Today is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. As an Iranian women’s rights activist, I condemn FGM & I fully support my sisters who fight with it around the world.
This practice has no medical benefits and is a form of violence against women. #EndFGM pic.twitter.com/pREXsGEggH— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) February 6, 2022
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.
Civilus Defendus says
How can a world stand by mute as its women are maimed, degraded and simplified; their full self-actualization denied them and handing all power and pleasure to their male overlords. ~CD
End Female Genital Mutilation: For women, for daughters, for humanity.
https://civilusdefendus.com/2016/06/16/stop-the-butchery/
tim gallagher says
The fact that such primitive, disgraceful procedures (well, torture really) as FGM still exist in 2022 (or ever did exist – I mean who the hell would come up with such a bizarre and sick idea in the first place)) makes you despair of some sections of the human race. Anyone who defends such barbaric, sadistic crap is a certified knuckle dragging scumbag.
born saturday says
europe is under islamic occupation!!!!
Peter WF says
When is the “International Day of Zero Tolerance for Male Genital Mutilation”?
Am I sure I am missing something?
gravenimage says
Peter, whatever you think of male circumcision, it is not the same as FGM. It it were, then the entire glans of the penis would be removed, not just the foreskin. No one claims that circumcized men are unable to experience sexual pleasure.
Walter Sieruk says
That cruel, brutal and vicious Islamic tradition of female butchery has even entered in to western countries.
That malicious misogynistic practice many 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 !
Aussie Infidel says
Female circumcision (FGM) is mandated in Islamic law – Reliance of the Traveller e4.3. The practice pre-dates Islam and was customary among many Middle-Eastern communities, for one main reason – to control women. These clan-based tribal societies had strict codes of honor – particularly regarding sex and marriage. And the last thing they wanted was a wayward daughter who might bring dishonor on the family with an unwanted pregnancy.
I agree that it is a waste of time trying to convince Muslims in Islamic countries to abandon the practice. Devout Muslims will always follow the Islamic scriptures or the Sharia, In Western countries, there are laws forbidding the practice, but they are not strictly enforced for two main reasons. Firstly, the matter is usually kept within the family, and Western authorities are not sufficiently pro-active to uncover transgressions. Change will only occur when a sufficient number of Muslim women decide to resist the practice in earnest. But given the Islamic blasphemy law, it won’t be easy.
OLD GUY says
OK I agree with the cause, but isn’t the act of having a Zero Tolerance day for female Genital Mutilation Islamophobia? It is great to see a truth about islam being brought to the forefront of the media as should many other truths such as forced child marriages, honor killings, Gang rapes to convert young girls to Islam, now thats disgusting, or how about throwing gays off of tall buildings. With all of these truths about Islamic laws that are inhuman how can any of these be considered Islamophobia?
gravenimage says
Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
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And yet, there has been no prosecution of this mutilation in the West.