Photos of Muslim female genital mutilation

Click here to view photos of Muslim female genital mutilation, a barbaric act found only in Islam.

These photos were taken in April 2006 at an annual "ceremony", sponsored by the Assalaam Foundation, an Islamic educational and social-services organization in Indonesia, where female circumcisions take place in a prayer center or an emptied-out elementary-school classroom where desks are pushed together and covered with sheets and a pillow to serve as makeshift beds.

According to the NY Times, the annual mass circumcision is free and open to the public and held during the lunar month marking the birth of Mohammed. The Assalaam Foundation runs several schools and a mosque in Bandung, Indonesia’s third-largest city and the capital of West Java.

The photographer Stephanie Sinclair was taken to the circumcision event by a reproductive-health observer from Jakarta and allowed to spend several hours there. Over the course of that Sunday morning, more than 200 girls were circumcised, many of them appearing to be under the age of 5.

According to Lukman Hakim, the foundation’s chairman of social services, there are three “benefits” to circumcising girls.

“One, it will stabilize her libido,” he said through an interpreter. “Two, it will make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her husband. And three, it will balance her psychology.”
The NY Times calls this horrific practice "a ceremony", a tactic to dilute the barbaric nature of Islam's genital mutilation customs and its inherent misogyny. The NY Times has, as David Gutmann says, "avoided that Mother of All Pathologies - the Arab male's denigration of his women. A few critical references about honor killings and female genital mutilation and that's about it. Perhaps because the Deep Thinkers can't blame Islamic misogyny on Bush, they won't touch it in any depth."

Hard-Line Muslim Meeting Draws 90,000 Followers, Calls For Islamic State

Attention, muzbots, attention please. At least 90,000 of you are hereby ordered to pack a stadium in Jakarta and repeat endlessly how great your man-god is and call for an Islamic theocracy coup d'etat in Indonesia. Oh wait, you already have. From FoxNews:

Nearly 90,000 followers of a hard-line Muslim group packed a stadium in the Indonesian capital Sunday, calling for the creation of an Islamic state and thunderously chanting "Allah is great!"

Hizbut Tahrir, a Sunni organization with an estimated million members, is banned in some Asian and Arab countries, but drew supporters from Europe, Africa and the Middle East to Indonesia for a meeting of the group that is held every two years.

Speeches called for the return of the caliphate, or Islamic statehood, across the Muslim world. The crowd, divided into sections for women and men, roared in support.

The freedom of expression that Muslims enjoy in Indonesia is a luxury compared to most other countries, said Hassan Ko Nakata of the Japanese Muslim Association.

Speakers from England and Australia, Imran Waheed and Sheikh Ismail al Wahwah, were deported upon arrival in Indonesia, a spokesman said. It was not immediately clear why they were not allowed to attend.

"Those responsible for this are being paranoid," Ismail Yusanto told reporters. "This has hurt our right of freedom of expression."

I find it interesting how Muslims decry their loss of freedoms perfectly identified by our brilliantly written and conceived G-d inspired Bill of Rights, yet when their voices cannot be heard by whining how their rights to freedom of expression have been violated, they'll line up to get their gun powder, plastic explosives and 10 inch gauge wire in order to violate mine.

When will reasoned men reasonably start to believe that the political aspect of Islam makes it less a religion and more of an ideology, and a non-benign one at that?

Israel Gov't launches Indonesian Web site to spur dialog with Muslims

The Foreign Ministry on Monday launched a Web site in the Indonesian language in an effort to promote dialogue with citizens of the world's most populous Muslim country. The site includes news articles as well as information on the Israeli economy, culture and religion. The Indonesian site is part of continuing efforts by Israel to engage Muslim nations. Indonesia and Malaysia, the two Southeast Asian countries with predominantly Muslim populations have refused to consider diplomatic relations with Israel." Although we are living in the information age, there is a lack of basic information about Israel in the Muslim world," Ilan Ben Dov, Israel's ambassador to Singapore, said in a statement about the launch of the Website. "Following talks that I have conducted with Indonesians from all walks of life, I have learned that there exists a great thirst for knowledge about Israel and its democratic, pluralistic, vibrant and multicultural society." Ben Dov has previously said Israel would like a dialogue with Indonesia andMalaysia in order to work together on problems in the Middle East.