Calgary Muslim website has raised eyebrows by making a lengthy pitch for female circumcision and calling it a clarification of “how Misogynists and Feminists are feeding upon each other to denigrate an Islamic practice that brings untold benefits to women.” The essay, written by Asiff Husein, advocates only removing the prepuce, or layer of skin, over the clitoris, and calls it similar to taking off the foreskin in male circumcision. It also blames the “Jewish controlled media” for anti-FGM attitudes.
Women and girls living with FGM have experienced a harmful practice. Experience of FGM increases the short and long term health risks to women and girls and is unacceptable from a human rights and health perspective. The World Health Organization (WHO) lists several long-term health risks of female genital mutilation (FGM): pain, infections, painful urination, obstetric complications, psychological consequences. … And there are NO aesthetic or health benefits. All forms of female genital cutting have been outlawed in Canada since 1997.
The author wrote about Jews: “This media machine (Jewish controlled media) works in different ways. For one thing, it will say that Islam advocates genitally mutilating women to curb their sexuality, citing examples of barbaric forms of FGM practiced in sub-Saharan Africa, thereby associating Islam with a misogynistic attitude.” “It is in the interests of the Jews to criticize female circumcision while promoting male circumcision. Why? Because male circumcision is a Jewish practice and female circumcision is not…” he added.
Circumcision should be normal because, according to Husein, it is similar to cutting the nails:
“Five are the acts of fitra: circumcision, removing the pubes, clipping the moustache, cutting the nails, plucking the hair under the armpits (Sahih Bukhari & Muslim). Circumcision, like the other fitra acts involving the removal of redundant outgrowths that contribute to uncleanliness, takes the human body to a more perfect state desired by God, which is why in the first place it is called an act that is in accord with the fitra.”
“The Muslims in Calgary website lists three local mosques, one of which hosts the Muslim Council of Calgary, on its contacts page. The council, the 80,000-strong community’s elected body, said it actually has nothing to do with the site, and condemned the Jewish references in the article. The website is operated by individuals who are in an ‘adversarial relationship’ with the council, the statement said,” the National Post writes.
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