We are constantly told the opposite by propagandists in the West, but the reality is that female genital mutilation (FGM) is justified in Islamic law. It is practiced by some non-Muslims, but only in majority-Muslim areas where the influence of Islamic culture, mores and law is all-pervasive.
“It is a religious thing. Do you want to change religion?” said one Egyptian in response to a campaign to eradicate female genital mutilation. “You only listen to what the West is saying.”
The establishment media ignores the fact that 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, in the United States and everywhere else.
“Muslim ER doctor charged with female genital mutilation of nine girls aged just seven ‘was part of secret network which traveled across US to perform agonizing procedure,’ Detroit court hears,” by Brian Stieglitz, DailyMail.com, September 16, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
A Muslim doctor on trial for allegedly performing genital mutilation on nine girls, all seven years-old, was also part of a secret network of physicians who traveled across the country performing the brutal procedure, according to federal prosecutors.
Dr. Jumana Nagarwala was cleared of female genital mutilation charges in November 2018 during the nation’s first-of-its-kind case, when a federal judge ruled that a law banning the practice was unconstitutional.
But the Michigan doctor still faces an obstruction charge for allegedly hiding information during the trial, and was back in court Thursday. That saw prosecutors reveal that doctors in California and Illinois were also cutting young girls as part of a religious rite in the esoteric Indian Muslim sect, Dawoodi Bohras, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Nagarwala was initially charged with mutilation, conspiracy and obstruction along with Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, who allowed her to perform the surgeries at his clinic in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
The same charges were brought against Attar’s wife, Farida, and a woman named Tahera Shafiq, who assisted in the procedure, as well as four women who tricked their daughters into going to the suburban clinic to undergo the practice for religious purposes.
US District Judge Bernard Friedman dismissed all but one obstruction charge against Nagarwala, Attar, his wife Farida and Shafiq in November 2018. He declared a 1996 federal law banning the practice unconstitutional and concluded that it’s up to the states to regulate female genital mutilation.
The obstruction trial was underway until the coronavirus pandemic hit and brought it to a halt. Then, in March, prosecutors issued a superseding indictment with five new charges, including conspiracy to make false statements and witness tampering, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Prosecutors argue that that Nagarwala and her three cohorts lied to the FBI about the mutilations that they were performing and intimidated others in their community to lie if the FBI interviewed them about it.
The four defendants requested Thursday’s hearing to dismiss the case altogether, arguing that the prosecutors were only pursuing the new charges out of retaliation.
‘The government is acting with extreme prosecutorial vindictiveness in issuing yet another superseding indictment nearly half a decade after charges were first issued,’ the defense argued in court filings, seen by the Detroit Free Press, adding that the new charges are ‘retaliation for the defense successfully decimating the government’s case.’
Friedman said Thursday that he would take their arguments into consideration, but was still reviewing the new indictment and would make a decision at a later date.
Nagarwala, who is an emergency room doctor at Henry Ford Health System, was arrested in April 2017 after two young girls accused her of performing the mutilation procedures on them earlier that year.
She denied the allegations and claimed she was performing a religious practice for families in the Muslim sect, Dawoodi Bohras, and that it only involved scraping the membrane of the girls’ genitalia as part of the religious custom.
But doctors’ reports obtained by the Detroit Free Press indicate the children suffered more severe injuries including scarring, a small tear, lacerations and what appeared to be the surgical removal of a portion of genitalia….
PMK says
I have to wonder if there are medical records for each of these victims. If this was a secret network, are the medical doctors who treat these girls post-operatively able to access records of what was done. At some point the operation must be reversed for the women to have children. Will information be available to those who must operate on these girls later?
The AMA has come out against FGM by any physician or licensed practitioner in the US. Even if the law banning FGM is unconstitutional, can’t these women lose their licenses or be otherwise sanctioned?
https://zontausa.org/expansion-of-ama-policy-on-female-genital-mutilation-h-525-980/
gravenimage says
Mutilated women can still have children–even though in the case of Type III FGM they have to be cut open with a knife to have intercourse.
And FGM can never really be reversed–not completely. The clitoris can never be restored.
bill says
I wonder where this obsession with cutting bits off people began. After all is not god’s/allah’s
creation perfect. If not why call him ‘god? as Epicurus said.
Also cutting off hands and feet is religiously permitted in Islam so have we to allow that also?
Is not cutting a child’s genitals against her will when she is not old enough to give consent child abuse?
Jim says
The freedom of religion is not a affirmative defense for violating the law. All religions in the US are required to practice their religion within the laws, both federal and local. no exceptions.
revereridesagain says
It’s not an affirmative defense for imposing one’s religious views on others, either. Not that this stops anyone who believes they have “The Truth”.
gravenimage says
So true, Jim.
Linda says
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Wellington says
Again demonstrating there is no upside to Muslims in a Western nation.
The West if Muslim-free (minus some necessary diplomatic personnel and losers who convert to Islam) would still have many problems but a major problem would no longer exist.
The great burden to the West continues. The great burden is Islam in Western nations. Islam is the proto-type for Nazism in so many ways, a detestation of freedom is one of them, a willingness to use Western freedom to destroy Western freedom another, and the overall desire to destroy traditional Western Civilization yet one more.
The puzzle of it all is that more can’t see this by now. But they can’t—or won’t.
mortimer says
Exactly, there is no upside. No matter what their personal talents or accomplishments, Muslims bring the baggage of supremacism, misogyny, obscurantism, terrorism, taqiyya and backwardness. All of that outbalances any positives. We end up with a host of problems we don’t want and we shouldn’t have to put with those problems. As long as there is Islam, those problems won’t disappear.
Linda says
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Rufluc says
When the Nazis performed their torturous acts, they were despised for it. We even went to war against them so as to stop them. But it seems all they needed to do to make it acceptable to everyone, is claim that it was their ‘religious’ right to act in such a barbaric way, if today’s ruling is anything to go by.
Do you think that would have then put the world to right? Do you think that everyone would have been made happy by that? Of course it wouldn’t! So why in 2021 do we accept Muslim barbarity in the West like FGM just because they say it’s their ‘religious’ right?
If it was their ‘religious right’ to murder someone, would that be acceptable? Because if something isn’t done soon about this barbaric cult, that is where we’re heading.
Since when is any barbaric act a constitutional right?? Or does it now ONLY apply to the Muslim cult called Islam?
gravenimage says
Yes–this ruling was grotesque.
David says
Rufluc, muslims claim it is their religious right to murder people. After all it is in their ‘holy’ book.
The big question is, why do people defend islam?
Raja says
Is it vote bank politics?
Chuck says
The only language Islam understands is violence. We have to fight fire with fire. If we don’t we as the US and the West will be consumed.
Christopher Watson says
The laws of the United States must be even more strange than I thought. How can a judge allow a doctor, if that is what she is, to mutilate a 7-year old girl? Don’t you have any laws in the USA?
gravenimage says
This ruling was un-American.
Jim says
yes, we have a federal law prohibiting FGM, however, the actor uses religion as a right to preform this act and the Government excuses it under that defense.
gravenimage says
With the passage of the federal law ban, the Female Genital Mutilation Act, in 1996, performing FGM on anyone under age 18 became a felony in the United States. However, in 2018, the act was stuck down as unconstitutional by US federal district judge Bernard A. Friedman in Michigan, who argued that the federal government did not have authority to enact legislation outside the “Interstate commerce” clause…
In 2021, the STOP FGM Act of 2020 was signed into law, and it gives federal authorities the power to prosecute those who carry out or conspire to carry out FGM, as well as increasing the maximum prison sentence from five to ten years. It also requires government agencies to report to Congress about the estimated number of females who are at risk of or have had FGM, and on efforts to prevent FGM…
As of September 2020, 39 U.S. states have made specific laws that prohibit FGM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation_in_the_United_States
One of those states is Michigan:
https://www.equalitynow.org/us_laws_against_fgm_state_by_state
somehistory says
Friedman is as guilty of sexual abuse of a child, children, as these awful, female maggots…the mothers who deceived their daughters and the so-called “doctors” who perpetrated the attack on the little girls.
He declared the law “unconstitutional” and allowed these maggots to continue as they pleased. Just how is a law that protects children for such as this against the Constitution?
And, the virus that shut down the courts is being used by these vermin to make the claim that the prosecutors are being vindictive because time has passed since the judge made his stupid blunder in their favor. Of course, that doesn’t change the fact that they did break the laws according to the charges. Their argument about the prosecutors being out to get them out of spite should be dismissed as arrogant and stupid.
Other people with differing religious beliefs have had their children removed from their care due to their religious practices that the courts rule are not in the child’s best interest. Including ones who don’t want doctors doing things to their children.
I have a friend whose son became ill and the doctors decided that a blood transfusion would be the best treatment. The son was old enough to tell the doctors he didn’t want it and the father said it was against his religious belief. He wanted the doctors to consider blood volume expanders that he knew had worked for others.
The child’s doctors went to court and the judge ruled that the blood transfusion would take place, as it was in his mind and the doctors, to be in the child’s best interest. Even though it was against the religious belief and practices of this man and his son, the doctors could act on their own belief.
So, here we have two children telling of the ‘cutting,’ the mutilation, the abuse and the judge decides that it is against the law to prosecute these vermin who hurt these little girls and others.
What goes around comes around. There is a Judge Who will take these matters into His Holy Court and Justice will be done. His Holy Son spoke of what would happen to those who hurt little children.
And I have to add: that maggot face makes me need to vomit. Too bad it wouldn’t reach her. May our Creator act soon to bring Justice for these children.
Walter Sieruk says
That a quack doctor . A genuine medical doctor would take seriously the vow that he or she took which is to “Do no harm.”
somehistory says
I say, what about the “commerce clause”? If these maggots were crossing state lines in order to ‘do business,’ then why couldn’t the Fed prosecutors use that law against them?
They could “regulate” it right out of existence.
And anyone going to the ER should refuse to allow her to touch them.
gravenimage says
Michigan: Muslim doctor charged with female genital mutilation part of ‘secret network’ performing procedure in US
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Just horrifying. And even more alarming is the American judge who ruled that banning the mutilation of little girls is unconstitutional.
gregbeetham says
How could ruling against mutilation and torture be unconstitutional? Surely there’s a clause in the constitution that a judge could apply in cases of primitive savagery such as these?
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
First do no harm (to Islam).
John says
I’m sure these young female victims all signed valid pre-operative consents before this most savage and heinous illegal and horrendous procedure was performed? Much less to be found will be any preoperative history and physical or operative procedure note for any of these sick crimes.
somehistory says
I have been thinking…involuntarily…about the maggot saying she “scraped,”…
If someone “scraped” the back of a finger, or the tender skin of the lips, or anywhere on the face of a child…enough to make it bleed, or to cause scarring, that person could be charged with child abuse.
This thing just makes me sick inside. If only there was something I could do to help these children.
Can’t go and assault this beast who calls herself a doctor, or the other maggots who helped her…so I’m going to pray hard for God to do what He Wills.
Now, I have to force myself to think of other things and let God handle it.
Kashyap says
These Muslims who are inhuman & shame on civilized human beings are supported/ tolerated/ protected by many western world civilizations What is tragic is if one such beast is dealt with “human rights are cited to support the Inhumans. How can an inhuman claim human rights…
Ade Fegan says
Free pass in the UK always .. unless your not a Muslim
So either the “authorities” know dam well that it’s an islamic thing
OR it’s the all too familiar scenario of a free pass for muslims
Or maybe a bit of both
gravenimage says
This happened in the US, but I take your point.
tgusa says
Put it away forever as it will only do it again. If indeed allah is perfect all knowing what in Gods name is this all about? This procedure has to be one of the most disgusting things I could think of. Can we, as a modern society, allow this in any form? If so, i am ashamed to be an American.
OLD GUY says
I can think of one thing worth an abortion of an unborn child. Once enough muslims enter America the far left liberals will find away to allow this under our legal system also. Hell it is probably consider a crime under $1000.00 dollars and so you automatically get to walk.
David says
Rufluc, muslims claim it is their religious right to murder people. After all it is in their ‘holy’ book.
The big question is, why do people defend islam?
gregbeetham says
I’d say people who defend Islam know bugger all about it. They have to find out the hard way.
gravenimage says
Generally this is the case, Greg.
Chuck says
Islam is a threat to the West and the world. We have allowed the exportation of Islam for the last 40 years since 1979. We are now suffering the consequences of our mistakes. We as the West need to pull our heads out of our asses and realize this religion has nothing to do with peace. It’s death, subjugation and submission by any means necessary. We need to WAKE UP!! Laws, rules, and bills can’t stop a religion that at its court roots wants to either remake you like them or kill you trying. WAKE UP!!
Infidel says
Muslim apologists love telling us that FGM is a ‘cultural’ thing restricted to Africa that transcends islam and other non-muslim faiths there. Except that Dr. Jumana Nagarwala is a Dawoodi Bohra, which is a shi’a sect in India. So the claim that it’s ‘cultural’ falls flat on its face
somehistory says
She deserves what happened to Queen Jezebel to happen to her. She’d like it, I’m sure. Her equally evil henchmen/henchfemales could quickly follow.