"All women should be cut, so that there is no depravity on Earth," Ismail Berdiyev (pictured above), mufti of Russia's North Caucasus Muslim Coordination Center, said according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
The agency added that he went on to say: "It is necessary to reduce a woman's sexuality, and it would be good if this [female genital mutilation] were done to all women. God created women so that they can have children and bring them up. This [female genital mutilation] has nothing to do with that; women do not stop giving birth after having this done." [...]
He received support, however, from a senior priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, Vsevolod Chaplin, who wrote on his Facebook page: "My sympathies for the mufti. I hope he doesn't retreat from his position because of the howls and hysterics which will start now."
He also said the mufti had simply "talked about his time-honored traditions, recognized by the majority of women living under this tradition," before adding that "feminism is a 20th century lie" and that it is not necessary to practice FGM on Orthodox women because "they are not debauched anyway." [...]
The Russian Ministry of Health has said FGM is a "crippling" practice, but although it is against various sections of Russian law, there is no specific legislation forbidding it. One of the co-authors of the report, Yulia Antonova, told DW that "the law needs to be strengthened because otherwise there will not be any prosecutions at all."
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