The latest Sunni problem: Female Genital Mutilation... 
http://pamelageller.com/2010/12/imam-female-genital-mutilation-recommended-by-islam.html/
"The Imam of Hajji Osman Alaf Mosque in Iraqi Kurdistan’s second largest city, Sulaimaniyah, has told his followers that anyone who believes female circumcision is not a recommendation from the prophet Mohammed is “ignorant.” -"
“When men and women have intercourse, their sexual organs should be circumcised and clean,” he quoted Prophet Mohammed as saying.
He added that practicing a Sunnah act is “good,” but that not practicing it is “not sinful.” But in some cultures, including among some Kurds, uncircumcised women are regarded as unclean and are not allowed to cook.|
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2010/12/ima...commended-by-islam.html/#sthash.dEPXLvx2.dpuf
http://www.islam-watch.org/autho"rs/143-roddy/890-one-sunni-school-of-sharia-law-supports-female-genital-mutilation.html
"While FGM certainly is a custom that does predate at least Christianity and Islam, and possibly Judaism, it was made a part of one Sunni schools of Sharia law – namely the Shafi'i School. FGM is, thus, very much a part of Islam, because the Shafi'i is the dominant school of Sharia in a number of mostly Muslim countries, and is the second most popular Sunni school overall after the Hanafi."
"This 2007 salon.com article points out that over 95% of Egyptian women are subjected to FGM.The Shafi'i school's support for FGM is also why an imam in Kurdistan, where the Shafi'i school is dominant, said in a 2011 sermon that mutilating women's genitals was obligatory."
"more than 60% of Kurdish women are subjected to FGM."
"Yes, Female genitals mutilation …..many Muslims would approve off it …secretly and publicly
It is a way to insure the honor of Muslim men "
http://billmuehlenberg.com/2013/06/10/islam-and-female-genital-mutilation/
Tahara (female circumcision) is quite widespread in Islam, and has the backing of many even so-called moderate Muslim leaders and scholars. Consider for example Dr Muhammad al-Mussayar from the Al-Azhar University in Cairo:
“All jurisprudents since the advent of Islam and for fourteen centuries or more, are in consensus that female circumcision is permitted in Islam. But they were divided as to its status in the sharia. Some said that female circumcision is required by the sharia, just like male circumcision. Some said this is a mainstream practice, while others said that it is a noble act.”
he Reliance of the Traveller, a respected manual of Shafi’i jurisprudence, states ‘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 clitoris’.”
“Female circumcision is commonly practiced among Indonesian Muslims, where the Shafi’i’ school predominates, such as Egypt, southern Arabia, Bahrain, Kurdistan, Somalia, Brunei, and Malaysia, as well as Indonesia.”
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (from whom the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence takes its name) quotes Muhammed as saying ‘Circumcision is a law for men and a preservation of honour for women’.”
"with young girls dying as a result. We even have this tragic story emerging in today’s media: “A thirteen-year-old child died Thursday evening while being circumcised at a private clinic in a village of the Nile Delta governorate of Daqahliya. "
"So while FGM does indeed predate Islam, it has become a big part of Islam in various places. And with girls still being tortured and killed by those who practice it, it is time to say enough is enough."
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/05/female-genital-mutilation-is-part-of-the-sunna-of-the-prophet/
"Circumcision is part of the Sunna of the Prophet. We used to bring a daya, and she would circumcise the children, but when the role of the daya was abolished, we stopped. Now we take our children to the doctor, and he circumcises them."
"The Prophet said that the men go and wage Jihad for a year. He said that girls should be circumcised so they can bear it for a whole year until the men return. […]"
"The Prophet said that circumcision is obligatory for men, and is noble for women. This means that for the sake of her honor, a woman can be circumcised. "
When a girl is taken — usually by her mother — to a free circumcision event held each spring in Bandung, Indonesia, she is handed over to a small group of women who, swiftly and yet with apparent affection, cut off a small piece of her genitals. Sponsored by the Assalaam Foundation, an Islamic educational and social-services organization, circumcisions take place in a prayer center or an emptied-out elementary-school classroom where desks are pushed together and covered with sheets and a pillow to serve as makeshift beds. The procedure takes several minutes. There is little blood involved. Afterward, the girl’s genital area is swabbed with the antiseptic Betadine. She is then helped back into her underwear and returned to a waiting area, where she’s given a small, celebratory gift — some fruit or a donated piece of clothing — and offered a cup of milk for refreshment. She has now joined a quiet majority in Indonesia, where, according to a 2003 study by the Population Council, an international research group, 96 percent of families surveyed reported that their daughters had undergone some form of circumcision by the time they reached 14.
The Assalaam Foundation runs several schools and a mosque in Bandung, Indonesia’s third-largest city and the capital of West Java. The photographer Stephanie Sinclair was taken to the circumcision event by a reproductive-health observer from Jakarta and allowed to spend several hours there. Over the course of that Sunday morning, more than 200 girls were circumcised, many of them appearing to be under the age of 5.
According to Lukman Hakim, the foundation’s chairman of social services, there are three “benefits” to circumcising girls.
“One, it will stabilize her libido,” he said through an interpreter. “Two, it will make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her husband. And three, it will balance her psychology.”
http://sheikyermami.com/2012/04/fem...-is-part-of-the-sunna-of-the-prophet-part-ii/
Despite what the HHS claims, FGM is in fact associated with Islam, is supported in contemporary interpretation of Islamic scripture and has been endorsed by Islamic religious leaders. Shariah law manuals require and support the practice.
One of the most widely read Shariah law texts is Reliance of the Traveler: A ClassicManual of Islamic Sacred Law.
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This book was translated into English in 1991. It has been endorsed by the President of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and the President of the Fiqh Council of North America, as well as Al Azhar Research Academy in Cairo, Egypt, the Sunni Islamic world’s foremost educational institution.
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On page 59 of Reliance one finds this passage:
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http://europenews.dk/en/node/62326
"because of the ferocious uprising it sparked among Islamic clerics, who fervently pointed to Islamic teachings to make sure this crime against women remained firm in place.
And it is clear, of course, why FGM is so important and crucial to Islam; crippling women’s sexuality solidifies the misogynist structures of Islamic gender apartheid. Keeping FGM legitimized and institutionalized helps keep women subjugated and caged. By amputating the clitoris, Islam’s mutilators succeed in maiming the woman’s sexual desire and pleasure, which, in the morbid Islamic mindset, reduces the chances that she will ever toy with the horrifying notions (for Islam) of autonomy, equality and self-determination.
But how can we possibly help Muslim girls if our society forbids us to confront this Islamic crime and the theology in which it is rooted? And that’s where we tragically stand: while millions of young Muslim girls suffer the mutilating barbarity of female genital mutilation in the Islamic world every year"
I fully expect to be called an Islamophobe again but this barbaric practice is happening with alarming regularity in Sunni areas but...
http://www.exmuslim.org/genital-mutilation-of-women-an-islamic-practice.html
"Through contact with the West, Muslims are being confronted with elements from their religion, the Islamic faith, that are clearly contrary to the UDHR. Instead of admitting that Muhammad did indeed spread doctrine that in many aspects is unacceptable in the modern world, Muslims deny this obvious truth and reality. Of course, this denial does nothing to make these elements disappear.
A situation is thus created whereby these elements that prove less savoury to a Western public are being softened and have their prickly edges rounded off by the studied means of rhetorical subterfuge and sophistry, at least in such cases where the critics of such practices are not simply denounced as racists, Islamophobes, dispensers of hatred versus Islam, and the like. "
Sunni Muslims can pretend that FGM does not happen in their faith but it does; with alarming regularity...
http://pamelageller.com/2010/12/imam-female-genital-mutilation-recommended-by-islam.html/
"The Imam of Hajji Osman Alaf Mosque in Iraqi Kurdistan’s second largest city, Sulaimaniyah, has told his followers that anyone who believes female circumcision is not a recommendation from the prophet Mohammed is “ignorant.” -"
“When men and women have intercourse, their sexual organs should be circumcised and clean,” he quoted Prophet Mohammed as saying.
He added that practicing a Sunnah act is “good,” but that not practicing it is “not sinful.” But in some cultures, including among some Kurds, uncircumcised women are regarded as unclean and are not allowed to cook.|
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2010/12/ima...commended-by-islam.html/#sthash.dEPXLvx2.dpuf
http://www.islam-watch.org/autho"rs/143-roddy/890-one-sunni-school-of-sharia-law-supports-female-genital-mutilation.html
"While FGM certainly is a custom that does predate at least Christianity and Islam, and possibly Judaism, it was made a part of one Sunni schools of Sharia law – namely the Shafi'i School. FGM is, thus, very much a part of Islam, because the Shafi'i is the dominant school of Sharia in a number of mostly Muslim countries, and is the second most popular Sunni school overall after the Hanafi."
"This 2007 salon.com article points out that over 95% of Egyptian women are subjected to FGM.The Shafi'i school's support for FGM is also why an imam in Kurdistan, where the Shafi'i school is dominant, said in a 2011 sermon that mutilating women's genitals was obligatory."
"more than 60% of Kurdish women are subjected to FGM."
"Yes, Female genitals mutilation …..many Muslims would approve off it …secretly and publicly
It is a way to insure the honor of Muslim men "
http://billmuehlenberg.com/2013/06/10/islam-and-female-genital-mutilation/
Tahara (female circumcision) is quite widespread in Islam, and has the backing of many even so-called moderate Muslim leaders and scholars. Consider for example Dr Muhammad al-Mussayar from the Al-Azhar University in Cairo:
“All jurisprudents since the advent of Islam and for fourteen centuries or more, are in consensus that female circumcision is permitted in Islam. But they were divided as to its status in the sharia. Some said that female circumcision is required by the sharia, just like male circumcision. Some said this is a mainstream practice, while others said that it is a noble act.”
he Reliance of the Traveller, a respected manual of Shafi’i jurisprudence, states ‘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 clitoris’.”
“Female circumcision is commonly practiced among Indonesian Muslims, where the Shafi’i’ school predominates, such as Egypt, southern Arabia, Bahrain, Kurdistan, Somalia, Brunei, and Malaysia, as well as Indonesia.”
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (from whom the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence takes its name) quotes Muhammed as saying ‘Circumcision is a law for men and a preservation of honour for women’.”
"with young girls dying as a result. We even have this tragic story emerging in today’s media: “A thirteen-year-old child died Thursday evening while being circumcised at a private clinic in a village of the Nile Delta governorate of Daqahliya. "
"So while FGM does indeed predate Islam, it has become a big part of Islam in various places. And with girls still being tortured and killed by those who practice it, it is time to say enough is enough."
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/05/female-genital-mutilation-is-part-of-the-sunna-of-the-prophet/
"Circumcision is part of the Sunna of the Prophet. We used to bring a daya, and she would circumcise the children, but when the role of the daya was abolished, we stopped. Now we take our children to the doctor, and he circumcises them."
"The Prophet said that the men go and wage Jihad for a year. He said that girls should be circumcised so they can bear it for a whole year until the men return. […]"
"The Prophet said that circumcision is obligatory for men, and is noble for women. This means that for the sake of her honor, a woman can be circumcised. "
When a girl is taken — usually by her mother — to a free circumcision event held each spring in Bandung, Indonesia, she is handed over to a small group of women who, swiftly and yet with apparent affection, cut off a small piece of her genitals. Sponsored by the Assalaam Foundation, an Islamic educational and social-services organization, circumcisions take place in a prayer center or an emptied-out elementary-school classroom where desks are pushed together and covered with sheets and a pillow to serve as makeshift beds. The procedure takes several minutes. There is little blood involved. Afterward, the girl’s genital area is swabbed with the antiseptic Betadine. She is then helped back into her underwear and returned to a waiting area, where she’s given a small, celebratory gift — some fruit or a donated piece of clothing — and offered a cup of milk for refreshment. She has now joined a quiet majority in Indonesia, where, according to a 2003 study by the Population Council, an international research group, 96 percent of families surveyed reported that their daughters had undergone some form of circumcision by the time they reached 14.
The Assalaam Foundation runs several schools and a mosque in Bandung, Indonesia’s third-largest city and the capital of West Java. The photographer Stephanie Sinclair was taken to the circumcision event by a reproductive-health observer from Jakarta and allowed to spend several hours there. Over the course of that Sunday morning, more than 200 girls were circumcised, many of them appearing to be under the age of 5.
According to Lukman Hakim, the foundation’s chairman of social services, there are three “benefits” to circumcising girls.
“One, it will stabilize her libido,” he said through an interpreter. “Two, it will make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her husband. And three, it will balance her psychology.”
http://sheikyermami.com/2012/04/fem...-is-part-of-the-sunna-of-the-prophet-part-ii/
Despite what the HHS claims, FGM is in fact associated with Islam, is supported in contemporary interpretation of Islamic scripture and has been endorsed by Islamic religious leaders. Shariah law manuals require and support the practice.
One of the most widely read Shariah law texts is Reliance of the Traveler: A ClassicManual of Islamic Sacred Law.
.
This book was translated into English in 1991. It has been endorsed by the President of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and the President of the Fiqh Council of North America, as well as Al Azhar Research Academy in Cairo, Egypt, the Sunni Islamic world’s foremost educational institution.
.
On page 59 of Reliance one finds this passage:
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e4.3 Â Â 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.)
As an explanation, there are several schools of Shariah jurisprudence, known as “fiqhs.” As the passage above explains, for some female “circumcision” is “obligatory.” For another it is considered “sunna.” For those who are not familiar with the term, sunna in the context of Shariah means a custom or norm established by practice, example, decision or tradition of the prophet Mohammed. As a source of Islamic law, the sunna of the prophet Mohammed is second in importance only to the Quran itself.
Only click on this link if you want to be deeply disturbed. This is what they are doing to these poor girls...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=y0NuCMKaRpY
As an explanation, there are several schools of Shariah jurisprudence, known as “fiqhs.” As the passage above explains, for some female “circumcision” is “obligatory.” For another it is considered “sunna.” For those who are not familiar with the term, sunna in the context of Shariah means a custom or norm established by practice, example, decision or tradition of the prophet Mohammed. As a source of Islamic law, the sunna of the prophet Mohammed is second in importance only to the Quran itself.
Only click on this link if you want to be deeply disturbed. This is what they are doing to these poor girls...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=y0NuCMKaRpY
http://europenews.dk/en/node/62326
"because of the ferocious uprising it sparked among Islamic clerics, who fervently pointed to Islamic teachings to make sure this crime against women remained firm in place.
And it is clear, of course, why FGM is so important and crucial to Islam; crippling women’s sexuality solidifies the misogynist structures of Islamic gender apartheid. Keeping FGM legitimized and institutionalized helps keep women subjugated and caged. By amputating the clitoris, Islam’s mutilators succeed in maiming the woman’s sexual desire and pleasure, which, in the morbid Islamic mindset, reduces the chances that she will ever toy with the horrifying notions (for Islam) of autonomy, equality and self-determination.
But how can we possibly help Muslim girls if our society forbids us to confront this Islamic crime and the theology in which it is rooted? And that’s where we tragically stand: while millions of young Muslim girls suffer the mutilating barbarity of female genital mutilation in the Islamic world every year"
I fully expect to be called an Islamophobe again but this barbaric practice is happening with alarming regularity in Sunni areas but...
http://www.exmuslim.org/genital-mutilation-of-women-an-islamic-practice.html
"Through contact with the West, Muslims are being confronted with elements from their religion, the Islamic faith, that are clearly contrary to the UDHR. Instead of admitting that Muhammad did indeed spread doctrine that in many aspects is unacceptable in the modern world, Muslims deny this obvious truth and reality. Of course, this denial does nothing to make these elements disappear.
A situation is thus created whereby these elements that prove less savoury to a Western public are being softened and have their prickly edges rounded off by the studied means of rhetorical subterfuge and sophistry, at least in such cases where the critics of such practices are not simply denounced as racists, Islamophobes, dispensers of hatred versus Islam, and the like. "
Sunni Muslims can pretend that FGM does not happen in their faith but it does; with alarming regularity...
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