Islam's Hatred of the Clitoris
Posted on 11/26/2004 6:06:52 PM PST by ChristianDefender
Young girls born in Europe to immigrant families from Africa are being subjected to ritual genital mutilation, and authorities are doing little to discourage it, a leading women’s rights activist warned.
Somalia-born supermodel and best-selling author Waris Dirie, who has campaigned to end the disfiguring practice she suffered at age five in her homeland, said yesterday that she estimates one in every three African families living in Europe is secretly carrying out the ritual on their daughters. No official figures exist.
The procedure – illegal in most European countries – is especially prevalent in Germany and the Netherlands, as well as in Austria, where an estimated 8,000 girls born into immigrant families have been affected, Dirie said.
“We don’t know who’s doing it and where,” because there are few initiatives to prevent it or to encourage doctors, nurses, social workers, teachers and others to report suspected cases, Dirie said. An exception is France, where there is strong awareness and education, she said.
“What good is a law if no one is paying attention?” Dirie told reporters in Austria, where she was being honoured yesterday by a Roman Catholic men’s movement for her efforts to stop the practice.
Islamic religious leaders are telling Europe’s Muslim Africans that the prophets recommend the ancient ritual, which involves the removal of the clitoris, often with a dull blade and no anaesthesia, Dirie said.
“That is a catastrophe,” she said. “Every imam who is not actively against genital mutilation is guilty. Mutilation is not a tradition – it’s a crime that must be abolished.”
Although women generally perform the procedure, sometimes called female circumcision, men are ultimately responsible because “untrimmed” young women “face great difficulties in African societies in finding a husband,” Dirie said.
Between 100 million and 140 million women have undergone genital mutilation worldwide, and two million girls are at risk each year, according to the World Health Organisation, which says the practice can lead to infection, the spread of Aids and crippling physical, psychological and sexual problems.
The practice has been on the rise not only among immigrants in Europe but also in Australia, Canada and the US, Who says.
Petra Bayr, an official with Austria’s Socialist Party, said the bloc’s women would press the government to consider genital mutilation an “act of violence” and legitimate grounds for women fleeing it to be granted asylum in Austria.
“Women who are threatened with genital mutilation or have already suffered it should not have to wait for months for an open door,” added Raimund Loeffelmann, a spokesman for the Catholic men’s organisation honouring Dirie yesterday.
It does seem that way, doesn't it?
Both the foreskin and the head of the penis have a lot of nerves in them. Removing the foreskin removes a lot of those nerves, reducing the pleasure a man can get from sex. However, there is enough left in the head that men can get on with their lives and enjoy sex plenty.
But it is true that removing the foreskin reduces sexual pleasure; in fact, that's why American Christians started having their children circumcised. The idea was that it would make the boys more "moral." It was sold as a hygenic improvement, but back then "hygenie" meant both moral as well as physical cleanliness.
It's the same reason cereals became popular breakfast foods. Doctors thought feeding children meats for breakfast (eggs and bacon and whatnot) would make them horny.
It is repulsive and painful to even contemplate. It is a Satanic dismemberment of the most cruel kind.
But it is true that removing the foreskin reduces sexual pleasure; in fact, that's why American Christians started having their children circumcised.Nonsense.
Do you have even one shred of empirical proof to back up such an outrageous and ridiculous claim?
Other than something from some fringe/wacko group or au natural advocacy organization?
They probably couldn't satisfy their women anyway.....
You're right! And there is quite a difference.
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