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.

	Make Comments
	View Comments
	Printable Article
	Email Article

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.

[joathome]

In fact, I have read of a few young men who are coming of age, and who were NOT circumcised, and are choosing to undergo circumcision.

Seems that their sexual partners aren't interested in oral sex. Not as clean.

The topic of circumcision regularly comes up on another message board I frequent, and it's been interesting reading the pros and cons.

[Skalven]

With our first boy, we persuaded our Ob/Gyn doctor to circumcise on the eighth day, the norm for hospitals at that time being the third day. We were able to show research that indicated that the levels of anti-coagulants and pain suppressors normally peaked on day eight, and she agreed. Our son, never given to suppressing his emotions, fussed slightly at the [cold] plastic pelvic restraint used, but didn't seem to notice the cut, which was almost bloodless. The next two boys had a similar experience, none of them remember it, and we still have a very good relationship!

The doctor was impressed by the scientific backing behind what I consider to be both a spiritual covenant, as well as being a health benefit. She became an advocate of 8th day circumcision, and, with our permission, invited other staff to witness. The boys are probably glad not to remember this!

And to the oldest, who posts here, I'll say, Son, I love you, I did it for you, and it hurt me more than it seemed to hurt you!

Now, as for my daughter, I left perfection alone.

[PJ-Comix]

The boys are probably glad not to remember this!

And even happier that they won't have to get circumcized at adulthood when it would really be painful.

[Skalven]

A part of Old Testament warfare, I seem to remember.

[Skalven]

Refreshing memory .... Genesis 34:25

" Now it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and came boldly upon the city and killed all the males."

[rockfish59]

or 'lotta bottom'?

[Egg]

in the late 19th century, as you can easily verify...

But not so easy that you would provide us with any sort of documentation, eh?

We aren't as removed from the Talibans as a lot of you would like to think.

I'm so tired of hearing of this type of bunk. Sell your anti-American tripe on some other server.

[Le-Roy]

   The only reason for an adult male to ever be circumcised would be congenital defects, or slovenly grooming habits. There is no medically-sound basis for performing this procedure on an otherwise healthy male.

[briant]

American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on circumcision

[Hamza01]

So why don't Muslim clerics CONDEMN it? Can't they excommunicate (or whatever they call it) any African Muslim who condones this practice?

Because their is no central religious authority in Islam (like the Papacy). (the first Arab Imperial state killed off virtually all of Mohammed's descendants)

Also, because in Africa-- the clerics are African themselves and probably seek to preserve the animist culture the were raised into.

[briant]

I guess I'll include the rest.

More Circumcision stuff.

[epow]

Have you ever thought that the reason Islam is so barbaric and cruel is that it is a religion that originated in the nomadic tribal regions of the middle-east, and to those people, this is everyday life?

That may indeed be a factor, it's true that casual cruelty to people and animals doesn't seem to be particularly evil to people who are themselves suffering and struggling just to survive in a harsh environment where hardship and pain are everyday realities. But islam institutionalizes murder and cruelty as an offical intrument for converting the "infidel" world, and for keeping it's believers from accepting "heresies" such as Christianity.

Barbaric treatment of people by primitive, semi-civilized tribesmen is one thing, murder and torture as a deliberate policy of the educated and urbane clergy of an organized religious institution is something else. I believe the unspeakable cruelties practiced by the apostate medieval church were just as Satanically inspired as the cruelties of islam. But the church was reformed during the renaissance, and forced conversion was eventually proscribed both by the reformers and the Catholic church. Meanwhile, islam continues to force conversions and punish "infidels" by murder and persecution just as it has for 1400 years. This is also true to a lesser degree of some other false religions, but islam is the most notorious offender. I believe that all religions except Judaism and Christianity are Satanic in origin, but islam in particular seems to be his preferred instrument for persecution of the church and Judaism.

[znix]

That's one of the most disturbing articles I've ever read.

[The Right Stuff]

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

THAT, was priceless. I firmly believe that God has a good sense of humor, this would be the ultimate HELL for any man.

BTW, can someone post the thread where HT was drooling all over DIRTPOTUS at a function recently? I'd like to mail it to my local paper, as evidence that the hideous HT isn't an impartial reporter at all and should be considered, like a bug under a microscope, as the alien parasite that she is.

Thanks.

[The Right Stuff]

Whoa, what you described is completely horrific. I can't believe the mother didn't deck, immediately, both grandparents and mothers.

[Doc On The Bay]

Ah, me, sometimes "myth" has a Powerful effect on the "peoples" perception of reality.

I HATE this subject, because it is "Personal, & 'Painful'"!

ONE MORE TIME, I will attempt to educate the "FR Circumcision Buffs!"

What I NOW tell you is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH---Un-Tainted by ANY "socio-political agenda!"

-------The Removal of the Male Foreskin DIRECTLY REDUCES the "Male's" ability to receive Sexual Stimulation, & Substantially reduces the "Male's" ability to appreciate Sexual stimulation to the head of his Penis!!

THERE, --I've Said it!!--!

Male circumcision has a DELETERIOUS EFFECT on male sexual pleasure!!

FIRE AWAY!!

As an "Un-Circumcised Male," I can ABSOLUTELY DEFEND the above postulations!

Doc

[The Right Stuff]

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. ***

Way big dittos, bud. You are correct.

[bluecollarman]

"Male circumcision has a DELETERIOUS EFFECT on male sexual pleasure!!"

Doc, honestly...I don't think I could stand it if felt any better. I will just have to take your word on this one. I did manage to father 5 wonderful children.

[boop]

But, but, what about leftists claiming it's "racist" to impose our western values on these people. Isn't it bigotry to object to this mutilation? It's almost as shameful as our western ideas about vaccinating children against disease. Who are we to think that western civilization is superior?