[ April 24, 2024 ]
Where are the Muslim groups calling for the banning of clitoridectomies under Islam? Where are CAIR, ICNA, ISNA, MSA, MAS? Their silence is approval of the practice. Where are the Muslim protests against this savage, misogynistic form of torture?
It is epidemic in Muslim communities. And yet despite the high number of cases and the fact that it is a crime, nobody has yet been prosecuted for the practice.
FGM — PAINFUL, BARBARIC AND SOMETIMES DEADLY
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- Female
genital mutilation, or FGM, is a common practice among some Muslim
communities across the middle of Africa, including Somalia, Eritrea,
North Sudan and central Mali. - It is also present in Muslim communities in Indonesia, Oman, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates, among others.
- The operation involves cutting or removing female sexual tissue. It can also involve stitching using silk thread or catgut.
- The
process is supposed to cleanse the woman of sexual impurity and victims
can spend up to 40 days bound from the waist down while healing. - The
operation is usually performed on children or young girls before
entering adolescence, though ages vary from community to community. - Risks include infection, pain, sterility,
and death due to blood loss. - Due to the nature of the wounds, problems can occur later during childbirth.
- While the practice has been illegal in the UK since 1985, there have so
far been no prosecutions due in part to victim’s reluctance to come
forward, and also because some women do not recognise it as a crime. - The practice is also specifically outlawed in Belgium, Sweden and some US states.
More than 1,500 women victims of genital mutiliation [sic] in shock statistics compiled by ONE hospital… and most are from Somalia By the Daily Mail, September 18, 2013 (thanks to Atlas readers who sent this in)
- The barbaric practice is most common in Muslim areas of Africa
- However at least 11 of the victims were born in Britain
- The practice is illegal in the UK but there have been no prosecutions
More than 1,500 new cases of female genital mutilation have been revealed by a single London maternity unit and staff admit that other cases could have ‘slipped through the net.’
St George’s hospital in Tooting has treated nearly 200 women a year since it started keeping records on the violent practice.
While most of the 1,546 victims treated in the hospital’s specialist unit were born in Somalia, disturbing statistics show that at least 11 were born in the UK, where genital mutilation has been a crime since 1985.
Rudimentary tools are often used to perform the operations, like these
found in Kenya (pictured left). The procedure is often performed on
young girls like nine-year-old Fay Mohammed (pictured right).
Others were from Nigeria or Eritrea where the practice is common among some Muslim communities.
Campaigners described the statistics as ‘horrifying’ while staff at the hospital said it shows the tribal practice remains relatively common.
Karen Lewis, a midwife at St George’s, warned that some staff were fearful of getting involved because they saw the backstreet operations as a cultural issue, rather than abuse.
She said: ‘The women we see have often faced years of pain and suffer flashbacks and other psychological problems. Some of them are also terrified of childbirth because of what’s happened to them in the past.’
Some of them also don’t realise that FGM is wrong and are quite horrified when we tell them.
‘So we need to do much more to raise awareness and have a big educational campaign to stop it happening to more girls in the future.’
Battersea MP Jane Ellison, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on female genital mutilation, said: ‘Many of these women are suffering the chronic health problems associated with FGM.
‘Yet again we are shown that there is a big problem to which our health and other public services must respond.’
Despite the high number of cases – 80 so far this year – nobody has yet been prosecuted for the practice.
The Crown Prosecution Service says it is studying five case files passed on by the Metropolitan Police.
Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has said it is only a matter of time before somebody is prosecuted but efforts are being hampered by victim’s unwillingness to come forward.
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14 Comments
10 years ago
UK? They do it Minneapolis and Tennessee.
10 years ago
just one more way for spencer/geller to demonize muslims..of course they know this practice is from africans who brought it with them into islam…but they have an agenda same as those who demonized jews before wwll in germany/europe…the result was the horrific holocaust..now these heirs to the holocaust victims hope to demonize muslims to the extant that a new holocaust will be aimed at muslims in europe/russia/australia and the usa….despicable
10 years ago
its an african ritual not islamic…but oral circumcision is in the talmud….old rabbis putting baby pee pees in their mouths…nyc has banned the practice….but jews are trying to overturn this ban….support banoralcircumcisionnyc,com….bus ads forthcoming
10 years ago
Child bride in Yemen dies of internal bleeding on wedding night: activist
SANAA (Reuters)
An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a social activist and two local residents said, in a case that has caused an outcry in the media and revived debate about child brides. Arwa Othman, head of Yemen House of Folklore and a leading rights campaigner, said the girl, identified only as Rawan, was married to a 40-year-old man late last week in the town of Meedi in Hajjah province in northwestern Yemen…
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10 years ago
The left hand side of that picture looks like the typical tools in a British NHS socialized medicine hospital. You americans have it all to look forward to under Barrycare…
10 years ago
Ah yes, the religion of peace! Where men are men and women are cattle.
10 years ago
#crossyourlegsandscream
(Even though I’m a guy.)
10 years ago
You would think the mothers -grandmothers and the women of these cultures would eventually come to realise this is so wrong and resist this being done to their children -no -they – by allowing this mutilation are the ones responsible for this sadistic ritual on these poor little girls -why ?because it was done to them -and so it continues -only the women can put an end to this cruelty-perhaps if the ones that are abused- once they became adults and realise the terrible injustice done to them took their -abusers to court and charged them with -mutilating them it might gradually die out.-so primitive and cruel.
10 years ago
As for the subject of FGM in the book THE POLITICALLY GUIDE TO ISLAM by Robert Spencer on pages 76,77 it informs the reader that “An Islamic legal manual states that circumcision is required ‘for both men and women.’ To Shiek Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the grand sheik of al- Azhar female circumcision is ‘a lauddble practice that does honor to women.’ As the grand imams of Al-Azhar stated that this practice is ‘the highest spiritual authoriry for nealy a billion Sunni Muslims.'” That’s some far-ourt statement that exposes a warped and brutial mindset. That this cruel and heinous prictice of female circumcision does “honor to women.” Such a strange and vicious view of FGM is the result of the malicious and hideous religion of Islam. Islam is full of misogyny.
10 years ago
You know the dumb thug obama has mixed feelings about this, not matter what kind of bullshit he spouts for public consumption.
10 years ago
The Barbarian Muslims need to be “Locked Up” and the Key Thrown away… They will Burn In Hell For Their Peaceful Belief.
10 years ago
This is a cherished woman’s right as out lined in the parks department video, in praise of Islamist contribution to women’s rights. Of course, ancient tribal costums and stories were incorporated into Judaism, Christianity and Islam. What is appalling is that the practice is continuing and is widely recommended. Islam never had a reformation. It is tied to brutal practices and jihad. It is a religion that was formed to serve a conquerer and it is wrecking havoc across the globe, because salvation is obtained by supporting or doing jihad. Other than that,maiming little girls is just another practice progressive feminists can abide in the pursuit of multiculturism,
10 years ago
this proves that muslim are stil barbarians
10 years ago
Zero convictions in Britain. You get picked up for a twitter against it. Hitler would be proud.
