Afroz Ali & the ‘divinely ordained right of a woman’ to enjoy genital mutilation

Australia:

Clit-Cutting Expert Afroz Ali is “Setting the Record Straight” About Female Circumcision & Genital Mutilation: its a divinely ordained right of a woman, but it has “nothing to do with Islam”.

Remember that, next time you’re spreading false information as part of an agenda to malign religions, and indeed Islam, infidels!

Muslim cleric says, “Islamic law permits by definition, by prophetic statement and by practice female circumcision”

Islamic apologists in the West maintain that female genital mutilation has nothing to do with Islam, and that only greasy Islamophobes think otherwise. But eventually Muslims themselves get around to vindicating every last charge that greasy Islamophobes have ever made about Islamic belief and practice.

“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

“Female circumcision is a right, says imam,” by Rachel Baxendale for The Australian, December 24 (thanks to JW):

A MUSLIM leader and outspoken opponent of female genital mutilation says female circumcision, which he defines as the partial removal of the clitoral hood, is not only an utterly distinct practice, but the “divinely ordained right of a woman” under Islam.Sydney-based Al-Ghazzali Centre for Islamic Sciences and Human Development founder and president, Imam Afroz Ali, appeared on the ABC’s 7:30 program in October, condemning female genital mutilation and saying he had been told by community members of its occurrence in Australia.

But Imam Afroz defines female circumcision and female genital mutilation as “two very different, and unrelated, kinds of acts; the former being permissible and the latter completely forbidden under Islamic law”.

The imam, who was yesterday unable to be contacted, made the argument in a paper entitled Mutilating Facts: Setting the Record Straight About Female Circumcision & Genital Mutilation, published this year on his SeekersGuidance website.
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“Islamic law permits by definition, by prophetic statement and by practice female circumcision,” he wrote. “The definition under Islamic law for female circumcision is exclusively the removal of the uppermost extra skin at the top of the clitoral glans.

“Female circumcision in its legitimate form is a personal and human right of a woman; genital mutilation is a horrible crime.”

Imam Afroz indicated he believed the practice should only be performed on post-pubescent women. The imam argued his definition of female circumcision was the same as labiaplasty, or genital cosmetic surgery, which was legal in Australia.

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists vice-president Ajay Rane said he had three main concerns about Imam Afroz’s paper.

“Firstly, I felt that there was confusion in the article itself. On the one hand, he’s saying female circumcision is supposed to be a woman’s right in Islam, on the other, he’s saying it’s a cultural thing,” he said. “The second issue is that of consent, and the third is who does these procedures?

“How do you train them to understand the difference between removal of a small and large amount? How do you control that?”…

Indeed.

Governments, service providers, authorities and the media must refrain from misguiding the public by spreading false information as part of an agenda to malign religions, and indeed Islam. (Don’t you dare criticise Islam, infidel! Feel free to censor yourself!)

They need to redefine their intentions and purposes, which must solely be for the care and concern for the women and children who are suffering from criminal malpractice of what is commonly referred to as female circumcision.

(Not circumcision: genital mutilation.)

Global organisations like the United Nations should not have their websites optimised to search engines where a person seeks information on female circumcision but gets directed to pages on genital mutilation; this is grossly irresponsible and contrary to helping the victims themselves. Female circumcision in its legitimate form is a personal and human right of a woman; genital mutilation is a horrible crime. We must inform the people of the difference.

(No grown woman in her right mind would want her clitoris removed. The good imam is welcome to sell ”information” dawa till the cows come home, but Australia is not under sharia and our law is the law of the land.)

In summary, female circumcision under Islamic Law is not different to the legally practised procedures called labiaplasty (or labioplasty) and clitoral hoodectomy (or clitoridotomy) under secular laws of nations like Australia, UK and USA. Islamic Law limits such a procedure to a female adult who may experience mild or severe clitoral phimosis, i.e., formation of extra skin as prepuce and connecting labia which affects sexual arousal, either through a lack of clitoral stimulation due to the heavy and tight layer of extra skin, or through unintended sexual arousal through friction when, for example, a female would merely be walking or running.

(Under Mohammedan law, a 9-year old is a ‘female adult’. Here again we see that the imam is lying. We have plenty of evidence to prove that one, two and three year old girls have their clitorises cut out in Indonesia, where the Shafi school of Islam is dominant.)

From Islam’s point of view, female circumcision is not only a human right; it is a Divinely Ordained right of a woman. And if it helps the sceptic, it may be worth reflecting that we as humans evolve in our knowledge and understanding, and it is for that very reason God The Creator has revealed Laws and Guidelines so that the human does not have to wander in darkness for centuries before being enlightened with knowledge which help in the wellbeing of the human.

Cut out the clitoris and let the sunshine in? Hell no. Get stuffed, imam. No God ever demanded a people to cut the clitoris out of their females, only Satan himself would invent something like that.