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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 the male penis has 'evolved' or was 'created' just fine, thank you very much."

Look, don't have strong feelings one way or another. My wife is a nurse and she has seen some problems with men that don't take care of their youknowhats. She wanted all of ours to get cut because of that and adhesions. I can't say that I ever recall missing mine.

To each his own I say. I don't think it's going to keep you out of heaven. My point is that it's not the same as mutilating a female.

61 posted on 10/18/2001 10:40:29 PM PDT by bluecollarman
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To: VinnyTex
Bunch of pagan wack jobs. Allah the pagan god.
62 posted on 10/18/2001 10:40:50 PM PDT by JJ59
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To: Tribune7
So what else are they doing about it besides voting (and campaigning and providing financial contributions) for gutless bozos who's highest value is "diversity" and who want to destroy our military?

Well, I don't think there's much public support for carpet-bombing countries on the grounds that they practice female circumcision, so what would you suggest?

Maybe you're just not familiar with feminist causes, but female mutilation is certainly one of them. What would you suggest they do? Is supporting a large military going to stop female mutilation? I don't think so.

63 posted on 10/18/2001 10:41:00 PM PDT by zoyd
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To: Senator Pardek
LOL!
64 posted on 10/18/2001 10:41:45 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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To: VinnyTex
But....theirs is a peaceful religion.....wanna bet???
67 posted on 10/18/2001 10:42:35 PM PDT by nobdysfool
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To: bluecollarman
To each his own I say. I don't think it's going to keep you out of heaven. My point is that it's not the same as mutilating a female.

Granted. I watched a documentary on it -- 13-year-old girls being lined up and sent into a not-very-sanitary tent, with some old nurse lady with a scary-looking, possibly rusted blade ready to lop off labias left and right. You could tell that NONE of the women were happy about having to endure or perform the 'surgery', if you can call it that. Brutal.

68 posted on 10/18/2001 10:43:43 PM PDT by zoyd
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To: Vicki
"Don't they realize that if they let the women experience sexual pleasure, that they will get more pleasure in return."

It is not about pleasure, it's only about control. They don't even allow them to move. If their wife acted like she enjoyed it, she would probably get stoned.

69 posted on 10/18/2001 10:44:04 PM PDT by bluecollarman
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To: Theresa
Just another jack off.One thing we guys can laugh off about this is that we can't remember going under the knife...what the Muslims do is not for newborn babies.They are savages.
71 posted on 10/18/2001 10:45:07 PM PDT by habs4ever
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To: Nogbad
"It is not practiced by Moslems outside Africa.

Your incorrect.

72 posted on 10/18/2001 10:46:01 PM PDT by bluecollarman
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To: CarolAnn
Male circumcision doesn't prevent him from having sexual pleasure.

Explain that to the married guys.......

73 posted on 10/18/2001 10:46:38 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
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To: DouglasKC
I'm having a tough time believing this. I can't believe that any man or woman would do this or allow it to be done if it's done as described.

It's done but it is a cultural practice not a religious one. Note how the article ties religion with cultural practice but can provides ancedotes from one region of Africa.

Like this:
The Christians are the principal religious group that practice abortion. In United States, for instance, 97 percent of women...

74 posted on 10/18/2001 10:46:59 PM PDT by Khaleel
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To: bluecollarman
If I am incorrect, name a country outside Africa where it is practiced.
75 posted on 10/18/2001 10:47:49 PM PDT by Nogbad
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To: bluecollarman
I know they practice it in Iran. I'm pretty sure it's throughout the Muslim world.
76 posted on 10/18/2001 10:47:51 PM PDT by CarolAnn
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To: Hawkeye's Girl
It is times like these that illustrate many of the great ironies in American politics: Jews vote overwhelmingly democratic yet conservatives are more supportive of Israel; Pacifist rail against American aggression yet these are same people who cry that we aren't doing enough to help 3rd world countries suffering under authoritarian regimes; and feminist shout out for diversity but where do they turn when confronted with the atrocities against women in the Middle East? To paraphrase a saying-- Conservatives are Liberals mugged by reality.
77 posted on 10/18/2001 10:48:19 PM PDT by BoomerBob
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To: GOVscrewsU
So does Christianity and Jews hate male sexuality since they practice circumcision.

This procedure is roughly equivalent to cutting the entire head off of the penis. Male circumsision would be more like cutting off the clitoral hood, not the clit itself.

Lots of American Xian males are circumcised. Lots of us like being that way.

78 posted on 10/18/2001 10:48:19 PM PDT by Britton J Wingfield
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To: CarolAnn; reg45
OK, what I was trying to avoid saying was that even if you "whacked his thing off", you would not have taken as much tissue in many cases (sorry, guys) that has been taken from these women.

Plus, often that is equated with castration, which involves removal of the testicles. Since this female circumcision removes tissue relating to pleasure, and they leave the ovaries in place, (thank Allah - can you imagine removing THEM with a broken piece of glass?????) it isn't the same as castration in a male. See how difficult it is to find an equal treatment in a male?

In addition, the external and internal labia are protective in function, and to remove them literally "opens up" the area to infection. Also, these poor women must pee all over themselves since they have no "aim" mechanism left! That would make it tough to squat and pee without wetting yourself and maybe THAT is why they don't object so much to covering their faces since they are most likely constantly embarrassed.

The fact that they don't want women to have any sexual pleasure makes it even easier to hate them, doesn't it? The kind of man who would dream up this torture is simply sick. Since they aren't men enough for a whole woman, they have to cut her up. Sick, sick, sick.

Maybe that's why they hate us so much, we have Clitoris Power. tee hee

79 posted on 10/18/2001 10:48:22 PM PDT by seams2me
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