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Female Genital Mutilation and Islamic Social Norms
By Paul Sutliff
February 15, 2020
On January 30th of this year, a 12-year-old girl in Egypt died
as a result of her parents having Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) performed on
her. Egypt has had a law outlawing the practice since 2008. The parents have
been charged. This law was written to protect females because Islamic
social norms permit and encourage this practice.
According to Ian Askew, World Health
Organization Director for the Department of Reproductive Health and Research:
FGM describes all procedures that
involve the partial or total removal of external genitalia or other injury to
the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. It has no health
benefits.
More than 200 million girls and
women alive today are living with FGM and many are at risk of suffering the
associated negative health consequences as a result.
These include death, severe
bleeding and problems urinating. Longer-term consequences range from
cysts and infections to complications in childbirth and increased risk of
newborn deaths.
FGM is a grave violation of the
human rights of girls and women.
Another term used for FGM is female circumcision. Some
countries prefer the term FGC, as it is seen as “more
neutral.” (The “C” being a reference to “cutting.”) This “more neutral” term allows their
medical personnel to package FGM into the “birth package.” Ebony Ridell Bamber, the head of
advocacy and policy at Orchid Project, a UK-based NGO working towards ending
FGM, states that. "It really contributes to legitimizing and
entrenching the practice even further."
In Islam, legitimization comes when shariah, Islamic law,
endorses and promotes a practice. Under shariah, female circumcision is
required of Muslim females. This is documented in Reliance of the Traveller:
e4.3 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 it a mere courtesy to the husband.)"
Islamic scholars have been found
using this piece to declare to non-Muslims that shariah does not agree with
FGM, going so far as to claim it is unIslamic if carried out to the extreme and
totally removing the clitoris:
Female circumcision, known pejoratively in its extreme form
as female genital mutilation or cutting, is not prescribed in the Quran and
there are no authentic prophetic traditions recommending the practice.
The basis in Islamic law is that it is not permissible to cause bodily
harm and any such practice of female circumcision proven to be harmful would be
unlawful.
This is very deceptive. Let’s look at what the
abbreviations mean in the above section of shariah:
A: ... comment by Sheikh 'Abd
al-Wakil Durubi
Ar. Arabic
n: ... remark by the
translator
O: ... excerpt from the commentary
of Sheikh 'Umar Barakat
Taking the commentary of the translator out, the passage now
reads:
e4. 3 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.
Many other hadiths also back up the obligation for FGM under
Shariah. For example:
·
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Vol. 1
Book 1 #109
Aishah narrated that: the Prophet
said: "When the circumcised meets the circumcised then Ghusl [full-body
ritual purification] is required."
Yahya related to me from Malik
from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al- Musayyab that Umar ibn al-Khattab and Uthman
ibn Affan and A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, used to say, "When the circumcised part touches the circumcised
part, ghusl is obligatory."
·
Sahih al-Bukhari 6599, 6600
Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger
said, "No child is born but has the Islamic Faith, but its parents turn it
into a Jew or a Christian. It is as you help the animals give birth.
Do you find among their offspring a mutilated one before you mutilate
them yourself.”
To say that FGM only happens in third-world countries
ignores the sad and sorry truth that several countries have passed laws
forbidding this cruelty to their children. Egypt passed a law against FGM in 2008 and was
amended in 2016. But by 2015, a “government survey discovered that 87% of
Egyptian women and girls aged between 15 and 49 have been mutilated, or as the
Egyptian government put it, “circumcised.”
February 6th was the International Day of Zero
Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. This annual day of awareness was commemorated this year by the German news source DW.com’s article, “Female genital mutilation feels 'like living in a dead body'
by Shadia Abdelmoneim, which describes how a midwife performed FGM on her
without her consent after the birth of her third child in Sudan:
It led to a lengthy period of shock
thereafter where she found it difficult to trust anybody, but Shadia also
vividly recalls the moment she realized what had happened.
"I wanted to go to the toilet,
but something wasn't right. I couldn't walk and was in considerable pain.
When I saw what she had done, I was shocked. She'd cut everything
open and then sewn it closed. I had no idea what to do.”
Shadia, already fighting against
female genital mutilation and for women's rights as an activist in Sudan, was
in her mid 30s at the time. She started living in a constant state of
fear for her three daughters; she could barely let them out of her sight.
"How could women do something
like that to one another, how?" she asks, her eyes welling up with tears.
"Being circumcised is like living in a dead body.”
Dr. Cornelia Strunz, who works at the Desert Flower
Center, met Shadia when she came to the center for help, said Shadia needed
surgery to help her live with this mutilation. According to Dr. Strunz, there are many
possible problems that result from FGM.
Many women have problems emptying
their bladder after FGM. Menstrual blood can't drain properly. For
some, sex becomes practically impossible. Women can also develop fistulas
-- connections between two body parts which should not exist at all in normal
circumstances. One example would be a link between the vagina and rectum,
leading to them passing stools through the vagina. Obviously, that's not
very easy to live with.
Social norms that allow for FGM conflict with several social
norms of Western civilization. It denies a women’s rights to have control
over her own body, as it is a requirement under shariah. It destroys a
woman’s ability to enjoy partaking in sexual activity when the woman
marries. This makes the act a duty and not a pleasure. The act itself
violates the Hippocratic Oath “to do no harm.” In countries where FGM is
banned, parents/guardians who have this done to their own daughters are denying
the validity of laws made by men.
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