“It has been illegal in the UK since 1985,” but no one has been convicted of it. Why? Probably because convictions would be “Islamophobic.” Establishment media treatments of female genital mutilation routinely insist that it has nothing to do with Islam, but actually FGM is mandated in Islamic law: “Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) (by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr ‘clitoris’ [this is called khufaadh ‘female circumcision’]).” — Umdat al-Salik e4.3, translated by Mark Durie, The Third Choice, p. 64
Why is it obligatory? Because Muhammad is held to have said so: “Abu al- Malih ibn Usama’s father relates that the Prophet said: ‘Circumcision is a law for men and a preservation of honour for women.’” — Ahmad Ibn Hanbal 5:75
“Narrated Umm Atiyyah al-Ansariyyah: A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said to her: ‘Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband.’” — Abu Dawud 41:5251
That hadith is classified as weak, but this one is classified as sahih (reliable): “Aishah narrated: ‘When the circumcised meets the circumcised, then indeed Ghusl is required. Myself and Allah’s Messenger did that, so we performed Ghusl.’” — Jami` at-Tirmidhi 108
If Muhammad had the genitals of his favorite wife, Aisha, mutilated, that is a strong endorsement of the practice from the man who is an “excellent example” (Qur’an 33:21) for Muslims.
“Babies falling victim to horrific FGM in scandal which shames Birmingham,” by Alison Stacey, BirminghamLive, October 5, 2018:
Ten Birmingham baby girls less than a year old have become victims of barbaric female genital mutilation.
Sickening statistics revealed by the NHS showed that, in just three months, city doctors recorded ten new cases of babies who had undergone the harrowing procedure.
All were not yet 12 months old in cases uncovered between April and June this year.
The shocking figures also revealed that 15 children aged between one and four were reported as FGM victims by Birmingham medics.
In total, there were 140 new cases of the abuse in the city in those three months, according to data published by NHS Digital.
In many cases, the ages of patients were not included, but, of those recorded, most victims were between five and nine….
It has been illegal in the UK since 1985, and in 2003 the law was strengthened to prevent girls travelling from the UK and undergoing FGM abroad.
But doctors in Birmingham are recording an average two cases of FGM a day, with 74 per cent of them recorded as new victims.
Across England 1,015 new cases were recorded in the same three-month period, 40 per cent of which were in London, and 14 per cent in Birmingham.
Most of the women and girls affected were born in east and north Africa, where they underwent FGM before coming to Britain.
But 25 cases recorded in England from April to June were believed to have been carried out in the UK….