Islam, the wholly misnamed ‘religion of peace’ has default settings. For example you can almost guarantee that some Muslims will kick off violently if ‘offended’, this is one default setting. Another default setting for Islam is that some Muslims will say anything, no matter how monstrously dishonest or laughable in order to protect Islam. However, today we are looking at the ‘blame the Jews’ default position of Islam, an example of which has popped up in Canada.
Whenever Muslims have been caught out doing something evil or counterproductive or wrong, things such as female genital mutilation for example, they can often reach immediately for an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. ‘A big Jew did it and ran away’ would be one way of describing this tactic.
The latest example of Muslims unjustly blaming Jews for something comes from Canada where an Islamic website has published an article that blames Jews for the public opprobrium that Muslims who commit FGM are held. It’s typical Islamic deflection isn’t it that the problem can’t be the public being sickened and revolted by the idea of chopping off a girls clitoris but instead public revulsion is part of a Jewish plot. With Jew hating attitudes like these coming from the mouths of these Islamic scummers then is it any wonder that the unitesticled Austrian was such a great fan of Islam?
Here’s part of an article that is critical of this Islamic site which was published recently on the Friendly Atheist page.
The Friendly Atheist said:
Muslims in Calgary, a group purporting to represent more than 75,000 Muslims in the Canadian city, made a pitch for its version of female genital mutilation and blamed the “Jewish controlled media” for anti-FGM attitudes.
The article, which was posted in July but recently received national attention, attempts to distinguish between female genital mutilation (which they admit is barbaric) and female circumcision (which they say is “proper”). Both male and female circumcision, according to the group, have “immense scientific and medical value.”
The author, Asiff Hussein, argues that cutting a baby girl’s genitals is healthy (and preferred) if you only remove “the clitoral prepuce and no more.”
I plainly told the sister who was moderating the show, I could see nothing wrong with it, since all they said that was required was to remove the prepuce or the skin covering the clitoris, a relatively minor and harmless procedure very much like male circumcision which like it might confer some health benefits as well. That raised a few eyebrows, probably because none of them had heard such a novel idea before.
Hussein goes on to blame the “Jewish controlled media” for the fact that people oppose “female circumcision.”
The Friendly Atheist then went onto quote Hussain’s batshit crazy statements that FGM had a lot of positive health benefits that were being suppressed by Islamophobic doctors working in hand with a Jewish controlled media.
The Friendly Atheist quoting Hussain said:
Of course there’s really nothing so novel about it. Much has been written about it even by Western Doctors but these studies have been conveniently overlooked to conform to Islamophobic sentiments expressed by a largely Jewish controlled media. This media machine works in different ways. For one thing, it will say that Islam advocates genitally mutilating women to curb their sexuality, citing examples of barbaric forms of FGM practiced in sub-Saharan Africa, thereby associating Islam with a misogynistic attitude.
This is so typical of Islamic leaders who cannot defend honestly their beliefs and practises but try to put the blame on a ‘Jewish plot’ for any criticism that they get. Hussain is completely off his trolley and he should be filed alongside Askhar Bukhari the British Islamist who a while back complained that the Israeli security service Mossad had been sneaking into his bedroom at night and stealing his shoes.
The Friendly Athiest piece continued:
Contrary to other Islamic thought leaders who have claimed female genital mutilation is “the honorable thing to do” because it prevents girls from becoming “hypersexually active,” Hussein says “proper” Islamic practice doesn’t curb sexuality.
Why do it at all, then? Well, he says it is “beneficial to women and not detrimental to them.” In addition to supposed health benefits (no citations offered), he says “the procedure could in fact increase sexual gratification in women since it exposed the surface area of the clitoris to greater stimulation during the sex act as well as in oral sex.” Again, no citations were given.
According to the Freindly Atheist blog it didn’t take a significant time before Hussain started bashing the Jews some more.
Friendly Atheist quoting Hussain said:
So there you are. It is in the interests of the Jews to criticize female circumcision while promoting male circumcision. Why, because male circumcision is a Jewish practice and female circumcision is not…
It’s in the interests of humans not just Jews or anyone else to criticise the barbaric practise of FGM. There are no benefits to FGM and it is dishonest and disingenuous to try to compare a practise that robs women of their natural functions with male circumcision which as well as being a religious sacrament in Judaism has genuinely been shown to be a relatively benign procedure. Hussain’s modus operandi appears to be, if in doubt lie and blame the Jews after all why wouldn’t Hussain do this, it’s the Muslim way after all isn’t it?
Is there anything in the world that these Muslim leaders will not blame Jews for? It seems not. Muslim leaders will continue to blame the Jews for anything and everything that either ails the Muslim world or makes the Islamic world and culture a source of riducule and criticism.
The inability of Muslim leaders to engage in self examination or critical examination both textual and moral of Islamic scripture or a free and deep reaching scrutiny of Islamic cultures are the main reasons why most Islamic countries are horrendously oppressive, badly run hell holes. If the first recourse of a senior community leader such as Hussain is to blame others, in this case the Jews, for criticism that certain Islamic practises are getting then is it any wonder then it tells a bit about Islamic culture as a whole. What the Hussain case tells us is that he, like other Muslim leaders and by extension Islamic cultures and societies, are incapable of recognising the ills caused by Islam in their societies, whether that be FGM, misogyny, jihad or slavery, and certainly not capable of taking the necessary steps to put these problems right.
Link
Original article from the Friendly Atheist page
Bio page for Asiff Hussain
https://asiffhussein.com/about-asiff-hussein/
Source article from Calgary Muslims
I concur with your disgust as this cowardly and deceitful face-saving default. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, who translated the well-known Sunni Shaf’i manual of jurisprudence ‘Umdat as-Salik wa ‘Uddat an-Nasik (a.k.a “Reliance of the Traveller”) into English, fudged translation of this part of the manual. Non-Muslim Arabic-reader Mark Durie has explained that p. 59>e4.3 on circumcision has been mistranslated and should read “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” (https://www.andrewbostom.org/2008/01/clarification-of-islamic-law-support-for-female-genital-mutilation-by-dr-mark-durie/; David Wood has produced an informative video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qle_4qiH4tU (14:53 mins)). Mark Durie comments “All jurisprudents, since the advent of Islam and for 14 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. Of the four Sunni schools of sharia, it is the Shafi’is who have said that circumcision of girls is compulsory” (ibid). (B.t.w, Mr Keller also omitted translation of the section on slavery, which is available here: https://mdharrismd.com/2015/03/03/translation-of-the-manual-of-islamic-sacred-law/)
The practice is against the law in Egypt but still occurs. Here is an article from the Alexandria Journal of Medicine: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090506815000238. The part of anatomy most often referred to as “clitoris” is external and is actually the glans of a larger organ that is mainly internal, so someone could remove the glans and yet claim not to “remove the clitoris”, however discussions of FGM take the word “clitoris” to refer to the glans. The World Health Organization has classified the forms of FGM into four types, Type I of which is subdivided into Type Ia (removal of the clitoral hood or prepuce only) and Type Ib (removal of the clitoris with the prepuce); Type IV “Includes pricking or incising of the clitoris or labia, cauterisation by burning of the clitoris, or introduction of corrosive substances or herbs into the vagina” but no flesh is removed. Another study of Iraqi Kurds: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-13-809.