Feminists: the most dangerous people to young islamic girls and women.

Female genital mutilation(FGM)is a horrible, barbaric procedure that is supposed to protect young girls and women from having sexual desires. That the western feminists stay silent about this stone age 'surgery' is disgusting and there is no excuse for feminists not to make this one of their main goals, the exposure and elimination of this horrific crime against the most helpless females that live under islam, the qur'an and hadith. This is from Dr. Thomas Ahmed.


The fact is that FGM is an Islamic religious obligation on every Muslim female and is based on the following authentic hadiths of the prophet Muhammad,


“Umm Atiyya al-Ansarite narrated that a woman used to circumcise in Medina, and the prophet said to her, ‘Do not overdo it, because this makes woman more favourable and it is more agreeable for the husband” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Libas 63, 64, Isti’dsan 51; Muslim, quoted in Tahara 49, Shaltut, Khitan al-untha, in Liwa’ al-Islam, 1951: 55).


“A’isha narrated another authentic hadith that the prophet Muhammad said: When a man sits between the four parts (arms and legs of his wife) and the two circumcised parts meet, then ghusl is obligatory" (Sahih Muslim, hadith no. 349).


“The prophet Muhammad said, Circumcision is a sunna for men and a preservation of honour for women” (Hadith of Abu al-Malik and Abu Dawud).

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How Female Genital Mutilation is done to Muslim Female Children!?
Dr. Thomas Ahmed


When she was in Canada Inaas learned about Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting. She knew it was a required religious obligation and backed by some authentic hadiths of the prophet Muhammad. “Umm Atiyya al-Ansarite narrated that a woman used to circumcise in Medina, and the prophet said to her, ‘Do not overdo it, because this makes woman more favourable and it is more agreeable for the husband” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Libas 63, 64, Isti’dsan 51; Muslim, quoted in Tahara 49, Shaltut, Khitan al-untha, in Liwa’ al-Islam, 1951: 55). “A’isha narrated another authentic hadith that the prophet Muhammad said: ‘When a man sits between the four parts (arms and legs of his wife) and the two circumcised parts meet, then ghusl is obligatory" (Sahih Muslim, hadith no. 349). Yet, in another hadith, “The prophet Muhammad said, Circumcision is a sunna for men and a preservation of honour for women” (Hadith of Abu al-Malik and Abu Dawud).

Following the commandment of the prophet Muhammad, Muslims circumcise their girls so that they could preserve the honour of the family. Every Muslim girl would be circumcised at the age of four or five. “Female genital mutilation or cutting ‘involves the removal or the sealing of the labia majora and the labia minora together after the entire clitoris has been removed’ (Lois 1985: 115,).

When the Muslim girl under goes the female genital mutilation she would become abnormal. Her vagina would be so narrowed or so sealed that it would be reduced to a small hole that allows only the girl to urinate. The woman who performed the circumcision would use a reed that little bigger than a needle and smaller than a nail to measure the hole that should be left open after the circumcision. That hole would be a little bigger than an eye of a needle. Therefore, when the girl reached the age of adolescence she would not be able to practice sex even if she wanted to do so. The circumcised girl would experience unbearable pain as if she was being raped and that would prevent her from having sex before marriage. She would not be able even to practice masturbation. Therefore, female genital mutilation or circumcision was meant to control the sexuality of the woman and destroy her desire for the opposite sex. It is barbaric, painful, and harms the woman.

Nevertheless, what troubled Inaas was the primitive and cruel way that operation was performed by a woman who had nothing to do with medical knowledge and surgeon’s experience. As part of her field work Inaas forced herself to attend that barbaric practice. "The woman subjected the four years old girl to the most brutal operation I ever experienced in my life. The little girl was tied with ropes hands and legs. Then, her mother carried her and taken her to a dark room lighted with a dim local lamp. There was a woman who was known as the midwife whose duty was to help women deliver their babies. That woman had never been to school in all her life. The little girl did not know what they were going to do to her. Most probably she thought they wanted to squeeze a baby out of my stomach. After that her mother removed the ropes from her legs and forced her to lie on her back. The little child began to scream. Her fear was intensified when she saw the midwife holding a razor in her hand. Her mother closed her mouth to stop her screaming. The child was so terrified that she thought the woman was going to slice her throat with the razor. However, the neighbours Haja Sakinah and Salwa who happened to be there with us were asked by the mother to help. Each one of them held one leg of the child and spread it as far as she could. The child could not scream because her mother was putting her two hands on her mouth. Then, the midwife began to examine or fondle the private parts of the child. She used wet cloths to clean up the vagina of the child. Those clothes were soaked into normal hot water. She did not use any freezing or apply anything else except water. The midwife used a razor to carry out that cruel operation. Then, she began to cut off the child’s clitoris and slice her labia majora and labia minora. Although three grown up women were holding that child still the terrible pain made the child to struggle for relief and release from that unbearable pain. Then, the midwife used a reed to measure the hole that should be left open after the operation was over. The pain increased to an unbearable state when the woman began to seal the two sliced parts together. The blood was gushing out of the child’s privates like water. Both hands of the midwife were smeared with blood. Even the blood reached the clothes of the mother, Haja Sakinah, and Salwa. The child fainted before the stitching of her two labas was completed. Inaas always shuddered and got very terrified whenever she remembered that primitive, barbaric, and painful operation".

After witnessing that inhumane operation Inaas had decided to return to her country and forget about doing any further field work among those backward and primitive people. However, in a second thought she restrained her emotions and stayed behind. She knew that if she ran away and escaped from those horrifying experiences she would abandon those poor female children and those victimized women. She felt it was her duty and divine calling to witness those evil practices and later on expose them and let the entire world know about them. After witnessing that cruel and evil operation Inaas wondered why the feminists in the West do not speak or condemn such evil practices. Why the Muslim feminists always try to deny and hide those practices and claim falsely they have nothing to do with Islam? The Muslim feminists do not care about those practices because they are not done to them or to their female children as they live in the West and protect by the Western laws and because they don’t want to be accuse of following a religion that justifies and sanctions polygamy and female genital mutilation. They fool the people in the West by arguing that everything that is not mentioned in the Qur’an cannot be accepted as authentic teachings of Islam. However, this kind of fallacious argument perpetuates those evil practices which are always part and parcel of the authentic teachings of the prophet Muhammad. From the very beginning Islam had not and would never be only based on the teachings of the Qur‘an. As a matter of fact, the majority of the teachings of Islam on women are found in the hadiths rather than the Qur’an. Inaas understood that the feminists are the most dangerous people to those Muslim children and women who experience those evil practices in their Muslim countries.

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Female Genital Mutilation or 'circumcision' has approval of American Association of Pediatrics

Update 5/27/2010:  Pediatricians now reject all female genital cutting - The American Academy of Pediatrics has rescinded a controversial policy statement raising the idea that doctors in some communities should be able to substitute demands for female genital cutting with a harmless clitoral "pricking" procedure. full story

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This is a procedure that I thought I would NEVER read or hear deemed allowable in the United States, ever! Thinking they can prevent a worse gender mutilation by having it done Stateside, the American Association of Pediatrics has given it's approval to allow this barbaric procedure. If there was every a case of twisted pretzel logic, then this one qualifies for that.

New York Times; In a controversial change to a longstanding policy concerning the practice of female circumcision in some African and Asian cultures, the American Academy of Pediatrics is suggesting that American doctors be given permission to perform a ceremonial pinprick or “nick” on girls from these cultures if it would keep their families from sending them overseas for the full circumcision.

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Times Topic: Female Genital MutilationThe academy’s committee on bioethics, in a policy statement last week, said some pediatricians had suggested that current federal law, which “makes criminal any nonmedical procedure performed on the genitals” of a girl in the United States, has had the unintended consequence of driving some families to take their daughters to other countries to undergo mutilation.

“It might be more effective if federal and state laws enabled pediatricians to reach out to families by offering a ritual nick as a possible compromise to avoid greater harm,” the group said.

But some opponents of female genital mutilation, or F.G.M., denounced the statement.

“I am sure the academy had only good intentions, but what their recommendation has done is only create confusion about whether F.G.M. is acceptable in any form, and it is the wrong step forward on how best to protect young women and girls,” said Representative Joseph Crowley, Democrat of New York, who recently introduced a bill to toughen federal law by making it a crime to take a girl overseas to be circumcised. “F.G.M. serves no medical purpose, and it is rightfully banned in the U.S.”

Georganne Chapin, executive director of an advocacy group called Intact America, said she was “astonished that a group of intelligent people did not see the utter slippery slope that we put physicians on” with the new policy statement. “How much blood will parents be satisfied with?”

She added: “There are countries in the world that allow wife beating, slavery and child abuse, but we don’t allow people to practice those customs in this country. We don’t let people have slavery a little bit because they’re going to do it anyway, or beat their wives a little bit because they’re going to do it anyway.”

A member of the academy’s bioethics committee, Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross, associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, said the panel’s intent was to issue a “statement on safety in a culturally sensitive context.”

Dr. Friedman Ross said that the committee members “oppose all types of female genital cutting that impose risks or physical or psychological harm,” and consider the ritual nick “a last resort,” but that the nick is “supposed to be as benign as getting a girl’s ears pierced. It’s taking a pin and creating a drop of blood.”

She said the panel had heard anecdotes from worried doctors.

“If we just told parents, ‘No, this is wrong,’ our concern is they may take their daughters back to their home countries, where the procedure may be more extensive cutting and may even be done without anesthesia, with unsterilized knives or even glass,” she said. “A just-say-no policy may end up alienating these families, who are going to then find an alternative that will do more harm than good.”

Currently, more than 130 million women and girls worldwide have undergone female genital cutting, according to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. It is mostly performed on girls younger than 15 in countries including Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia. Consequences can include severe complications with pregnancy, childbirth and sexual dysfunction.

The academy’s statement acknowledged that opponents of the procedure, “including women from African countries, strongly oppose any compromise that would legitimize even the most minimal procedure.”

Dr. Friedman Ross said, “If you medicalize it and say it’s permissible, is there a possibility that some people will misunderstand it and go beyond a nick? Yes.”

But she said the risk that people denied the ceremonial procedure, usually on the clitoris, would opt for the more harmful one was much more dangerous.

And the statement said that, “in some countries where FGC is common, some progress toward eradication or amelioration has been made by substituting ritual ‘nicks’ for more severe forms.”

How about adultery within Islam?

There is nothing fair about how Islam, the Qur'an, Hadith say about adultery. The cards are stacked against women and it is not just with adultery but all of shariah law and Islam that is extremely unfair to women. Women are mere possesions for the males of Islam, often times reduced to slaves and third class people, at best. A woman's word is not equal to man's nor is she worth as much, or get as much in any divorce settlement. This is the latest from Traveler.

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ADULTERY AND ISLAM
By Traveler

♦ Under Islamic law, rape can only be proven if the rapist confesses or if there are four male witnesses. Women who allege rape, without the benefit of the act having been witnessed by four men who subsequently develop a conscience, are actually confessing to having sex. If they or the accused happens to be married, then it is considered to be adultery.

♦ The Qur'an:

Qur'an (2:282) - Establishes that a woman's testimony is worth only half that of a man's in court (there is no "he said/she said" gridlock in Islam).

Qur'an (24:4) - "And those who accuse free women then do not bring four witnesses (to adultery), flog them..."

Qur'an (24:13) - "Why did they not bring four witnesses of it? But as they have not brought witnesses they are liars before Allah."

♦ From the Hadith:

Bukhari (5:59:462) - The background for the Qur'anic requirement of four witnesses to adultery. Muhammad's favorite wife, Aisha, was accused of cheating [on her polygamous husband]. Three witnesses corroborated the event, but Muhammad did not want to believe it, and so established the arbitrary rule that four witnesses are required.

♦ Rape is virtually impossible to prove under Islamic law (Sharia) and even in more moderate countries. If the man claims that the act was consensual sex, there is very little that the woman can do to refute this. Islam places the burden of avoiding sexual encounters of any sort on the woman.
♦ A few of the many many cases of Sharia in action, applied to adultery.

♦ Afghanistan: (March 1996) Some strict interpretations of Islamic law calls for the death penalty for any woman found in the company of a man other than a close family member. Sexual activity is assumed to have happened.

A woman, Jamila, was found guilty of trying to leave the country with such a man. She was caught and stoned to death on 28th March 1996

♦ Afghanistan: (November 2006): Under the Taliban regime, a woman, Nurbibi, 40, and a man Turylai, 38, were stoned to death in a public assembly using palm-sized stones. They were found guilty of non-marital sex.

Turylai was dead within ten minutes, but Nurbibi had to be finished off by dropping a large rock on her head.

Mr. Wali, head of the Office for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prohibition of Vice expressed satisfaction with the execution: "...I am very happy, because it means that the rule of Islam is being implemented." These executions (as well as hand amputations for convicted thieves) are regarded as religious occasions and are not normally viewed by non-Muslims.

♦ United Arab Emirates: (February 2000): Kartini Karim, an unmarried citizen of Indonesia, was working as a housemaid in the United Arab Emirates when her pregnancy was detected. She and a man from of India were charged with adultery.

She was convicted; he fled the country before he could be arrested. She was placed on trial without a lawyer or a translator, "...alone and equipped with barely any word of the local language,". She was not told that she had a right to communicate with her embassy. Her embassy was not informed in advance of the trial.

She was sentenced to death by stoning. The Indonesian government hired a lawyer and translator to appeal her case. On APR-25 2000, the appeals court reduced her sentence to one year in prison, followed by deportation.

♦ United Arab Emirates: (August 2000): A woman, "Amina Abdullahi is sentenced to 100 lashes in the state of Zamfara for having premarital sex."

♦ United Arab Emirates: (November 2000): Attine Tanko, 18, is found guilty of having pre-marital sex out of wedlock. She was discovered to be pregnant. Her sentence of 100 lashes was deferred for up to two years after the birth, so that she could breastfeed her baby. Her boyfriend, 23, was flogged 100 times and given jail time.

♦ Nigeria: (September 2001): A teenage single mother, Bariya Magazu claimed at trial that she was raped by three men. The court assumed that she was guilty, because she could not prove that her father pressured her to engage in sexual activity with the men.

She was found guilty of two offenses: having pre-marital sex, and bringing false charges against the men that she claimed were responsible. Her sentence was 180 lashes.

♦ Nigeria: (October 2001): Safiya Hussaini, a 30-year-old pregnant woman, had asked a Sharia court in Sokoto state to force a man that she alleged had raped her, to pay for her daughter's naming ceremony. The court refused, and then charged her with engaging in sexual intercourse outside of marriage.

She was sentenced to be stoned to death. The man that she allegedly had sex with was freed by the court for lack of evidence.

She had not been given any legal representation, and the court had failed to establish the basic facts of the case.

♦ Sudan: (December 2001): An 18 year-old pregnant woman, Alfa Akok, was accused by her husband of adultery. She claimed that she had been raped.
The man co-accused with Abok was not tried due to lack of evidence.

In Sudan, a married person found guilty of adultery is executed by stoning; an unmarried person receives 100 lashes. She had no lawyer, and was unaware of her rights during the trial.

The Court of Appeal in Southern Darfur overturned the death sentence and sent the case back to the lawyer court which set punishment at 75 lashes. By immediately executing the sentence, she was denied her right to obtain legal advice and/or an launch an appeal prior to the beating.

♦Nigeria: (March 2002): Safiya Hussaini, 33, was convicted of adultery. She was sentenced to be buried up to her neck in sand and to be stoned to death. However, her sentence was deferred until her 13-month-old daughter has finished nursing.

She appealed her conviction. Her cousin, a Mr. Abubakar allegedly confessed to police that he had sex with her three times. However, the judge dismissed the testimony of the three policemen who witnessed Abubakar's confession, because a minimum of four witnesses are required under Sharia law.

Hussaini's lawyers claimed that she also could not be convicted because of the four witness rule. The prosecution argued that witnesses were not required in her case; adultery had obviously taken place because she had become pregnant.

Mansur Ibrahim Said, Dean of the Law Faculty at Dakar University in Sokoto said that adultery is "an abomination abhorred by God and society because of the example it gives and because it creates bastards to be rejected by society."

The appeals court later reversed the lower court conviction. They ruled that the alleged act had taken place before Sharia law was activated in the province, and adultery became a criminal offence.

There was strong international interest in her case. The European Union, the parliament of Italy and many non-governmental organizations successfully appealed for Safiya to be spared.

♦ Nigeria: (March 2002): A woman, Amina Kurami, from village of Kurami was sentenced to death for adultery. The sentence was delayed for eight months until she has finished breast feeding her infant.

She appealed the conviction, on the basis that the offence occurred before Sharia law came into effect. The appeal was rejected by the Islamic High Court. Dozens of spectators cheered and shouted "God is great".
Her case was eventually dismissed.

♦ Nigeria: (April 2002): A 19 year old woman, Adama Unusua was sentenced to 100 lashes court, for engaging in sexual intercourse with her fiancé. She was pregnant at the time of the trial.

♦Nigeria: (June 2002): A man, Yunusa Chiwaya was convicted of adultery and was sentenced to be stoned to death.

He had confessed to engaging in sexual activities with his neighbor's wife, and had declined multiple opportunities to withdraw his confession.

The woman in the case was cleared after she swore on the Qur'an that she had been hypnotized before she left home with him.

♦ Pakistan: (Present Day).In the overflowing womens prisons, 75-80 percent of the women are there for life for the crime of..being raped !!

Is Sharia Law what we want for our Countries ??