BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION This custom is so barbaric to me, I have avoided talking about it. But as a mother and a woman - I think its time I took a stand here. Ignoring this issue isn't going to make it go away. If Hashem made man in His image and made him perfect, then only Hashem has the right to order something like circumsion. But FEMALE circumsion? Did I miss that in the Torah? I don't think so. Girls die from this mutilation every year. I am posting a couple articles on the subject. I hope you join me in speaking out against this horror. Letter to the Mom's Who Mutilate Their Daughters Last month 12-year old Budour died after her family chose to have her clitoris surgically mutilated. This little Egyptian girl is only one of the estimated 6,000 girls who undergo Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) every single day, but her death has triggered the slowly working cogs of progress towards eradicating this vicious cultural practice meant to control and condemn women...

Is it racist to condemn fanaticism? (Listen up Jimmy Carter, Nancy Pelosi and those Democrats who don't get that you can NOT talk to these fanatics: " Our abject refusal to judge between civilisation and barbarism, and between enlightened rationalism and theocratic fundamentalism, endangers and condemns the victims of Islamic tyranny. " You rule Dr. Chesler! ) How my eyes were opened to the barbarity of Islam By Phyllis Chesler Once I was held captive in Kabul. I was the bride of a charming, seductive and Westernised Afghan Muslim whom I met at an American college. The purdah I experienced was relatively posh but the sequestered all-female life was not my cup of chai — nor was the male hostility to veiled, partly veiled and unveiled women in public. When we landed in Kabul, an airport official smoothly confiscated my US passport. “Don’t worry, it’s just a formality,” my husband assured me. I never saw that passport again. I later learnt that this was routinely done to ...