Frontpagemag.com has a disturbing article on the practice of female circumcision in the Islamic world, called "Islam's Hatred of the Clitoris." Follow the link from the title to read it.
It has been said that Islam is the most misogynistic culture in human history and I have no doubt of it. (Mysogeny is the hatred of women.) Making women wear hijabs or burqas, where the entire body and even the face is covered, seems barbarian to me. It's as if women were lepers or possessed of some dreadful, highly contagious disease. Or perhaps they are like the Hydra, where one glimpse will turn the observer into stone.
Even Muhammad said that women were property of men and that most of the inhabitants of Hell will be women. In Islam, women are not allowed to drive. They are not allowed to travel outside of the home unless accompanied by a man. When a parent dies, daughters get only one-half a share in the inheritance that the sons do. And, of course, husbands are allowed and even encouraged to beat their women. Muhammad advised Muslim men to hang their scourge (whip) on the wall where their wives could see it.
Women are often raped in the Islamic world, then put to death for having sex outside of marriage, while the rapist goes free. When it's a woman's word against a man's, the woman's word is not to be believed.
All that is bad stuff, for sure. But genital mutilation in young girls is undoubtedly one of the most barbaric practices in a very sick culture. Read the article.
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