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Islam’s Hatred of the Clitoris
FrontPage Magazine ^ | Jamie Glazov

Posted on 10/18/2001 9:48:56 PM PDT by 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.


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To: zoyd
I think they do that already. The fact is, most feminists, when talking about 'feminist' issues, are talking about domestic 'feminist' issues.

They're talking about socialist issues. It's mostly based on what's fashionable.

Ask them about foreign treatment of women, and you'll get exactly what you're asking for -- women demanding that these bass-ackward countries evolve a little. There's plenty of press about feminists trying to use the UN to sway opinion on these, and other feminist issues.

They are not unapolgetically declaring Western freedom is best. They are, however, unapologetically declaring is that big government UN socialism is best. If I were a a third-worlder I'd be ticked too.

I think most feminist don't give a rats rear-end about third-world women. I think they care about themselves and their own self-image.

Socialist progressives are good at giving orders. They are incapable of saying why something is right or good. Why is female circumsion wrong? Because it is cruel to women. Why is that wrong? Well, ah, well, ah becaus it is.

It is wrong to be cruel because we are all made in God's image. We have natural rights. Feminist don't belive this.

141 posted on 10/18/2001 11:30:46 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Pokey78
It is NOT Imam, so I guess it is the other one.
142 posted on 10/18/2001 11:32:47 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: patriciaruth
It's an old joke. If you never heard it before, it is my great pleasure to have told it to you.
143 posted on 10/18/2001 11:33:36 PM PDT by Aurelius
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To: Junior_G
I thought we settled the multiculturalism question during the Civil War.

How so?

Multiculturalism wasn't a defense for slavery. Nor should it be used as a defense for mutalition.

144 posted on 10/18/2001 11:34:37 PM PDT by Khaleel
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To: nopardons
You are right. It is Waris. I'll see if I can find the link to her story.
145 posted on 10/18/2001 11:34:38 PM PDT by CarolAnn
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To: MHGinTN
"[W]ith this atrocity in existence, why do the feminazis focus on slaughtering the unborn, instead of going to war to stop this hideous mutilation of girls/women?"

Pro-death advocates are in favor of mutilating baby girls, but only if they're killed in the process.

146 posted on 10/18/2001 11:36:19 PM PDT by toenail
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To: Tribune7
Feminists lack credibility because they don't mind if the entire baby girl is mutilated and torn to pieces if it's called an abortion. You can even wait till the baby is born and then rip it apart, mutilate it's brain by extracting it into a syringe, harvest the organs or whatever.
148 posted on 10/18/2001 11:38:21 PM PDT by FITZ
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To: nopardons
You evidently have NO idea what you are talking about. It wasn't that " GOD screwed up "; it was a pack and a coveninent WITH GOD . It was also, I suspsect an easy way of tellng just who was who, rather easily, for the Ancient Hebrews.

You really believe that? Yikes. So God purposely added some useless flesh for the benefit of Ancient Hebrews? Please. Oh, and 'pact' and 'covenant'.

149 posted on 10/18/2001 11:38:23 PM PDT by zoyd
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To: rudeboy666
"As it was pointed out above, MOST muslim countries DO NOT practice female 'circumcision'. I think that Mr. Glazov gets to carried away in his zeal to show the evils of the Islamic world"

Okay, I will accept this.. most of them live in African countries, a few in the Middle East Asia, and even in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada." However, when it is practiced in the countries outside of Africa is it primarily by Moslems?

I do agree it looks to be a cultural thing, but it is found in fundamental Islamic communities of all cultures. I do see your point, I do not mean to say it is prominent and accepted in all of Islam.

150 posted on 10/18/2001 11:39:00 PM PDT by bluecollarman
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To: nopardons
Male circumcision doesn't harm men .

Yeah, spoken like a woman, I suppose? I guess performing surgical procedures on 8-day-old babies is a great thing. You've converted me to your perverted thought.

151 posted on 10/18/2001 11:40:27 PM PDT by zoyd
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To: nopardons
Interestingly enough, it is around 7-8 days after birth that a newborn's level of blood coagulant peaks. I can't remember where I picked up this factoid, but I remember it as reputable, so it stuck with me. If any one has any more to this, true or false, please by all means, post. I see circumcision as a matter left to parents, best done while the infant has no memory of the pain. People pierce their daughters ears at infant age, to avoid having the baby play with it, and for the same forgetting of pain at that young age. People should mind their own damn business.
152 posted on 10/18/2001 11:40:50 PM PDT by cport
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To: toenail
It's amazing how feminists will object to one piece of tissue being cut out of a woman but not if the piece of tissue being cut out is her baby. Where is their argument "it's only a small piece of the mother's tissue"?
153 posted on 10/18/2001 11:41:31 PM PDT by FITZ
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To: CarolAnn
"I hope where those hijackers went, they get their 72 virgins - and they all look like Helen Thomas."

Janet Reno is uglier if she could ever hold still long enough to get a good look at her.
154 posted on 10/18/2001 11:42:16 PM PDT by Robert Lomax
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To: East Bay Patriot
Ha Ha! Sic'em East Bay Patriot! Did you buy your new anti-terrorist spray yet? Not many left in stock!
155 posted on 10/18/2001 11:44:00 PM PDT by bluecollarman
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To: nopardons
it was a pack and a coveninent WITH GOD .

I would guess that's the excuse Muslims would make, too.

156 posted on 10/18/2001 11:44:04 PM PDT by zoyd
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To: Nogbad
Female 'Circumcision' is not a Moslem practice it is an African practice. It is not practiced by Moslems outside Africa.

Wrong answer Bucko.

This cheery little Afican custom has been enthusiastically embraced by much of Islam and carried as far as Indonesia.

158 posted on 10/18/2001 11:47:24 PM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: cport
That's male circumcision. To equate this practice and what is described as happening in the ME and Africa to women as one and the same is intellectually lazy and dishonest, zoyd.
159 posted on 10/18/2001 11:51:49 PM PDT by cport
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To: bluecollarman
There was a sect of the Russian Orthodox Church that had similar practices. However, the men cut off the genitalia and the women cut off their breasts (don't know about the clitoris). There is a book about it which I read very quickly at Borders one night.
160 posted on 10/18/2001 11:52:03 PM PDT by Robert Lomax
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