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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Well, at least you know now that it wasn't your fault that you left Paula Abdul somewhat "wanting".
Walt
The "Hee Haw - Next Generation" dinner show starring Junior Samples Jr. is quite delightful however.
How many Moslems do you know?
Western feminists make it their business to fight against men, not other women. It is a tenet of modern feminist dogma that men are naturally despicable, and women paragons of virtue and the embodiment of all that is good in the world. Scratching the surface of infibulation reveals that grandmothers and their "sewing circles" are the ones responsible for continuing this barbarity. Public recognition of this fact by the feminists would be inconsistent with and in fact contrary to some of their most fundamental dogma. Therefore, the facts are conveniently ignored while the feminist leaders pay mere lip-service to the need for greater understanding and education for the perpetrators, who, being female, must by definition be victims of some historical male bias inherent in their culture.
Furthermore, the urge to continue this barbarism is almost intractable. In some colonial and formerly colonial cultures, India for example, the practice of clitorodectomy and infibulation were outlawed and made punishable by death once the colonial governments found out what was going on. Despite the law and executions, the practice went on and continues in secret, though has gradually diminished as western influences have brought freedom, education and cultural change.
Why would a grandmother and the other old crones of the neighbourhood want to cut a jagged bloody hole where her grandaughters' external genitalia used to be? I'd say it's because having the same done to them has driven them insane. I'd say because theirs were cut off when they were children, and the thinking is what was good enough for them is now good enough for their daughters and granddaughters. Not just their genitals got mutilated, but their sanity as well.
Name the many countries. My wife is a Moslem from the Middle East. She will be very interested in learning this.
Could this also explain the inexplicable?
i.e.: mothers pushing their young sons to grow up to be martyrs for the One True Religion
and its Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him?
You sum up my thoughts perfectly.
I used to believe that the only stupid question was the one left unasked. You've changed my mind.
Um.... So what is the purpose of tonsils?
Right.
There have been no comprehensive global surveys of the prevalence of female genital mutilation. Most of the girls and women who have undergone mutilation live in 28 African countries (Figure 1).It is practised by many ethnic groups, from the east to the west coast of Africa, in the southern parts of the Arabian peninsula and along the Persian Gulf, and increasingly amongst some immigrant populations in Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States of America. It has also been reported to be practised by Daudi Bohra Muslims who live in India and amongst Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia. Infibulation is widespread in Somalia, northern Sudan and Djibouti and has been reported in Ethiopia, Eritrea, northern Kenya, some parts of Mali and northern Nigeria. Introcision has only been documented in some Aboriginal communities of Australia, but is not considered to be a current practice amongst this group.
On the basis of government reports, anecdotal evidence and limited surveys with non-representative samples, the prevalence of mutilation in countries where it is practised is estimated to range from 5% to 98% (Hosken, 1995, Toubia, 1995). Sudan is the only country to have carried out nationwide surveys (El Dareer, 1980, the Sudan Fertility Survey 1979; Sudan Demographic and Health Survey, 1989/1990). They were based on a national sample which excluded the three southern provinces, where the practice is unknown (except by adoption through marriage with members of northern groups where mutilation is practised), and indicated an initial prevalence of 89% which subsequently declined by 8%. A study by the Nigerian Association of Nurses and Nurse-midwives conducted in 1985B1986 using a sample of 400 women and men in each state showed that 13 out of the 21 states had populations practising some form of female genital mutilation, prevalence ranging from 35% to 90%. However, the data could not be extrapolated to give a national picture. Similar surveys exist for Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya and Senegal.
In 1989-1990, a series of questions on female genital mutilation were incorporated in the Demographic Health Survey (DHS I) in Sudan. The Central African Republic and the Ivory Coast have also incorporated a few questions on the practice in their national Demographic and Health Survey (1994 and 1994-1995 respectively). A full module on female genital mutilation containing 20 questions (DHS III) was field tested in Mali and in Eritrea in 1995, and Egypt integrated 34 questions on female genital mutilation in its national Demographic and Health Survey in the same year. It is hoped that these attempts will generate more reliable incidence and prevalence data in future years.
Too bad because your son is gonna be mighty pissed off at you later in life when he does get circumcised. At that point in his life it will be painful. You should have done it when he felt almost nothing and definitely remembers none of what little pain there is. I had a friend of mine who got circumcised for health reasons as an adult and he was angry at his folks for not having him circumcised as a baby.
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