I was looking through a media gallery at thedailybeast.com and found these disturbing images from Bandung, Indonesia. The following images are from a mass “Female Circumcision Ceremony”, or termed more accurately by most as female genital mutilation. These innocent young girls are brought one by one by their parents to have their clitoris and part or all of their labia minora removed in honor of the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday. The parents were even given money to subject their children to this horrific mutilation.
How can there still be any willingly practicing Muslim women? It is absolutely baffling to me.
Midwives wait for their next circumcision victim. 248 girls were mutilated in the Female Circumcision Ceremony on April 23, 2006.
A terrified Muslim girl resists as she is prepared to be mutilated.
A young Muslim girl is comforted as she sits with her mother following her mutilation ceremony.
I can’t even comprehend this. How can people be so blinded by religion to torture their own child?
Tags: Ceremony, Female Circumcision, Genitalia, Genitals, Girls, Mohammed, Muslim, Mutilation, Photos, Religion, Tradition, Women
April 28, 2009 at 5:21 pm |
Deluded” French Muslim starves, beats his eight children
Motivation? Making them “better Muslims.” “‘Deluded’ French Muslim charged with starving children,” from the Telegraph, April 15:
A delusional French father has been charged with starving and beating his eight children in the belief that it would make them good Muslims.
Police were alerted after a neighbour spotted one of the children, a boy of 13 who weighed just 70lbs, foraging in bins for food in the Mediterranean town of Banyuls-sur-Mer.
“The teenager was painfully thin, shivering, with bloody marks on his face, bare feet and sores. He said he had been beaten for stealing a handful of sugar,” said local prosecutor Jean-Pierre Dreno.
Searching the family apartment on Saturday police found seven other children, aged seven to 17, in a state of hunger and neglect, including two girls, aged 13 and 15, who each weighed just 22kg.
The boy and two sisters have been taken to hospital and the other siblings taken into care, while their parents have been detained on charges of depriving their children of food, and physical abuse.
The father, a market worker of Moroccan origin, and his wife, an east European Muslim convert, told police they sought to raise their family in strict obedience to Islam, which they said included going without food.
There were no food supplies in the flat and the eldest girls had been taken out of class because of a French law banning headscarfs in public schools.
“The parents explained that they practised their religion scrupulously, and with a very strict diet,” said the prosecutor.
The 49-year-old father told investigators he had beaten his son to cure him “because he was possessed by lies.”
“We are dealing with a delusional person, this is a cult-like situation,” Dreno said. “This went way beyond any kind of religious practice, however rigorous.”
Commenting on the case, the Paris Mosque said the father was clearly deluded in his interpretation of Islam, stressing that even during the fasting month of Ramadan, children are exempt, along with pregnant women and the elderly.
April 28, 2009 at 6:21 pm |
[...] abuse that is still being practiced today. Photos speak more powerfully than words can here. (Via http://www.thebeattitude.com) [...]
April 28, 2009 at 11:27 pm |
Oh my goodness… That’s absolutely awful! Those poor kids.
April 30, 2009 at 12:55 pm |
I personally feel that this practice rates in the top 5 of worst religious practices in the world today. It makes me very……. very upset.
June 22, 2009 at 9:08 pm |
You are aware that both Jews and Muslims routinely mutilate the genitals of their male offspring, for much the same reasons? Thankfully this disgusting and ignorant act is far less common with girls, but spare some thought for the boys routinely mutilated under the name of religious tradition.
April 11, 2010 at 8:12 am |
The are like zombies, not parents, real parents don’t do anything to hurt their kids. Kids need unconditional love and respect, not pain, these people are brain washed nutters.
God would never want us to hurt our children, children are Blessings from God.
April 22, 2010 at 8:03 am |
Children are the blessing of a healthy pregnancy. I’m not sure what an invisible deity has to do with it. But regardless of superstition and gods in the clouds, no rational human would ever willingly mutilate their children. Religion is a dangerous thing.
April 21, 2010 at 5:15 am |
this fucking maddness..wat da hell go wrong with these perents..this is not releigon..this is sick..damn sick…poor children if they can tell their perents dont do this to uss.they surely would..
April 21, 2010 at 8:34 pm |
Wait a minute . I don’t think children are mutilated in Islam.Just because you say so doesn’t mean you’re true.I’m not gonna believe muslim children are mutilated in Islam.Besides, I think you guys are taking pictures from hospitals.I, an 11 year-old-girl am a muslim and do not think this is true .1,000,000,000 people think we muslims are bad.oh yeah you dont know how painful it is to be a muslim my uncle is a soldier.his kids are bombarded 3 times a year.if you become a muslim,then i will believe u guys if we mutilate our children!
April 22, 2010 at 2:18 am |
You are right to be skeptical of things that are hard to believe, especially on the Internet.
However, you do not need to believe this post, or its author, or me to be persuaded that this one is true: the information about it is available from many reputable and reliable sources. Unfortunately, I do not know how to direct you to sources of this information that you might trust. I do not know where you live or what might be available to an 11-year-old, nor really much about sources other than news media.
So, problematic as it may be, since you appear to have access to the Internet, I will point to two Internet pages which I regard as credible. Perhaps this will give you pointers on where to find information that you will find credible.
A Google search on “female circumcision” turned up, among other items, the following.
A page from the United Nations World Health Organization, entitled Female genital mutilation, which describes it in clinical terms and outlines the “mix of cultural, religious and social factors” that lead to it. They do not mention any culture, religion, or society by name; but this article indicates that the practice exists.
A page at ReligiousTolerance.org – Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance about the Debate Among Muslims about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The fact that there is a debate indicates that it is common in that community and indeed that many Muslims reject it, including some influential clerics who assert that it violates Islam.
In the long run, though, if you live in a Muslim country or have frequent contact with citizens of those countries, you will likely meet girls and women to whom this has been done. That will be more credible than anything on this blog or the Internet.
April 22, 2010 at 7:59 am |
There are many different sects of Islam. Being a member of the religion, you should know that. And yes, sadly this sadistic mutilation of children is part of the Muslim religion. Obviously not practiced by all Muslims, but it most certainly is practiced by some.
My wife works in the medical field an has done exams on immigrant Muslim women with the scars of this disgusting religious act.
June 16, 2010 at 12:50 pm |
religions is not the matter here. its the attitude. in islam, fasting is good because it reminds us to those who suffered from hunger like african. it make us feel thankful to Allah S.W.T. Parents have the authority to teach their children and childrens should respects their parents. for the circumcis issue, it is for their own benefits. you can look in internet the benefit of circumcis. only then you can say all you want.
June 16, 2010 at 8:15 pm |
I understand MALE circumcision, but FEMALE? <_<
June 22, 2010 at 11:40 pm |
you guys are retarted. this practice has nothing to do with religion its the way those countries cultures are. do your damn research, you guys are ignorant people who will believe anything biased people will say and act like you know so much shit when really everyone that does their research sees you guys as stupid uneducated people who doesn’t have a brain/mind of their own. Every muslim country doesn’t practice the our religion the same way and those who use islam as an excuse for their violence and cruelty are only fooling themselves and you but not God.
June 23, 2010 at 9:00 am |
I did not claim this act is practiced by all Muslims. Obviously it is not.
In fact, the practice is not publicly supported by any organized religion. However, it is certainly performed within Islam as well as other religions. As I stated in the post, religion is dangerous. It will inspire some people to be great humanitarians and inspire others to act like dangerous mental patients. Superstitious delusion can justify any behavior.