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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Probably no more painful than slapping him in the face to get the baby to breath. The problem nowadays is this urge to avoid pain at all costs, even if the pain involved is very low level. What do you want to do? Ban spanking? That is painful too... And probably a lot more painful than circumcision.
The ironic thing is that by avoiding circumcision soon after birth a lot of people are condemning their sons to suffer a hell of a lot of pain later in life when they do decide to get circumcised.
Ummmm, it was God Who told the Jews to circumcise their male infants :)
I dunno why He did it that way, but not only does it provide for less disease for men in later life, it also lowers the rate of disease for women.
So it's a good thing. I don't want MY foreskin back < g >
Not true!! Moslems love to equate allah with Jehovah of the Judeo-Christian bible, but that is blasphemy of the worst kind. The God of the Judeo-Christian bible is definately NOT the the "god" of the koran.
The father of the Arabs was Abraham's bastard son Ishmael. The father of the Israelis was Isaac, the legitimate son promised to Abraham by Jehovah God. The true God revealed Himself to Abraham and his children, and their progeny later recieved the Jewish religion directly from God as He spoke through Moses.
Satan decieved the Arabs into believing he (Satan) is God by meeting Mohammed in a desert cave and revealing the fundamentals of the Islamic religion to him. Mohammed believed he had met with angels in that cave, but in fact he met with Satan and his demons.
If you ever wondered why islam is such a cruel and barbaric religion, the answer is that it is the creation of Satan himself. Allah is actually Satan, and Islam is the world's largest Satanic cult. Those who want us to believe that allah is the same God which Christians and Jews worship are the same ones who falsly tell us that islam is a religion of peace and love, while it's holiest book tells it's believers to torment and kill anyone who won't accept it.
Perhaps but it is not very painful. Certainly much less painful than a run of the mill spanking. I remember once in junior high school when I was sent to the Dean's office for a paddling. Some of the other kids waiting their turns were sobbing and screaming as if they were facing a torture chamber. This got me nervous too. But when my turn came I barely felt that paddle. It was nothing compared to the spanikings (and whippings) that I got at home. Bottom line is that the hype about the pain of circumcision sounds like the hype I was given about the paddlings.
I don't see that implication at all. He doesn't command non-jews to be circumcised. What he commanded them to do was for a mark of their belonging to him and being set apart by him. Much like piercing an ear was done to slaves that wanted to stay with their masters because they loved their masters and vice versa.
I understand what you're saying. It's just that this mutilation of women is another facet of their evilness that we have noticed. I'm still wondering how widespread a practice this is. We may never know, because it probably isn't something they brag about, and most of the women who have succumbed to the system aren't going to speak out.
I believe that you are correct.
I always thought men who are circumcised still enjoyed sex. What do I know, being a woman. They sure put up a good act.
I remember that article. I can't remember her name. She was a beautiful young woman who was brave to describe this terrible procedure.
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