Just curios. Does the Quran actually require this, or is it a cultural thing not practiced in all Muslim countries?
Female circumcision is a cultural / tribal ritual practiced in a minority of muslim countries, Basically in African countries, where pagans, animists, and even some christian tribes also preform the procedure. It was practiced thousands of years before Islam was a religion.
To answer your question: There is nothing in the Quran or the Hadith's requiring the surgery be preformed. In fact, is is not even mention in the Quran. ...