Calling All Liberals: Will No One Look Out for the Rights of the Women and Children?

by Khadija Khan  •  August 7, 2017 at 4:30 am

• "No one who comes to us has the right to put their cultural roots or their religious beliefs above our laws." — Heiko Maas, Justice Minister, Germany.
• These extremist "traditions" need to be exposed and rejected. They are actually nothing more than human rights abuses taking refuge under the banner of religion.
• "Domestic violence is abuse -- plain and simple. It is not, 'a beautiful blessing' as the video describes it." — Michaelia Cash, Minister for Women, Australia.

Shaker Elsayed, the imam of Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, was fired for endorsing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), stating that Islam encourages FGM to prevent women from being "hypersexual." (Image source: MEMRI video screenshot)

Tariq Ramadan, an Islamic scholar whom Oxford University treats as a feather in its cap, recently shocked the world by meticulously trying to avoid any criticism of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Instead, he asserted that it is a part of Islamic tradition and an internal matter for Muslims in the West.

Although Ramadan -- the grandson of the Egyptian cleric Hassan al Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood -- carefully chose to mention in a recent statement that although he himself does not support FGM, it is mentioned in the Hadith (the acts and sayings of the prophet Mohamed); that it is still recommended by many of the esteemed scholars of Islam and that it cannot be termed un-Islamic.

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