Reply #2: Female circumcism is NOT Islam

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NOWHERE in the Qur'an or the Hadiths to they talk about this. Female genital mutilation is practiced by non-Muslims in Africa and not practiced by Muslims in other parts of the world. Same with "honor killings". Anyone who thinks Islam condones or even encourages this stuff has not read the Qur'an nor talked with any Muslim who is not a fundamentalist.

You realize, I hope, that in Mohammed's time, it was common practice to leave female infants out in the desert to die. Women who were married off were robbed of their dowries and then shipped back to their parents. Women who were divorced by their husbands had no rights for child support, etc. The Qur'an changed this and the practices of the Beloved Prophet showed great respect towards women.

What has happened is a reversion to pre-Islamic barbaric practices. Wahhab, the founder of Wahhabism, the fundamentalist sect predominant in Saudi Arabia, is the chief architect of this--he played upon prejudices that were already there amongst the people and led them away from Islam to this strange aberration.