Good grief... It doesn't matter how far anything goes back, but what matters is if it is still in practice today, and if it is still obeyed and believed today.
Sadly it is, and there's a healthy movement to stamp it out.
But the fact remains it has NOTHING to do with any religion, and never did. What that tells us is that the poster trying to make that ass-ociation is blatantly dishonest. A liar.
The poster is trying to make an association between religious tenants or beliefs, and the acts described in the mutilation's ?? What would it fall under or be categorized as ??
The mutilations are the religious beliefs...………………..Islam is hate to women
For about the 10th time, genital mutilation is NOT Muslim. It occurs in many other cultures.
What cultures mutilate their wives noses by removing them so they have to hide behind a burka
Answer the Muslim culture
Why are you defending female mutilations?
Do you hate women?
**** YOU, Cult of Ignorance troll.
What cultures practice FGM?
Ancient nomadic ones largely in central Africa but spread worldwide. It follows a geographic pattern, not a religious one.
For instance it's common in West Africa in Guinea, Sierra Leone and western Mali, but then tapers off as you go east in Mali.
Go north from there and it's not found in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria or Libya. Yet all these countries are predominantly Muslim. Continue east and you find it again in Egypt, where it's practiced by BOTH Muslims AND Coptic Christians. Jump past the Red Sea into Saudi Arabia and it doesn't exist anymore. Then go south and you find it widespread in Tanzania and Uganda, where Christianism predominates.
Why is that Dumbass? Because the ancient cultural tradition spread of FGM took a different path than the spread of Islam did, DUMBASS. That's because they're Two Different Things.
Is there any Christian prescription for FGM? No? Then perhaps you'd like to essplain to the class what the **** it's doing in Uganda. Perhaps you'd also care to essplain why the Coptic Christians are doing it. When you get done that, perhaps you'd like to do a report on how the Emberá people, an indigenous Native American tribe in what is now Colombia, still do it to this day, having had no contact with either Islam OR Christianism.
Let's see what the Bible says about it.
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That was quick. Now let's check the Quran:
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Well, that's a match. Wanna see it again?
But say, speaking of geography, let's bring it home, shall we?
>> Gynaecologists in 19th-century Europe and the United States removed the clitoris to treat insanity and masturbation.
[160] A British doctor, Robert Thomas, suggested clitoridectomy as a cure for
nymphomania in 1813.
[161][162] The first reported clitoridectomy in the West, described in
The Lancet in 1825, was performed in 1822 in Berlin by
Karl Ferdinand von Graefe on a 15-year-old girl who was masturbating excessively.
[161][163]
Isaac Baker Brown, an English gynaecologist, president of the
Medical Society of London and co-founder in 1845 of
St. Mary's Hospital, believed that masturbation, or "unnatural irritation" of the clitoris, caused
hysteria, spinal irritation, fits, idiocy, mania and death.
[163][164] He therefore "set to work to remove the clitoris whenever he had the opportunity of doing so", according to his obituary.
[165] Brown performed several clitoridectomies between 1859 and 1866.
[164] In the United States,
J. Marion Sims followed Brown's work and in 1862 slit the
neck of a woman's uterus and amputated her clitoris, "for the relief of the nervous or hysterical condition as recommended by Baker Brown".
[166] When Brown published his views in
On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females (1866), doctors in London accused him of quackery and expelled him from the
Obstetrical Society.
[167][164][168]
Later in the 19th century, A. J. Bloch, a surgeon in New Orleans, removed the clitoris of a two-year-old girl who was reportedly masturbating.
[169]According to a 1985 paper in the
Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, clitoridectomy was performed in the United States into the 1960s to treat hysteria, erotomania and lesbianism.
[170] From the mid-1950s,
James Burt, a gynaecologist in Dayton, Ohio, performed non-standard repairs of
episiotomies after childbirth, adding
more stitches to make the vaginal opening smaller. From 1966 until
1989, he performed "love surgery" by cutting women's
pubococcygeus muscle, repositioning the vagina and urethra, and removing the clitoral hood, thereby making their genital area more appropriate, in his view, for intercourse in the
missionary position.
[171] "Women are structurally inadequate for intercourse," he wrote; he said he would turn them into "horny little mice".
[172] In the 1960s and 1970s he performed these procedures without consent while repairing episiotomies and performing hysterectomies and other surgery; he said he had performed a variation of them on 4,000 women by 1975.
[171] Following complaints, he was required in 1989 to stop practicing medicine in the United States.
[173] << -- Wiki
As recently as
1989, Dipshit.
Thirty years ago. A decade
after Gloria Steinem brought it to the Western world's attention in Ms Magazine.
Care to go look up the religions of Robert Thomas, Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, Isaac Baker Brown, J. Marion Sims, A.J. Bloch, James Burt, et al? You know, to see if they were secret "Muslims" out to spread their vile religion via mutilations?
You've already been told this, Dipwad. FGM has nothing to do with ANY religion; it has EVERYTHING to do with patriarchy, with men so scared shitless of women that they want to cut them up. It's a product of Ignorance, and all your brand of ignorance does is prolong it, so again to return to the original point, **** YOU. And the shitbag of ignorance you rode in on.
