Muslim fear of the clitoris

The resulting consultation was tense and dysfunctional. Some parents are evidently beginning to understand the marital concerns of their children. Female genital cutting is believed by some to be one way of achieving this. Actually the country with the largest population of Muslims is Indonesia, not an Arab country but your point is taken. The emotional and psychological ramifications of such bodily assault are also now being appreciated. Reliance of the Traveller. He goes on to state that the 'awra of a man is the area from his navel to his knee although some jurists like Ibn Malik do not include the knee i.

Families may also loose their honor if this tradition is not kept with. For example, in the northeastern regions of Ethiopia and Kenya, which share a border with Somalia, the Somali people practise FGM at around the same rate as they do in Somalia. Archived from the original PDF on 29 October Geography Various forms of FGC is practiced throughout the world, but it is most common in sub-Saharan Africa, in a band stretching East from Senegal to Somalia, as shown on the map. The movement came to be known as Ngaitana "I will circumcise myself" , because to avoid naming their friends the girls said they had cut themselves.

Gerry Mackie has suggested that, because FGM's east-west, north-south distribution in Africa meets in Sudan, infibulation may have begun there with the Meroite civilization c. Shell-Duncan, Bettina June It is a brutal sick tradition that the Politically Correct nutters try to play down because it IS a Muslim tradition, and we don't want to upset the Muslims! Cut, no flesh removed describes a practice known as nicking or pricking, which currently is categorized as Type IV. The Female Circumcision Controversy:

Muslims face towards Mecca and recite verses from the Quran and assume various positions, standing, bending from the waist, on your knees but leaning back on your heels and placing your forehead to the floor. The issue of Ijma' is not without controversy as the various schools of thought have different definitions of what constitutes ijma': The wife of a former Nahdlatul Ulama president, interviewed by Feillard and Marcoes in the s, said FGC prevented sexual "aggressiveness" in young women, while a man knowledgeable in Sundanese traditions said that "if not removed, the upper part of the clitoris would make the girl unable to control her sexuality". MUI's fatwa was put forward to the Ministry of Health as a guidance tool to assist with the development of decrees concerning female circumcision. So why is FGC still practiced in Indonesia if it has no health or cleanliness benefits? The man is considered the head of the family; to many a man, however, this is a poisoned chalice because with leadership comes responsibility. Whereas consanguinity doubtless results in an increased frequency of familial disorders with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance, 10 assessing the relative contribution of consanguinity to the high rates of congenital defect and perinatal mortality among Pakistanis is far from easy.