One major lie about FGM is the lie that FGM is a modern practice, deviation or some African tribal practice that magically found its way into Islam. As we can see, it is something of an obsession from the earliest part of Islam:
A woman used to perform circumcision [الْخِتَانُ – khitan] in Medina. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said to her: “Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband”.
Book 41, Number 5251, Sunan Abu Dawud, Abu As-Sijistani
The previous author has already written about this extensively in their article and the Islamic position – but it is important to go into the other historical and cultural dimensions too as many are unaware that this is RECOMMENDED in Islam and not discouraged whatsoever.
For all the love shown to Islamic Spain as a prototype of what a liberal and progressive Europe ‘could look like’ in the eyes of morons, all the legal authorities of Islamic Spain mandated FGM for girls. In fact, they took it for granted that it was the case. The majority of Islamic authorities comment on its prevalence. Malik ibn Anas, the main legal authority in Spain, described this in detail:
When the circumcised part passes the circumcised part, ghusl is obligatory.
2.19.74, Muwatta, Malik ibn Anas
He [Malik ibn Abas] said, ‘Whoever keeps a female slave may keep her circumcised if she wishes to keep her. If she is for resale, it is not a responsibility.’
Kitab-Al-Jami, Al-Qayrawani
Circumcision is required in men and honorable in women.
Leyes de Moros
If FGM happened in the ‘European paradise of Islam’, we can assume it still happens in a lot of places, not just Africa. Every Islamic text indicates this happened to children. So does reality:
The Muslim countries choosing to opt out of this along with those immigrant groups who also don’t are opting out of what Islam deems best for girls, picking and choosing what is convenient for them according to cultural practices.
Umm ‘Alqama related that when the daughters of ‘A’isha’s brother were circumcised, Aisha was asked, “Shall we call someone to amuse them?” “Yes,” she replied. ‘Adi was sent for and he came to them. ‘A’isha passed by the room and saw him singing and shaking his head in rapture – and he had a large head of hair. ‘Uff!’ she exclaimed, ‘A shaytan! Get him out! Get him out!’
Hadith 1247, Al-Adab Al-Mufrad, Muhammad al-Bukhari
The level of sickness here is just off the charts.
Apparently, SATAN is supposedly the ‘evil’ one, not butchers who mutilate innocent kids!
Satan NEVER did ANY of the acts that any of these filthy psychopaths from the ‘Good Books’ did!!!
Circumcision of female slaves is ALWAYS advised:
An old woman from Kufa, the grandmother of ‘Ali ibn Ghurab, reported that Umm al-Muhajir said, “I was captured with some girls from Byzantium. ‘Uthman offered us Islam, but only myself and one other girl accepted Islam. ‘Uthman said, “Go and circumcise them and purify them.”‘
Hadith 1245, Al-Adab Al-Mufrad, Muhammad al-Bukhari
In accordance with Islamic law, anesthetic is NOT used:
Then the scissors went down between my legs and the man cut off my inner labia and clitoris. I heard it, like a butcher snipping the fat off a piece of meat. A piercing pain shot up between my legs, indescribable, and I howled. Then came the sewing: the long blunt needle clumsily pushed into my bleeding outer labia, my loud and anguished protests…
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Anaesthetic and antiseptics are generally not used unless the procedure is carried out by medical practitioners.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) frequently asked questions, UNFPA
I remember I was screaming for my grandmother and my mother to help me but no-one did. I wasn’t given any medication before or after – not anaesthetic, nothing.
‘I was screaming for my mother’
My aunt was a doctor, so when she led me downstairs for a clinic and instructed me to lie flat on my back on her operating table I didn’t think to question her authority. With no anesthetic and very little warning she performed a ritualized cut.
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Survivor Tells Her Story
They were dirty razors. That is the razor that she will use for 10 or 20 girls that day. No hygiene involved, nothing. No anesthesia at all. You are just butchered. You could see your flesh. You could see your blood all over her hands. It was a complete, utter horrific, nightmare.
“‘A horrific nightmare’ Female genital mutilation survivor shares her …”, 2021-04-27 (archived from the original).
The room where a doctor, his wife and an assistant were waiting; her legs spread and held down as the doctor approached with a blade, inflicting agonizing pain with no anesthetic.
“Butter knife or sharp blade? Either way, FGM survivors in Sri Lanka”, 2022-02-20 (archived from the original).
My brothers held my legs, the elder held the blade. There was no anaesthetic before she cut me.
Mehret Yemane describing how, as a nine or 10-year-old in Sudan, she underwent FGM for the fourth time in her short life. Irish Times
In Burkina Faso, we did not have proper clinics for these procedures. We didn’t have doctors in white jackets and gloves. We didn’t even have anesthesia to numb the pain.
“Female Genital Mutilation at Nine Years Old: A Survivor Speaks Out …”, 2022-02-20 (archived from the original).
Remember, there were no anesthetics because for we you have to walk the walk, you have to dance the dance. It’s what makes you a woman. When you feel that pain it shows you that pain is all you know as a woman.
Breakout Session 3: Female Genital Mutilation – The Facts
Manuals for child-rearing such as ‘Our Precious Sprouts’ given out at European mosques and masjids recommend the procedure:
In case anyone thinks this is a ‘minority opinion’ and ‘minority phenomenon’…
ALL FOUR LEGAL SCHOOLS OF ISLAM AT LEAST ADVISE FEMALE CIRCUMCISION!
MALIKI MADHAB
Maliki hold the view that it is wajib (obligatory) for males and sunnah (optional) for females…
‘Delinking Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting from Islam’ by Ibrahim Lethome Asmani & Maryam Sheikh Abdi
Female circumcision is recommended.
Al-Dardir (Malikite)
Circumcision is Sunnah for men and women.
Ibn-al-Jallab (Malikite)
HANAFI MADHAB
The Hanafi view is that it is a sunnah (optional act) for both females and males
‘Delinking Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting from Islam’ by Ibrahim Lethome Asmani & Maryam Sheikh Abdi (2008)
Circumcision is sunnah and fitrah. For women, circumcision is makrumah. If the inhabitants of a country reach a unanimous decision to abandon circumcision, the Imam has to wage war against them as it is one of the rituals and a specificity of Islam.
Al-Musuli (Hanafite)
NOTE WITH THIS QUOTE that ANY country banning male or female circumcision must be DESTROYED ALTOGETHER by Islam!
This is exactly the same as the recent propaganda campaign of the enemy against Iceland when it banned male circumcision for infants. So much for ‘Islam is voluntary’:
SHAFI’I MADHAB
Shafi’i view it as wajib (obligatory) for both females and males
‘Delinking Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting from Islam’ by Ibrahim Lethome Asmani & Maryam Sheikh Abdi (2008)
Obligatory (on every male and female) is circumcision. (And it is the cutting-off of the skin [qat’ al-jaldah] on the glans of the male member and, as for the circumcision of the female, that is the cutting-off of the clitoris’)
Reliance of the Traveler [Umdat al-Salik], Section e4.3 on Circumcision
HANBALI MADHAB
Hanbali have two opinions: it is wajib (obligatory) for both males and females or it is wajib (obligatory) for males and makrumah (honourable) for females.
‘Delinking Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting from Islam’ by Ibrahim Lethome Asmani & Maryam Sheikh Abdi
Circumcision is obligatory for men, and noble deed for women and not obligatory according to many scholars. Ahmad said: circumcision for men is more important for men than for women, as the foreskin is pending over the glans, therefore what is behind cannot be cleaned. Female circumcision is also prescribed for women. Abu-Abdallah said that the hadith “If the two circumcised membranes meet, ghusl is necessary” means that female circumcision was practiced. According to the hadith of Umar, a circumciser woman performed circumcision; he told her: leave some of it if you circumcise. It is also reported that the Prophet Muhammad said to the circumciser woman: Cut very slightly and do not exaggerate as it is preferable for the husband and better for the face.
Al-Qudamah (Hanbalite)
… male and female circumcision are obligatory.
Al-Bahuti (Hanbalite)
Praise be to Allah. Yes, they should be circumcised, i.e., the top of the piece of skin that looks like a rooster’s comb should be cut. The Messenger of Allah said to the woman who did circumcisions: “Leave something sticking out and do not go to extremes in cutting. That makes her face look brighter and is more pleasing to her husband.” That is because the purpose of circumcising a man is to make him clean from the impurity that may collect beneath the foreskin. But the purpose of circumcising women is to regulate their desire, because if a woman is not circumcised her desire will be strong. Hence the words “O son of an uncircumcised woman” are used as an insult, because the uncircumcised woman has stronger desire. Hence immoral actions are more common among the women of the Tatars and the Franks, that are not found among the Muslim women. If the circumcision is too severe, the desire is weakened altogether, which is unpleasing for men; but if it is cut without going to extremes in that, the purpose will be achieved, which is moderating desire. And Allah knows best.
Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (Hanbalite)
Khitaan is a noun describing the action of the circumciser (khaatin). It is also used to describe the site of the circumcision, as in the hadith, “When the two circumcised parts (al-khitaanaan) meet, ghusl become obligatory.” In the case of a female the word used is khafad. In the male it is also called i’dhaar. The one who is uncircumcised is called aghlaf or aqlaf.
Ibn Qayyim (Hanbalite)
[FGM’s] purpose is to reduce the woman’s desire; if she is uncircumcised, she becomes lustful and tends to long more for men.
Ibn Taymiyya (Hanbalite)
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