Cool. Al-Azhar organized a rally with the help of a German activist aimed at opposing the stupid practice of FGM. BTW in case you didn’t know, FGM has no place in Islam. It’s a stupid cultural practice. (hat tip: Nominally Challenged)
Al-Azhar Stands Against FGM
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Good.
Its a disgusting, un-islamic, sickening practice. Where the Pharohs of old thought it up, I have no idea. But to each his own. We have some weird customs here. we have this ritual or right of passage where a girl has sex with as many men as she can and each man she has relations with gives her a leg braclet, the girl with the most is given like a high status within the tribe.
Alhamdullilah & danke schoen to the German activist:)
Why don’t we ever take the initiative & solve our problems on our own?!!!
Many people here in Sudan have tried to do everything they can regarding this.. But imagine what they got as a reply from! People in Authoroties said that they should BAN discussing such issues becuase these discussions, Forums, workshops etc. includes showing some UP APPROPRIATE materials!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN u belive that! I was like.. what da….. neva mind!
I know exactly how you feel Precious. Our interpretations of Islam have turned it into a prison rather than a force for positive change and the backward elements in our culture just makes it worst. That’s why I respect families like Al-Badri who started Afad university. They helped change things positively even though it was a very difficult upstream swim.
And btw,
“I was like.. what da….. ”
Pleeeeeease finish the sentence… Grrrrr… Oh well, this is where books by prominent Sudanese professors on the dynamics of Sudanese culture come in very handy. They all admit the difficulty in changin such people’s perceptions. However they also provide very good suggestions. The best way to tackle such issues is to convince these people from an Islamic perspective. Give them examples from the Sunnah and Koran. Most will start listening attentively.
Exactly Drima.
The Koran and the Sunnah is the ONLY way to change these societies too many people are illiteratae, and have a fill in the blank style of Islam, they mix their culture and islam, and wholeheartedly label it Islam even though it completly contridicts with Islam
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You make a powerful point. Certainly Islam does not have the market cornered on this error. Since I know Jews and Christians best, I can best address them. Folks read in and pull out what suits their needs. Others seek to manipulate the weaker minded or more naive.
Though I am a religious person, in general, I don’t much trust religious people. The Qur’an or Torah or New Testement…and I have read all or at least parts of them all, have wonderful ideas and also some pretty crazy stuff…but we seek to rationalize the crazy by saying it is metaphor, allegorical, but literal when that suits us.
Sometimes I wonder if you took any long book with some complexity …I don’t know; Fountainhead or 1984, or Lord of the Rings and went to wherever and told folks you had a revelation and this book, the Lord of the Rings…holds all God’s truths. Then when you see crazy shit, you make hadiths, or have Talmudic interpretations or church canons and shove round pegs into square holes and start whipping or killing folks that give you shit about it. Presto…the new religion…hell just as Tom Cruise.
I think we could all sit under puffy clouds and talk about the images we see and attribute all kinds of signs and wonders.
I guess I am saying that I deeply believe in God, but realize I am quite agnostic about much of “his” writings and their editing and interpretation as well. Too bad religion is often just one more thing that divides us.
Peace y’all.
Howie,
I would appear, when it all boils down to it, that ‘religion’ has very little, if anything, to actually do with God, and much more to do with maintaining the power of the professionally religious over the bewildered masses.
This follows for every religion, though to different effect in each case.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT TOPIC THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.
Fgm is a sick ,disgusting,horrible horrendous ignorant crime against females.The woman’s body is the most beautiful. It is unthinkable how a person can chop off something as precious as the parts of a woman’s privates.A woman’s body should NEVER be touched with a knife, Allah (swt) created a woman’s body in its beauty! its like mutilating a beautiful rose.There is nothing healthy,attractive,and beautiful about a mutilated bodypart that went throught FGM. The vagina is the main symbol of womanhood and female sexuality. Not having the parts that every woman is born with and every woman on the face of this planet has will cause someone to feel “unfeminine” “cold” “unattractive” .
anyone who thinks different is sick and brainwashed by ignorant animalistic monsters!!!
these women who agree with spreading the legs of a 4 year old baby girl to mutilate her privates are no better then those sick child molestors who prey on children,and the weakest in society is a little girl.Nothing justifies genital mutilation. In fact, no mutilation is allowed by Islam even in the battlefield. Not only is this procedure unjustifiable, it is brutal, inhumane and in violation of Islam
This sick practice predates Islam and Christianity, it has NO PLACE IN ISLAM. Islam is against supressing a woman’s sexual desire.
*FGM is known to have serious health issues to women and girls, both psychological and physical
*Unhygienic,(NOT CLEAN)
*NOT A PART OF ISLAM
*Severe pain
*sexual dysfunction and low sex drive.
*During childbirth the risk of haemorrhage and infection is greatly increased
*Shock
*Haemorrhage
*uterus, vaginal and pelvic infections
*psychological damage ..not feeling like a real woman
*trauma
*Tetanus or sepsis
*Urine retention
*Ulceration of the genital region and injury to adjacent tissue
*Wound infection
*Urinary infection
*Fever
*Septicaemia
*late menstrual cycle in girl
*Abscesses, dermoid cysts, and keloid scars
*these are only some of the consequences of fgm,there is a whole huge list of more horrible things.
***death
recent studies have shown that females who underwent FGM have difficulties in childbirth,and they gave birth to underweight babies. Alot of babies born to women who underwent FGM have died.
What does Islam say about this?
This sick practice predates Islam and Christianity, it has NO PLACE IN ISLAM. Islam is against supressing a woman’s sexual desire.
Sheikh Omar Ahmed,along with alot of other sheiks said It is a matter of abuse and violation of the female body and is quite clearly forbidden according to Islam,” he told delegates from 13 African countries, Sweden and international bodies such as the World Health Organization.
The Religious Authority, Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah, issued a Fatwa in which he considered that all what causes harm to the soul, body and the sexual abilities of the males or females, as prohibited acts
Islamic law protects a woman’s right to sexual enjoyment during sex with her husband,Islam cares soo much about a woman’s sexual pleasure that a woman has the right to divorce on the grounds that her husband does not provide sexual satisfaction. It follows that Islamic law prohibits clitorodectomy (partial or complete removal of the clitoris) or infibulation (excision of part or all of the external genitalia and stitching/narrowing of the vaginal opening), or any genital mutilation which impairs the woman’s ability to enjoy sexual relations. Islam protects the woman and her body from ignorant nonIslamic customs
Allah(swt) created the clitoris for the sole purpose of generating pleasure. It has no other purpose, the clitoris’ only purpose is to genreate sexual pleasure for a woman. In islam, Sexual relations between a man and his wife is highly encouraged. It is highly encouraged to satisfy your desire with your wife. How is tha tpossible with a mutilated woman? Mutilated genitalia reduce or eliminate a woman’s pleasure during the act of sex. Men complain that the woman is “cold” during sex.
female circumcision is NOT lawful by the Islamic Sharia, and it is NOT a part of the Sunnah of the Prophet (p.).
WE NEED TO EDUCATE THE IGNORANT ,AND SPEAK UP AGAINST THIS SICK ACT.
you will find some sick people who agree with FGM..these sick people still exist. there are people who agree with homosexuality(astugfurallah) and other acts that go against nature and religion. So of course there is a small amount of ignorant misguided individuals that think spreading the legs of a screaming 3 year old girl is okay. These disgusting women who agree with FGM are sooo hurt with what happened to them as children that they want some other little girl to go through what they went through and feel the same pain they did. SICK, people like that who do this to others and say that its okay deserve nothing less than torment in the hellfire
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