Islamic apologists in the West routinely insist that female genital mutilation is an African tribal practice, that it has nothing to do with Islam. Imam Mala Yassin Hakim Piskandi, although he holds a master’s degree in Islamic jurisprudence, didn’t get the memo. He here speaks of the Shafi’i school of Islamic law, which teaches this […]
41 percent of Kurdish women have suffered female genital mutilation
“Circumcision is obligatory (O: for both men and women. For men it consists of removing the prepuce from the penis, and for women, removing the prepuce (Ar. bazr) of the clitoris (n: not the clitoris itself, as some mistakenly assert). (A: Hanbalis hold that circumcision of women is not obligatory but sunna, while Hanafis consider […]
UNHR Council OIC ‘Sharia-gate Shipwreck’: Islam will not be crucified at this Council: Reminder why FGM remains 96% in Egypt
Comments by David G. Littman: NGO Representative to the UN – Geneva: Association for World Education / World Union for Progressive Judaism * * * * * Having already posted a text on the usual “Palestine and other occupied Arab territories” here, and another on the Syrian Blood-Libel renewal – also item 9 (“Silence that […]
Female genital mutilation widespread in Iraqi Kurdistan
“Circumcision is obligatory (O: for both men and women. For men it consists of removing the prepuce from the penis, and for women, removing the prepuce (Ar. bazr) of the clitoris (n: not the clitoris itself, as some mistakenly assert). (A: Hanbalis hold that circumcision of women is not obligatory but sunna, while Hanafis consider […]
Geller: American Academy of Pediatrics and the New York Times sanction FGM
After all, it’s multicultural. In “Sanctioning Barbarity: American Academy of Pediatrics and the New York Times,” at Big Government today, Pamela Geller comments on this story: In what can only be construed as a complete loss of any semblance of goodness and morality in the name of multicultural poison, the most advanced civilization on the […]
FGM: ‘traditional practice’ in 32 countries, of which 29 are OIC States — 3 million girls mutilated worldwide each year, 95% of Egyptians
Comments by David G. Littman, NGO Representative at the UN in Geneva: Association for World Education and World Union for Progressive Judaism Oral statement (from UN webcast above) reproduced verbatim below We decided to speak out again on a “traditional practice”, whose religious links are vociferously denied, despite irrefutable UNICEF facts and figures. FGM (Female […]