Barbaric ISIS issue sickening fatwa to mutilate genitals of NEWBORN baby girls
THE barbaric Islamic State (ISIS) has issued a fatwa ordering that newborn baby girls horrifically have their genitials mutilated.
By
ZOIE O'BRIEN
PUBLISHED: 19:51, Thu, Jan 7, 2016 | UPDATED: 20:07, Thu, Jan 7, 2016
Barbaric ISIS issue sickening fatwa to mutilate genitals of NEWBORN baby girls
There have been fatwas for and against most thing, FGM is not different. There more than a hundred fatwas about FGM, but it remains more cultural and
not practiced across the Islamic world
>>Professor Ali Goma, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, stated: „
The female genital circumcision practiced today harms women psychologically and physically. Therefore, the practice must be stopped in support of one of the highest values of Islam, namely to do no harm to another – in accordance with the commandment of the Prophet Mohammed “Accept no harm and do no harm to another”. Moreover, this is seen as punishable aggression against humankind.“
The popular TV-preacher
Yussuf Al Qaradawi stated „
There is no doubt that the four sources of Islam (Koran, Sunna, Consensus and Analogy) have no evidence that requires or recommends this practice. Moreover, we have found no evidence whatsoever which forbids this custom or considers it deplorable. (..) According to a religious point of view, permitted acts can be prevented if damages accrued. The level of this prevention could have the meaning of frowned upon or prohibited (..) The objective study by neutral experts and specialists, who do not follow their wishes and the wishes of others shows that the circumcision, in its current form, harms women’s physical and psychological state and affects their marital life. Therefore, this practice and all allowed acts that bring about damages must be stopped. (..) Based on what we said, we consider that circumcision or cutting a part of woman’s body without medical care, according to the current way of practice and without justification, is not permitted and is illegal. It enters in the aspect of changing God’s creation which is a work of the devil and it is not permitted by God.“
Among the Shia
Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani recently took a strong position against FGM saying: “
If the purpose of female genital circumcision is cutting the clitoris this operation is not right and is not a religious tradition. If thegirl ishurt,it is prohibited.”
Fatwas critizise hadith supporting FGM as not authentic
In 1996, the Islamic scholar Muhammad Lufti Al-Sabbagh published a booklet
Islamic Ruling on Male and Female Circumcision which was funded by the World Health Organzations Regional Office in Alexandria, Egypt. Al-Sabbagh argues that the Hadiths referring to female circumcision are not confirmed and poor in authenticity. Referring to all the physical and psychological risks he concludes that FGM can not be legitimate under Islamic law, „
particularly that nothing that recommends it, is definitely established as said by the Prophet. It is, however, established that he has said: Do not harm yourself or others. This hadith is one of the basic principles of this True religion.“
In the same book Al Amin Al-Dawood argues “
The prophet says: “Tattoo-makers are cursed by God” and goes on, adding all those who tamper with God’s creation.” (..) A Hadith reported by Al Bukhari and Muslim recounts how Abdullah Ibn Masoud, a companion of the Prophet, was blamed by a woman for cursing women practicing female circumsicion. He answered: “
Why should I refrain from cursing those cursed by the Prophet.”
Muhammed Salim Al-Awwa, the General Secretary of the International Federation of Islamic Scholars, argues in the same book that all hadiths referred to by those defending or requiring female circumcision are weak in authenticity. Only one hadith is autenthic, stating that “
when the two circumcised organs meet, bathing becomes obligatory”. Al-Awwa argues that the dual case is often used in Arabic and follows the habit of calling two objects or persons after the more familiar, thus the sun and the moon may be called “the two moons”.
The popular
Sheikh Al Arefe explains on his Youtube channel: “There is a hadith saying that circumcision is a good deed to women, but it is a wajib for men (tabari) but its a weak hadith, because it has been proven that it is not a good deed, and it was a habit done by Arabs pre Islam.”<<
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Countries where FGM is concentrated according to UNICEF's 2013 report
