Islam’s Hatred of the Clitoris

FrontPage Magazine ^ | Jamie Glazov

[VinnyTex]

Islam’s Hatred of the Clitoris

FrontPageMagazine.com | October 19, 2001

Editor’s Note: The following article contains graphic descriptions of female genital mutilation, which some sensitive readers may wish to avoid.

IF YOU HATE WOMEN, and you hate their sexuality, and you are terrified that you cannot control it, the most effective thing you can do is to mutilate female sexual pleasure. This can be done by a sexual lobotomy, which will destroy an essential and sacred part of a woman’s natural makeup. In achieving this feat on all women, you will become able to ruthlessly dominate them.

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That’s what female circumcision is all about.

It’s about obliterating the clitoris, or the entire outer vagina. It is the barbarity that exists where misogyny festers most: in the Muslim and African world.

The Muslims are the principal religious group that practice female circumcision. In Egypt, for instance, 97 percent of women are circumcised. Their clitorises are amputated. In countries like Sudan, meanwhile, the women-haters are not so kind: all the women’s external genital organs are completely removed. In a savagery called infibulation, the clitoris, the two major outer lips (labia majora) and the two minor inner lips (labia minora) are amputated.

Nawal El Saadawi has documented these horrifying realities in The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. She demonstrates how the violence of female circumcision is performed on girls anywhere from the ages of one month to puberty. Usually, it is done around the age of seven or eight. Anesthetics are never used. The child is pinned down by several women, while one of them attacks.

After infibulation, the small outer opening of the vagina is the only portion left intact. A tiny piece of wood or reed is inserted to allow urine and menstrual blood to seep out. Extra narrowing of the opening is carried out with stitches, which remain until marriage. The victim’s legs are often bound together from hip to ankle and she is immobile for about a month or two.

This violence has to occur because, in much of the Islamic world, the female’s genital area is considered dirty and unacceptable. For example, in Egypt the uncircumcised girl is called nigsa (unclean). Thus, it has to be made "clean."

Many of the victims lose their lives during this torture – which is often inflicted with broken glass. Many other victims are afflicted with acute and chronic infections for the rest of their lives.

With serious and disabling lifelong consequences, the mutilation robs women of their equilibrium. It deprives them from enjoying the fullness of their sexuality and the completeness of their lives. In terms of sexual pleasure, for instance, we know that approximately 75 percent of women cannot achieve orgasm without clitoral stimulation. In other words, the possibility of orgasm has been obliterated for tens of millions of women in the Muslim world. So what does it mean if the psychic, mental and physical health of women cannot be complete if they do not experience sexual pleasure?

The terror of the circumcision itself tracks its traumatized victims down like a nightmare. Most, if not all, of these poor women end up suffering from serious sexual and/or mental distortions. The mutilation of their sexual being becomes the epicenter where sex and violence meet constantly in their lives – with them as victims.

Wedding night is often quite eventful. In some parts of the Arab and African world, the husband assaults the wife after the wedding. In Somalia, for instance, the groom beats the bride with a leather whip. After this romantic apex, he cuts the sealed vagina with a sharp scalpel or razor in order to have intercourse. He then has prolonged repeated intercourse with her for a week – to prevent the scarring from closing the vaginal opening again. During this time the wife must lie still and not move. Meanwhile, the husband takes the bloody sharp object, which represents the virginity of his wife, and makes rounds around the community – showing it off for approval. Scholars such as Raphael Patai and Vincent Crapanzano have documented these phenomena.

After this honeymoon period, the woman is now, for the first time in her life, actually recognized as a person – because she has become the extension of her husband. Her status might even improve if she has a child (a boy). She will be humiliated and shamed, however, if she has a non-child (a girl).

And if a little innocent girl enters this world, it will only be a short time before her genitals share the same fate as that of her mother’s. When the torturers and soul-destroyers begin to slice, who will hear her cries?

Jamie Glazov holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Soviet Studies. He is the author of 15 Tips on How to be a Good Leftist.. His father, Yuri Glazov, was a Soviet dissident during the Brezhnev era, who signed the Letter of Twelve, denouncing Soviet human rights abuses. His mother, Marina Glazov, also participated in the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, actively typing and circulating Samizdat - the underground political literature. To avoid imprisonment, Yuri Glazov took his family out of the USSR in 1972 and settled in Canada in 1975, when Jamie was 9. Today Jamie battles socialism from his high-tech warroom in Toronto. He writes the Dr. Progressive advice column for angst-ridden leftists at EnterStageRight.com. E-mail him at jglazov@home.com.

[bluecollarman]

"So, you wanna tell us if it worked or not?"

My wife wouldn't let me have one.

[zoyd]

heh heh.

[nopardons]

No one, least of all me, said that GOD added " useless piece of skin." HE did require a sacrifice of that piece of skin as a pack with HIM, and also as a covinent. Go read the OT . You aren't familiar enough with it, dear , to even try to discuss this topic.

Would you rather GOD demanded the killing of everyone's first born son, instead ?

What's the matter ... are you ashamed that you have been circumcised ; or that you haven't been ? Perhaps you don't believe in GOD, or that he chose the Jews to be HIS people. You certainly are having a rather difficult tome with this, for whatever reason. It is NOT even the topic of this thread. Penises just an obsession of your's ? LOL

[zoyd]

I hope you learn to spell sometime soon...

Is calling me 'dear' some sort of method of attack? Condescension doesn't look good on you, miss.

PACT, COVENANT, TIME, YOURS.

I guess you could say my penis is an obsession of mine. I like it. I'm glad to have it. Knowing it's there makes me happy.

As for the rest, why would it matter to you whether I'm cut or not? YOU seem to be pre-occupied with penises, DEAR.

That, and Judaism, which I have no problem with.

You aren't familiar enough with it, dear , to even try to discuss this topic.

I didn't quote any OT, did I? YOU seem to be hell-bent on turning this discussion into one about Judaism.

Get on your meds, quickly please.

[Bella_Bru]

Truly disgusting. A whole bunch of scared sad sacks that wish to call thmeselves men muitlate women. I've yet to meet a guy who didn't get a lot of his pleasure our of hearing his partner enjoy it.

[NYCVirago]

Actually, I hope where those hijackers went, they get their 72 virgins - and they all look like Helen Thomas.

This post is bump-worthy!

[zoyd]

Perhaps you don't believe in GOD, or that he chose the Jews to be HIS people.

I'm sorry, what was the topic on this thread?

[jeremiah]

I don't think what these people are doing to the women is circumcision, it is equivalent to taking the head of the penis off, not the skin. I don't know why they describe this torture as circumcision, it is mutilation, and a downright evil form of it.

[bluecollarman]

Zoyd....I am ashamed of you! You forgot to correct time (tome)!

[zoyd]

Yeah I did!

[jeremiah]

These men are stupid There are people that derive pleasure from inflicting pain, they are happiest when they can control others. I do believe the general state of manhood in Muslim countries, is a few notches below Neanderthal.

[ccmay]

People love to call Diversity bad names here, but learning about other cultures and living within them are very valuable lessons.

That's all very well as far as it goes, but keep in mind that learning about other cultures is not the same as tolerating or approving of unspeakable human rights violations, no matter what their cultural or religious foundations.

I enjoyed reading Prescott's Conquest of Mexico and I now have a much greater understanding of the "diversity" of pre-Columbian religious practices. However, these practices included throwing virgins into sinkholes and tearing the hearts out of living human sacrifices on the altars of the great Aztec pyramids.

Does "diversity" require that we tolerate or approve of these practices? Hardly. I am glad that this religion was stamped out and that its priests and most devoted followers all were killed. Let us pray that something similar happens to the Wahhabi sect of Islam.

Learning about other cultures and traveling to other countries is to be applauded. Teaching tolerance of other races and religions is, in general, worthwhile. But mindless cultural relativism in the name of diversity is not.

We must not be ashamed to say that Western Civilization in general and the United States in particular represent the best society that mankind has yet built. Other cultures, though they may be interesting and even noble in some respects, are inferior. We lead the world because we deserve to lead it. Call it imperialism or the White Man's burden if you like, but it is the truth.

-ccm

[Khaleel]

No, it is called THE CIVIL WAR , or THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES, or THE WAR BETWEEN NORTH & SOUTH, etc. To call it " the war of EVIL Yankee aggression, is carrying forward the same sort of mallevilant rot, as Osama bi Laden uses toay against the USA.

War of the First Republican President Against State's Rights

[Quix]

. . . the religion of satan!

You got it!

Our understanding of their reality can be painful.

But not as painful as their daily traumas.

In a way . . . it's another example of the extremes being closer to each other than to the middle. . . . such as on the rebellious end--the bleakness of shallow casual sex ends up pushing the exploitation of the closeness of the gentital nerve fibers to the pain fibers and S&M can end up in very terminal sex. . . . .and on the extreme fundamentalist end--we have the above. Both are the death of sexual joy.

Joy is a function of an enhanced, progressive growing and flowering--a dance increasing in richness, notes, nuances, symphony with the years of increasing intimacy.

Taking a treasure--especially a treasure of communication and cheapening it with casual disregard and endless selfish grasping, groping will increasingly tend toward deadliness until there's no more life to die.

. . . .whether bones with muscle and skin still ambles around, or not.

[kaylar]

There have been cases of Muslims here and in the UK and France doing this to their children. Most have been immigrants, but here (GA and IL) a few cases have involved Muslim converts.

In the UK and in France, there was a public outcry when it was revealed that doctors were performing mutilations on immigrant children at hospitals, on the grounds of "They'll do it anyway without anethesia and scapels if we don't " . I believe there were only a few doctors willing to do this, and this practice is now banned. In the US , immigrants have been prosecuted and (I think I remember) children have been taken by CPS when it became known their parents were going to return them to their homelands for mutilation. But adult converts who choose to have this done to themselves are allowed to do so without fear that they'll be forced into psychiatric care as a result, or that their mutilators will be prosecuted, so long as it was done with consent.

[kaylar]

My mom was a nurse, and she once told me how horrified she was (back in the 1960s) to see the little boys screaming in agony from the pain of circumcision. She told the doctors how she felt, and they laughed at her, telling her airily that "everyone knows babies' nerve systems are too primitive and undeveloped to feel pain at that age. It's just fear." Thankfully, by the 1980s it was learned that a baby's nervous system is every bit as sensitive to pain as older children, and they now use anesthesia. But how can doctors have been so blinded to the obvious truth of baby pain, simply by dogma, when their own eyes and ears should have shown them the truth?

[ikanakattara]

This should NOT be called "female circumcision." It is NOT circumcision, and has nothing to do with removing the male foreskin. The equivalent would be removing the man's *entire penis.*

Someone asked, why do women "let" this be done to themselves? They don't - it is done to LITTLE GIRLS between the age of about 7 and 10 years old, *without anesthetic.*

In countries like Somalia and Egypt, virtually all of the women have this done to them. Imagine this, people. Imagine a Muslim majority in this country. Imagine this done to your daughters. Imagine.

[lavaroise]

The Muslims are the principal religious group that practice female circumcision. In Egypt, for instance, 97 percent of women are circumcised. Their clitorises are amputated. In countries like Sudan, meanwhile, the women-haters are not so kind: all the women’s external genital organs are completely removed. In a savagery called infibulation, the clitoris, the two major outer lips (labia majora) and the two minor inner lips (labia minora) are amputated.

See, the left wants peace and understanding, so that clitoral harvesting can keep going.

[wjcsux]

Actually, I think there is a law against this in the U.S. Peppermint Patty Schroeder (D-CO) got a law through that makes this practice illegal for women under age 18. If this is the case, it is probably the only good she did for this country.