Female Genital Mutilation: Muhammad's Gift to Womankind

In the West, there is a blanketed prohibition of associating Islam with the barbaric practices that are carried out in Muslim countries (and as is the case more and more often in the West itself).

In fact, you will even find Western (so-called) feminists apologists, who on the one - hand decry the Islamic practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), but demonize any poor soul that makes the connection to Islam.

Even worse, many of the Muslims living in the West pretend that this has nothing to do with Islam.

Now, let us look at the facts:

For example, we know, Muhammad issued a blanket prohibition FOR ALL TIME against:

1) eating pork
2) drinking alcohol. (etc...)

Thus, Muslims do not eat pork or drink alcohol.

Even the Prophet’s dislike for dogs has been translated into these animals becoming unclean in the eyes of believers.

However, HE DID NOT forbid female genital mutilation.

Instead he encouraged his followers not to perform the most radical form of mutilation (infibulation) [– this would be type III in this diagram-] ……telling them in his sunna not to “overdo it.”



Book 41, Number 5251:Narrated Umm Atiyyah al-Ansariyyah:

"…When you circumcise then do not cut severely, since that is better for her and more pleasing to the husband." (Reported by Abu Dawud and Al-Baihaqee and declared Hasan by Shaikh Al-Albani)…”

Also:

"Better for the woman and more pleasing for the husband" and that it is "Better of the face and more pleasing to the husband." (Reported by Al-Baihaqee)

Thus we Muslims have the practice known as “sunna circumcision.”

Today, Muhammad’s statements (sunna) continue to be cited in support of this most Islamic of traditions. According to the Shafi school of Islamic law, which is followed by Somalis (among others), it is an obligation to “circumcise” girls for their own good.


For another look at the previous hadiths, as well as the following quotes, please see the Islamic website “The Muslim Woman.”

At this site, you will find among other things, the JUSTIFICATION (by Muslim WOMEN) of FGM as it practiced on Muslim women. In fact, you will find these Muslim women very much IN FAVOUR of FGM:

"…A further benefit that is apparent for women and more so for their husbands, is that women of hot climates often have a large clitoris which arouses their desires when it rubs against the adjacent clothing.

[..]

It may even grow to such a size that sexual intercourse is not possible. Therefore, circumcision reduces her desires and their effects in the first case, and makes intercourse possible in the second case...”

In Islam, FGM is among the most beneficial procedures a Muslim woman can undergo.

As we can see from another well respected Islamic site: Islam online, where the renowned Muslim scholar and Sheik Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, (who is the "spiritual leader" of the Muslim Brotherhood (the largest Muslim organization in the world with umbrella groups like Hamas and the Council of American Islamic Relations -CAIR) explains why he would personally mutilate the genitals of his daughters:

“…whoever finds it serving the interest of his daughters should do it, and I personally support this under the current circumstances in the modern world…”

Thus, as we know, 97% of Egyptian women (and in some areas 99% of Muslim women) have had their genitals mutilated as stipulated by the Prophet of Islam- Muhammad.


And from the following article, you can see that Muslims stand behind this most Islamic of practices, and wonder how on earth infidels could be upset by the fact a 4 year old girl, while having her clitoris chopped off, and subsequently died is anything other than “…the will of Allah…”…?

[ …Egyptians Stand By Female Circumcision… ]

For any of you that wish to see the work of Islam in maintaining the dignity of Muslim women, please see the link.

(CAUTION: Not for those that are squeamish or offended by the GLORY of Islam).


Those that still are trying to besmirch the good name of Islam with lies, may also be interested in the opinions of the Muslim women themselves (with regards to FGM as practiced in Egypt where 97% of women have undergone this holy Islamic proceedure).

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Partial Transcript:

Female villager:
Circumcision is part of the Sunna of the Prophet.We used to bring a daya, and she would circumcise the children, but when the role of the daya was abolished, we stopped. Now we take our children to the doctor, and he circumcises them.

[..]

Female villager:
Yes. If a girl is not circumcised, she can't stand it.When she is circumcised, she is calm and has self-restraint. The circumcision protects the girl and makes her calm.

[...]

Interviewer:
So you think all women should be circumcised to protect their honor?

Female villager:
The Prophet said that the men go and wage Jihad for a year. He said that girls should be circumcised so they can bear it for a whole year until the men return.

In fact, as with almost all things concerning Islam, it is men that make the decisions for women. As for most Muslims, they cannot see what all the fuss is about, and for most Muslim men "... it's no big deal..."

Women's Rights in Islam: Female Genital Mutilation

Thus, can one really say that Islam and the teachings of the prophet Muhammad really have nothing to do with this practice?

How can one say that Islam doesn't endorse this practice, where the spiritual leader of the largest Islamic organisation on the planet says that it does, the women with mulitlated genitals also say that it does, as does the Muhammad himself?

This is the JUSTICE that Islam provides women.