Motor City Muslim MD Female Genital Mutilators Were Motivated By Their Most Authoritative Islamic Law Text

Federal prosecutors have indicted six Detroit area members of the Ismaili Shiite Muslim minority Bohra community—including two MDs—for subjecting young girls to female genital mutilation (FGM) procedures. The six are charged with 9 counts of conspiring, committing, and concealing acts of FGM, which is illegal in the U.S. (per 18 U.S. Code § 116). Preliminary physical findings made public from genital examinations of two of the child victims revealed,

[#1] “labia minora altered, or removed; clitoral hood abnormal in appearance; scar tissue and small lacerations”

[#2] “clitoral hood has a small incision; small tear to labia minora”

While six child victims have been identified thus far, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward has disclosed that defendant Dr. Jumana Nagarwala may have performed some 100 FGM procedures on young girls during the past 12-years.

Why would trained Bohra Muslim MDs, Dr. Nagarwala, and her MD co-defendant, Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, engage in the illegal practice of FGM—which has no intrinsic medical value—while further violating the Hippocratic Oath, “noxamvero et maleficium propulsabo”/ “I will utterly reject harm and mischief,” by causing well-established immediate and chronic medical complications [bleeding, infection, difficult birthing, painful intercourse], and deleterious psychological effects [depression, phobic anxiety, hostility]?

Moreover, why do FGM rates persist at such high levels in both the “global” Bohra Muslim community (primarily within India), i.e., ~70-80%, and even among 80% of Canadian Bohra Muslim women?

An unapologetic explanation was provided forthrightly in a February 2017 publication, “Understanding Female Genital Cutting in the Dawoodi Bohra Community: An Exploratory Survey,” by anti-FGM activist social worker Mariya Taher. Ms. Taher, noted aptly,

…the Daim al-Islam, a religious text followed by this community endorses the practice.

This most authoritative text in Shi’ite Ismaili Law Da’a’im al-Islam of al-Numan (translated by the respected Indian Ismaili Muslim scholar Asaf A.A. Fyzee), makes plain that the purpose of FGM, quoting Shiism’s revered martyr, Ali himself, is to make women “more chaste”, “pure,” [Vol. 1, pp. 154-55]:

Ali: He said, “O women, when you circumcise your daughters, leave [part of the labia or clitoris]. For this will be chaster for their character and it will make them more beloved by their husbands”. He also said, “Hasten with the circumcision of your children, for it indeed leads to greater purity.” He said, “A girl should not be circumcised until she is 7 years old.”

Not surprisingly, Bohra Muslim women who have come forth bravely to reject this misogynistic barbarity, decry how this form of FGM—like all others—is designed to suppress female sexuality. The goal of reducing female “concupiscence”—“unbridled lust,” or mere sexual pleasure, derived from a fully intact clitoris—demonstrates how minority Bohra Muslim/Shiite Ismaili Islamic law converges with the much larger mainstream corpus of majority Sunni Islamic law on FGM/ “female circumcision” [FGM/C].

The following canonical hadith (“tradition” of Muhammad) sanctions FGM/C:

Umm Atiyyah al-Ansariyyah said: A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina. The Prophet said to her: “Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband.” [Sunan Abu Dawud, Chapter 1888, “Circumcision of Girls”, Number 5251, from Sunan Abu Dawud, one of the six canonical hadith collections, English translation with Explanatory notes by Prof. Ahmad Hasan, 2007, Volume III, p. 1451; this hadith is also available online here, as Book 41, Number 5251]

Professor Hasan’s note adds these observations:

Some Shafii scholars hold that circumcision of girls is obligatory, but others think that it is recommended. Ahmad b. Hanbal and some Maliki jurists hold that it is obligatory. Abu Hanifah maintains that it is recommended and not obligatory. Malik holds that it is recommended and not obligatory.

Al-Jahiz (d. 869), the great Muslim theologian and polymath, citing the canonical tradition of Muhammad, maintained that female circumcision was specifically employed as a means to reduce female “concupiscence,” This argument is repeatedly invoked by classical Muslim jurists, and remains at present the most frequently cited rationale for circumcision of Muslim women, including from respected Al-Azhar clerics/“Professors,” Al Azhar University and its mosque representing the pinnacle of Sunni Islamic religious education, the de facto Vatican of Sunni Islam. The late Jad al-Haq (d. 1996) who served as Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and as such was a Sunni Muslim Papal equivalent, insisted the present era makes female circumcision requisite,

because of mixing of the sexes at public gatherings. If the girl is not circumcised, she subjects herself to multiple causes of excitation leading her to vice and perdition. [Jad al-Haq, 1983, Khitan al-banat, in: Al-fatawi al-islamiyyah min dar al-ifta al-masriyyah, Vol. 9, p. 3124, translated here]

Entirely consistent religious opinions, “fatwas,” sanctioning FGM/C for North American Muslims by the mainstream Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) have been issued.  The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America’s (AMJA’s) mission statement claims the organization was,

…founded to provide guidance for Muslims living in North America…AMJA is a religious organization that does not exploit religion to achieve any political ends, but instead provides practical solutions within the guidelines of Islam and the nation’s laws to the various challenges experienced by Muslim communities…

A report in The Muslim Observer published October 21, 2010 highlighting AMJA’s “seventh annual American conference of imams,” and the fact that “a list of scholars associated with it which stretches from Al-Azhar University to Virginia’s Open University, and back across the ocean to the professors at Saudi universities,” confirmed that the organization is accepted as such by the mainstream American Muslim community. AMJA rulings clearly support the practice of FGM/C. A fatwa from Dr. Hatem al-Haj justified the horrific practice, by citing the canonical hadith in which Islam’s prophet Muhammad endorsed its practice. Al-Haj then went on to implicitly justify the practice of taking a Muslim female outside of her American milieu to have the procedure performed—in violation of the US “TRANSPORT FOR FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION” act. A concordant fatwa issued in Arabic on the website of the Secretary-General of AMJA and the chief member of its Resident Fatwa Committee, Dr. Salah Al-Sawy, declared that FGM was “an honor” for women, Al-Sawy also acknowledged that the procedure—in accord with a continuum of Islamic rationale from al-Jahiz in the mid-9th century, to former Muslim Papal equivalent, i.e., Al-Azhar University Grand Imam Jad al-Haq through 1996—is explicitly implemented to reduce a woman’s otherwise unbridled “concupiscence,” i.e., lust:

But for the woman, the purpose [of circumcision] is the benefit that it has in lessening her lust, which is a wholesome request. There is no harm in removing it. In short, female circumcision is an honor (which) does not rise to the level of a duty, in clear language.

FGM as performed by the Bohra Muslim MDs of metropolitan Detroit comports with the Islamic law sanction of FGM worldwide—a practice dominated by Muslim societies, and even Muslim minorities within multi-religious societies, which global UNICEF data, and now data from our own U.S. Centers for Disease Control demonstrate, irrefragably. It is chilling to witness American Muslim MDs—clearly motivated by authoritative, doctrinal Islam—persist in this ugly practice despite U.S. legal prohibition, and the moral depravity of the procedure, vis-à-vis their own professional code of ethics.

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Suresh

6 years ago

Muslim mutilators are nothing new. But which islamic text allows organ harvesting http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8

They are targeting refugees including children

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Lynn D

6 years ago

Reply to  Suresh

Must be part of the jizya we non muslims have to pay them, along with the welfare cheques they get from our taxes

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dba_ vagabond_trader

6 years ago

No way the beast in this pic is a female. Nope.

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tom

6 years ago

We should send every one of these primitive savages back to the third world Islamic turd piles they climbed out of.

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

The ideal solution to this is to, through immigrant qualifications, to”remove” all traces of islam and muslims from civilized countries.

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buck

6 years ago

How about using a sharia law punishment on these animals who have done this? You want to practice stone age laws in this country? If found guilty of ignoring our laws to practice these stone age laws then your punishment will be a stone age punishment. How about burying them in sand up to their necks and letting the girls they mutilated throw rocks at them!!

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Lynn D

6 years ago

Reply to  buck

Ahh poetic justice…The best type

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puhiawa

6 years ago

Cut off their genitals and their thumbs. One for punishment of a like kind, as called for, the other to ensure they practice their perversion no more. It is the word of the Koran.

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Annie

6 years ago

Women’s “concupiscence” and “unbridled lust” must
be stamped out by mutilating her. When that causes
physical problems like difficulty urinating the rest of her
life – or difficult childbirth – or pain – at least she will be
pure! While men’s “concupiscence” or “unbridled lust”
can run wild with four wives and easy divorce – rape
with impunity – and in many cases, concubines and sex
slaves.

Genital mutilation makes a woman a thing in the sexual
act – not a participant. The cutting away of a female’s
sexuality reminds me so much of the branding of cattle.

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James Jones

6 years ago

Reply to  Annie

I agree Annie . Can anyone tell me how the woman’s movement thought that aligning themselves with these barbarians makes their cause better in any way or more respectful to those who empathised with their plight . If anything , it is jeopardizing public opinion against them as they are well on the road to coming off their rails and appearing as not knowing what they want or who they are.

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Annie

6 years ago

Reply to  James Jones

The Women’s Movement today sounds as unhinged
and idiotic as your average imam in a mosque.

And you’ve got to admit the feminists are in an
environment today where their lunacy can thrive –
one in which world and government leaders and
all segments of Western society bend over back-
wards proclaiming Islam as a religion of peace.

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Robert Batchelor

6 years ago

And if this case is tried in a court with a liberal judge then we already know how this case is going to be decided.

What these monsters are doing is reprehensible and it needs to stop. They need to be severely punished. Unfortunately, i have my doubts justice will be served in a liberal court.

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dba_ vagabond_trader

6 years ago

Uggggh!

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iprazhm

6 years ago

The vast majority of Muslims do great harm, or support the practice of it, with little regard for life or liberty because they are members of a cult called islam.

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Duchess of Pork

6 years ago

A well researched post providing comprehensive background to the forthcoming trial. Thank you Dr Bostom.

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