Posted on 10/18/2001 9:48:56 PM PDT by VinnyTex
Islams Hatred of the Clitoris FrontPageMagazine.com | October 19, 2001
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 womans natural makeup. In achieving this feat on all women, you will become able to ruthlessly dominate them.
Thats what female circumcision is all about. Its 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 womens 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 victims 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 females 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 mothers. When the torturers and soul-destroyers begin to slice, who will hear her cries? |
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Only in the US, and it has nothing to do with Christianity, and large fraction of population chooses to forgo that stupid operation.
You've made a wise decision. Foreskin has a lot of nerve endings and the cut people don't know what they are missing. Besides, mutilation is an ugly custom.
No, it is not Islamic. It is not even Arab. This is an African custom. It is practiced in non-Muslim areas of Africa well.
Male circumcision doesn't prevent him from having sexual pleasure.
Agreed. BIG DIFFERENCE! Not that I'll go into any further detail...
; )
Muslims, Christians, and Jews all worship the same God!
There are some who would vehemently disagree.....
Click on the pic for the rest of the story:
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Not legal here for sure but I wonder if is is not accepted in some groups in America. On a very liberal bulletin board, a woman just told me immigrants are doing it here. Do you, or anyone else, know of cases?
This is an issue we should not let fade away. The left wants to blame America for the attacks. They need to know what kind of a culture they are defending. While is is incorrect to associate all Moslems with this practice, the question does need to be asked why Christians were able to stamp out slavery, thugee and suttee while Moslems have not been able to eliminate either slavery nor female genital mutilation.
A waste of natural resources. Where's the Sierra Club when you need them!!
Yeah...and talk like Fran Drescher!
Link:
Chicago Tribune - Defying the Law: Refugee Immigrants Demand Female Circumcision at U.S. Hospitals
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They are so f*&%ng ignorant: a baby's sex is determined by the man. If anything, the man should be shamed.
I thank God everyday for making me part of the West.
Can't imagine going through their lifestyles.
And you base this insipid assertion on what?
OK let me guess. You said this just to say it...to be "cute," perhaps?
You clearly have no medical knowledge.
Over the past two years, some Somali and other refugees have asked physicians at Harborview Medical Center about performing the rite, which some call female circumcision, but opponents condemn as female genital mutilation. The question came up when doctors routinely asked expectant refugee mothers if they wanted their baby circumcised if it was a boy. Some mothers responded, "Yes, and also if it is a girl."
This summer the hospital, which has a long history of sensitivity to diverse cultures and customs, convened a committee of doctors to discuss what to do about the requests.
"You cannot take away the rights of families and women," Mohamed said. "As leaders and elders of the community we cannot force a mother to accept the general idea of the community. She can say, `I want my girl to have letting of blood.' "
Some 150,000 females of African origin in the United States have been cut, or face the possibility of being cut, according to an estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Somali men and women told The Seattle Times their daughters would be shamed, dishonored and unmarriageable if they were not cut, an act they believe shows their purity.
They also said that if they could not get it done in the U.S. they would pay the $1,500 fare to fly their daughters to their homeland, where they face the extreme version of the cutting ritual.
See #232 above for the link to this story.
This is crap. Where do you get off posting this kind of an assertion when you clearly have not researched the matter?
The Facts: Some 150,000 females of African origin in the United States have been cut, or face the possibility of being cut,
according to an estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
See post #232 above.
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