re: #105 CuriousLurker
Are you sure? Can you give me an example of a fatwa demanding it so I can see what dalil it was supposedly based on?
Hmm.
According to the Muslim Women’s League:
“Those who advocate for FGM from an Islamic perspective commonly quote the following hadith to argue that it is required as part of the Sunnah or Tradition of the Prophet:
‘Um Atiyyat al-Ansariyyah said: A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina. The Prophet (pbuh) said to her: Do not cut too severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband’.” 1,8
Some of what I have seen involved televised interviews with local religious leaders who supported FGM. To be honest, I don’t think many of them could base the opinion on anything but their own redolent bullshit.