Michigan: Lawyers for Muslim doctors charged with performing FGM to use religious freedom as defense

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Michigan: Lawyers for Muslim doctors charged with performing FGM to use religious freedom as defense

July 28, 2017 8:17 am By Christine Douglass-Williams 47 Comments

    Defense lawyers have said they will argue a freedom of religion defense – setting the stage for an explosive test of Americans’ religious rights that experts say could ultimately be settled by the Supreme Court.

As Robert Spencer explained here, Fakhruddin Attar’s lawyer Mary Chartier “apparently she intends to argue that female genital mutilation (contrary to constantly repeated establishment media myth) is justified in Islam, and that therefore Dr. Attar was just exercising his freedom of religion. If that is really what she intends to do, this will become a test case for the spread of Sharia practices in the U.S.: either Muslims will be allowed to violate existing U.S. laws under the rubric of the freedom of religion, or they will be called upon to obey U.S. laws even when those laws conflict with the teachings of Islam. If the court rules for the latter, the U.S. will have a chance to continue to exist as a free society. If the court rules for the former, it will be opening the door to all manner of jihad activity and Sharia practices that violate laws regarding equality of rights and equality of access to services, and no one will be able to say a word against the spread of Sharia in the U.S.”

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/michigan-lawyers-for-muslim-doctors-charged-with-performing-fgm-to-use-religious-freedom-as-defense

[Fishrrman]

This could become an important test case.

[TomSea]

It might work actually; they can call in all kinds of "expert" witnesses.

[Wingnut]

This could become an important test case.

In Jazzyheads world if the Moslum butchers lose this case using the freedom of religion argument.... then Circumcision must also be banned.

[SZonian]

The polygamists and a whole bunch of others are probably popping the popcorn right now...

[Suppressed]

In Jazzyheads world if the Moslum butchers lose this case using the freedom of religion argument.... then Circumcision must also be banned.

Actually, this case involves circumcision. It was female circumcision...removing the female prepuce similar to how a male's is removed in male circumcision (except it's a bit more major with a male than this case).

[Gefn]

It's my understanding Muslims and Jews circumcise males for religious reasons. I think it goes back to Abraham.

[Suppressed]

It's my understanding Muslims and Jews circumcise males for religious reasons.

Likewise for female circumcision for Muslims... it's one of the Sunnahs of the fitrah (obligation of cleanliness).