Senior Muslim Cleric: Universal Female Genital Mutilation ‘Would Be Very Good’ – IOTW Report

Senior Muslim Cleric: Universal Female Genital Mutilation ‘Would Be Very Good’

Breitbart: A senior Muslim cleric in Russia has suggested that universal female genital mutilation (FGM) would be a positive development, after a rights group released a report denouncing the practice earlier this week.

Female genital mutilation does not pose health risks and “does not contradict the dogmas of Islam,” said Mufti Ismail Berdiyev, the head of the North Caucasus Muslim Coordination Center.

Berdiyev said Wednesday that if FGM “could be applied to all women, that would be very good.” FGM does not stop women from fulfilling their ordained role of motherhood, he added, and if all women were circumcised, “there would be less fornication.”  MORE

14 Comments on Senior Muslim Cleric: Universal Female Genital Mutilation ‘Would Be Very Good’

  1. You first, Mr Cleric. Leadership by example. Show us what it’s like to have your genital mutulated, and tell us how much you like it, how much it improves your life.

  2. As a long-time observer of Christendom, I find the basic mindset behind this is similar to that of many Pentecostal/Assembly of God types in the U.S.

    You’ve seen them even if you had no clue who they are: the women and girls are instructed to wear no makeup, keep the hair up in buns and typically wear only long denim skirts, while their men go around in completely secular and modern (if not noticeably hip and flashy) clothing.

    While the Bible does instruct women to dress modestly, I believe the unspoken mindset here is that it’s the woman’s fault if a man sin with lust…so we need to fix the women, or blame them if the men fail. Just as it is with Islam’s FGM.

    No, I’m not equating pentecostals with Mohammedans — just noting that there seems to be a foundational similarity of thinking there, in that both practices are the males’ way of deflecting responsibility for their own sin by blaming and then “fixing” the womenfolk.

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