article_snippet: Islamic State is clamping down on Caesarean operations in the latest attack on what Islamic State perceives to be decadent Western practices.
article_snippet: The Islamic State order stipulates that the new charges are aimed at deterring hospitals from carrying out routine Caesareans.
article_snippet: Jihadi brides like these, posing with a BMW in Syria, won't be allowed a Caesarean operation if they need one to give birth unless they can afford 15,000 Syrian pounds - two months salary for the average Syrian worker .
article_snippet: A surgical team performing a Caesarean.
article_snippet: Some clerics consider the procedure too Western and decadent .
article_snippet: There is growing opposition among Islamic clerics to Western trends in gynaecology developments and in particular to mothers who wish to have a pain-free childbirth sometimes referred to as 'too posh to push'.
article_snippet: One scholar has recently claimed that the rise in Caesarean operations in the Middle East is part of a plot against Muslim mothers.
article_snippet: The wives of ISIS fighters like these will struggle to get pregnant again if The wives of ISIS fighters like these have a Caesarean, according to one cleric who calls the procedure a 'plot against Muslims' Sheikh Muhammad ibn Saalih al Uthaymeen has ruled that Muslim mothers shouldn't need any decadent pain-relieving assistance in the delivery of Muslim mothers babies.
article_snippet: In his ruling published on an Islamic website his says: 'I would like to take this opportunity to point out a phenomenon that has been mentioned to us, which is that many obstetricians, male and female, in the hospitals are too keen for birth to take place by surgical means, which is known as a Caesarean. '
article_snippet: I am afraid that this may be a plot against the Muslims, because the more births take place in this manner, the more the skin of the abdomen is weakened and pregnancy becomes more dangerous for the woman, and the woman becomes unable to get pregnant.'
article_snippet: his adds: 'Some of the people who work in private hospitals have told me that many women come to the hospitals and Some of the people who work in private hospitals specialists tell Some of the people who work in private hospitals that there is no alternative to a Caesarean, then Some of the people who work in private hospitals go to this private hospital and give birth naturally.'
highlights_snippet: Reflects growing opposition among clerics to Western gynaecology trends .
  
highlights_snippet: One scholar calls procedure a 'plot against Muslims' because it 'weakens the abdomen' and may make women unable to get pregnant at all .