daily, while requesting anonymity.
Feminists who wax eloquent against breast-feeding male babies as a violation of the “my body my choice” protocol have no courage to speak against slicing and stitching the private parts of young girls without their consent, because to do so would “hurt” the Muslim demography they strive desperately to appease and collaborate with. And this, dear readers, is why the third-wave of modern feminism is a joke.
aniruddha says
I am from Mumbai, and this article rips into the hypocrisy of the leftists and the other so-called intellectuals who, even as I write this, are busy writing articles denigrating the Hindu community as ‘fascist’ simply for calling out the evils of Islam. The Muslims are barbarians, be it the way they murder animals by slitting their throats and letting the animals bleed to death, or be it the murderous tradition described above. But the anti-India and anti-Hindu lobby will never breathe a word about any of this, because it does not fit their narrative of labelling India as ‘intolerant’, a nation that supposedly suppresses Muslims, and Islam.
Miguel Ángel says
I am from Glasgow and I can’t express enough how, firstly about these evil practices being carried out on girls repulses me and angers me, but for people not to condone it angers me more. There has never been anyone convicted in the uk yet for this despite it being carried out. To say anything about Muslim practice makes you an intolerant racist in Scotland and indeed the UK. Muslims are barbaric why are they defended??
R Russell says
Miguel Angel
I also am Scottish. You realise that pretty soon we wont be allowed to make comments about anything, though I suspect it will only apply to saying things about Muslims. All it needs is for someone to be offended (And the Muslims appear to be among the most easily offended people on the planet) and the person who said will be charged with a hate crime. Even saying something truthful about Islam will not be a defence for if it upsets someone, the law will be broken.
Peter Buckley says
In the words of their prophet, muslims would become “scum and rubbish”:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The people will soon summon one another to attack you as people when eating invite others to share their dish. Someone asked: Will that be because of our small numbers at that time? He replied: No, you will be numerous at that time: but you will be SCUM AND RUBBISH like that carried down by a torrent, and Allah will take fear of you from the breasts of your enemy and last enervation into your hearts.
https://sunnah.com/abudawud/39/7
Here, a muslim admits that muslims have indeed become scum and rubbish, but gets it completely wrong by claiming it is because muslims AREN’T following Islam:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335200911_The_Reality_of_Muslim_People_Today_Rubbish_and_Scum_of_Earth
Hilarious.
No saving Islam now…..
AussieDharmic says
There is always a muslim who claims that true Islam isn’t followed. The more true people follow so called true Islam, more scum they become.
gravenimage says
I’m afraid Muslims were this bad from the very beginning.
The “Prophet” Muhammed only considered Muslims “scum and rubbish” if they were not Islamic enough.
revereridesagain says
“Feminists” are the stupidest women on the planet. How does one claim to be for women’s rights while slavishly defending the most vicious, thuggish, violators of those rights on the planet: Muslim males. (Because there are no Muslim “men”.) To say nothing of the mentally enslaved women who enable them.
gravenimage says
I believe in equal rights for women, and I condemn this savagery.
Daniel Triplett says
If Allah is perfect, why does he give every girl an organ that must be excised?
Gentlemen prioritize the woman’s intimate pleasure, but Muslim men demand their women have none. Absolutely demonic and disgusting.
Walter Sieruk says
This cruel, brutal and vicious Islamic tradition of female butchery which some Muslims so inappropriately call “female circumcision’ has spread like an infectious disease , or a plague , even to Western nations 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
Yes–and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was herself mutilated as a child, has written about this devastating experience. Things were even worse for her sister, who had complications from this butchery her entire life.
Laura says
The (in) famous feminist Germaine Greer, on the subject of FGM said, “one man’s mutilation, is another man’s beautification.” How I hate that witch!
Giacomo Latta says
An intellectual knows what is good for the unwashed, and she need not consult them for their opinion on any matter affecting them.
gravenimage says
True, Laura–*just disgusting*.
gravenimage says
India: In a dingy gully of progressive Mumbai, Bohra Muslims are removing the clitorises of little girls
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Just repulsive–and this is not the first time I have heard of these atrocities. Why doesn’t civilized India crack down on these child abusers?
Khushi says
No one dares to take on the muslims in India. And the “liberal elites” (who are neither liberal in the true sense, nor elite in their thinking) always side with the muslims, so no govt would dare take up this cause. PM Modi’s govt took up the cause of triple talaq to better the lives of muslim women, but faced so much flak for being “anti-muslim”.
gravenimage says
Yes–even under Modi little if being done.
Westman says
Muslims eclipse the redneck joke of, “A woman is no trouble if you keep her pregnant in the summer and barefoot in the winter”, by an insurmountable margin with the reality of abusing little girls in the name of religion.
Isa said it would be better for those who offend the little children to be drowned in the sea. What, do you Imagine, is waiting for them instead of imbecile virgins?
GOLDMANN says
” Isa”???! who’s that .some of the verses quoted are from the BIBLE KJV✝.? Mr Westman.