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A young Member of Parliament in India found himself in hot soup for raking up a controversy when an old retweet of his was exhumed by his ideological opponents. Quoting Canadian journalist Tarek Fatah, the first-time parliamentarian had once tweeted, “95% Arab women have never had an orgasm in the last few hundred years! Every mother has produced kids as an act of sex and not love.” The resurfacing of the archived statement ignited an online furor, albeit in the wrong direction. MP Tejasvi Surya was panned by feminists for his “insensitive and racial slur.” However, not a single of these triggered voices condemned the pre-medieval practice that not only scars young girls for life, but also denies them an essential right and pleasure through the years of adulthood, not only among Arab women but other Muslim women as well, along with some non-Muslim women in majority-Muslim areas.
According to the World Health Organization, “FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. It is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children. The practice also violates a person’s rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death.”
Also known as khafz or khatna, the practice is alive and well in India within the Bohra Muslim community. Quite an irony, as the Bohra community is known to be the most liberal and open among all the sects of Islam thriving in the country. Even worse, Mumbai, a metropolitan advanced city of India, the financial capital of the country, has become the hub for the practice of female genital mutilation. Not only do Muslims from the Bohra community in India frequent its practitioners, but after having legal actions begun against them in Australia and the USA over this practice, Bohra expats from other countries have started to crowd into Mumbai to get their little girls cut.
At times these girls are promised a piece of candy, at times a movie featuring their favourite stars, at times a fun outing. The deceit unravels itself as the girl child is ushered into a dingy, dark room through a grimy gully in an inconspicuous corner of the city. She is pinned to a dirty bed, her pants are forced down and the tiny part of her body that, in due course, could have led her into experiencing the greatest pleasures of womanhood is chopped off with knives, blades, or anything sharp and long enough to slit off the clitoris. In most cases, female genital mutation is carried out by older women or untrained midwives with scant regard for personal hygiene and sanitation of the surroundings. The severed flesh is then tossed in a garbage bin, in the name of culture, morality, uprightness and modesty.
Members of the Bohra Muslim community often slander the clitoris as “haraam ki boti.” This Hindi epithet translates to “bastardly flesh” and basically mans “source of sin.” The appalling and discriminatory idea inspiring the practice has been passed on unchallenged through centuries of patriarchy. They fear that if a woman discovered the pleasure of orgasm, in which the clitoris has the paramount part to play, she may go “astray.” She could set out on adventurous explorations to find pleasure outside or before marriage, and bring “dishonour” to her family and to the community.
India, which, with an exhaustive struggle against Islamist fundamentalists engendered by liberals and leftists, succeeded in criminalizing the Triple-Talak, or the Islamic practice of easy divorce for men, still does not have any laws to protect girls as young as six, seven, eight or nine years old against the excruciating and traumatic experience of losing a part of their body, despite female genital mutilation being declared a human rights violation by the United Nations.
“I don’t think I ever enjoyed sex in my marriage. I often wonder what it would have been like if I hadn’t been cut. The sad part is I will never know,” a woman from the Bohra Muslim community from Mumbai shared with a leading news daily, while requesting anonymity.
Feminists who wax eloquent against breast-feeding male babies as a violation of the “my body my choice” protocol have no courage to speak against slicing and stitching the private parts of young girls without their consent, because to do so would “hurt” the Muslim demography they strive desperately to appease and collaborate with. And this, dear readers, is why the third-wave of modern feminism is a joke.
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According to the World Health Organization, “FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. It is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children. The practice also violates a person’s rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death.”
Also known as khafz or khatna, the practice is alive and well in India within the Bohra Muslim community. Quite an irony, as the Bohra community is known to be the most liberal and open among all the sects of Islam thriving in the country. Even worse, Mumbai, a metropolitan advanced city of India, the financial capital of the country, has become the hub for the practice of female genital mutilation. Not only do Muslims from the Bohra community in India frequent its practitioners, but after having legal actions begun against them in Australia and the USA over this practice, Bohra expats from other countries have started to crowd into Mumbai to get their little girls cut.
At times these girls are promised a piece of candy, at times a movie featuring their favourite stars, at times a fun outing. The deceit unravels itself as the girl child is ushered into a dingy, dark room through a grimy gully in an inconspicuous corner of the city. She is pinned to a dirty bed, her pants are forced down and the tiny part of her body that, in due course, could have led her into experiencing the greatest pleasures of womanhood is chopped off with knives, blades, or anything sharp and long enough to slit off the clitoris. In most cases, female genital mutation is carried out by older women or untrained midwives with scant regard for personal hygiene and sanitation of the surroundings. The severed flesh is then tossed in a garbage bin, in the name of culture, morality, uprightness and modesty.
Members of the Bohra Muslim community often slander the clitoris as “haraam ki boti.” This Hindi epithet translates to “bastardly flesh” and basically mans “source of sin.” The appalling and discriminatory idea inspiring the practice has been passed on unchallenged through centuries of patriarchy. They fear that if a woman discovered the pleasure of orgasm, in which the clitoris has the paramount part to play, she may go “astray.” She could set out on adventurous explorations to find pleasure outside or before marriage, and bring “dishonour” to her family and to the community.
India, which, with an exhaustive struggle against Islamist fundamentalists engendered by liberals and leftists, succeeded in criminalizing the Triple-Talak, or the Islamic practice of easy divorce for men, still does not have any laws to protect girls as young as six, seven, eight or nine years old against the excruciating and traumatic experience of losing a part of their body, despite female genital mutilation being declared a human rights violation by the United Nations.
“I don’t think I ever enjoyed sex in my marriage. I often wonder what it would have been like if I hadn’t been cut. The sad part is I will never know,” a woman from the Bohra Muslim community from Mumbai shared with a leading news daily, while requesting anonymity.
Feminists who wax eloquent against breast-feeding male babies as a violation of the “my body my choice” protocol have no courage to speak against slicing and stitching the private parts of young girls without their consent, because to do so would “hurt” the Muslim demography they strive desperately to appease and collaborate with. And this, dear readers, is why the third-wave of modern feminism is a joke.
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