Posted on 03/20/2007 10:46:40 AM PDT by Sam Hill
From those omniscient clerics at Islam Question and Answer:
Ruling on female circumcision
Question No 1188
Question:
Is female circumcision sunnah or a bad practice? I read in a magazine that female circumcision in any form is a bad practice that is harmful from a medical point of view, and that it may sometimes lead to sterility. Is this correct?
Answer:
Praise be to Allaah.
Circumcising females is sunnah; it is neither a bad practice or harmful, if it is done within moderation. When extreme forms of female circumcision are carried out, harm may result.
Okay.
As long as it is done in moderation.
Ping.
Female circumcision in moderation?
Kinda like half pregnant?
Geez. "... if it is done within moderation..." And how would that be? What a bunch of animals. Oh, no, wait, I didn't mean to slander animals. They believe half the human race is an object for them to own and mutilate. What does that say about their own self-image? What is wrong with these people? Why are they allowed to live among us?
They also think "rape done in moderation" is fine as long as it's someone else's sister or mother.....
Then there's "jihad in moderation" which means only slaughtering infidels and not fellow Islamo-fascists.
Don't forget about "treason in moderation" -- so long as it's America you are betraying, castle of the crusader infidels....
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Circumcising females is sunnah; it is neither a bad practice or harmful, if it is done within moderation
I don't know if this is what the guy is talking about, but there are different kinds of female circumcision. At its most benign ("moderate" I guess) it's basically equivalent to a male circumcision.
Ok how do you "benignly" circumcise a female?
Lopping off body parts in order to appease or please imaginary friends is a sick, bordering on psychotic, practice. (And, no, I'm not just talking about female circumcision.)
Yeah, let's hear it for cultural relativism.
Wish someone would email CAIR for a comment on this.
You take off the prepuce, same as in a male circumcision.
Touché.
In the Middle Ages, Arabs often castrated slaves. I suppose this was ok, too, "as long as it was done in moderation."
...In fact it's quite strange the way a line of thought that's intended to side with the oppressed often sides with oppressors in the name of multiculturalism. A great many practices could be put in the box 'their culture'. Dowry murders, female infanticide, female genital mutilation, slavery, child labour, drafting children into armies, the caste system, beating and sexually abusing and witholding wages from domestic servants especially immigrants, Shariah, fatwas, suttee. These are all part of someone's 'culture', as murder is a murderer's culture and rape is a rapist's. But why validate only the perpetrators? Have the women, servants, slaves, child soldiers, Dalits, ten-year-old carpet weavers in these cultures ever even had the opportunity to decide what their culture might be?
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