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 […]
India: Lawyer argues that female genital mutilation “is an essential aspect of Islam”
This is routinely denied in establishment media treatments of female genital mutilation, 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 […]
India: 75% of women in Shi’ite Muslim Dawoodi Bohra sect have undergone genital mutilation
The doctors in Michigan who have been charged with performing FGM are members of the Dawoodi Bohra sect. Before their arrests, the establishment media routinely used to characterize female genital mutilation as an East African cultural practice. Now we see attempts to portray it as being practiced exclusively by members of the Dawoodi Bohra sect. […]
Canada: 80% of Dawoodi Bohra Muslim women have undergone female genital mutilation
This story works hard to give the impression that female genital mutilation is practiced among Muslims only by Dawoodi Bohras, and by Christians and Jews elsewhere. This is a marginal improvement over establishment media stories about FGM before the arrests of the physicians in Michigan; until those arrests, establishment media stories universally claimed that the […]
Michigan: Muslim doctor accused of mutilating genitals of young girls defends procedure as religious practice
This is inconvenient for the establishment media narrative that female genital mutilation is a cultural practice that has nothing to do with Islam. But Jumana Nagarwala is correct: “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 […]