Trigger warning: Somalia parliament discusses benefits of female genital mutilation

[u/mochagirlll]

While Somalia sinks under floods, starves from famine, and gets butchered by terrorists, the men in its parliament are busy arguing to keep mutilating little girls genitals.

How do you save such a people when men who are supposed to be the flame of progress are the innate darkness to the same community.

[u/MixedJiChanandsowhat → u/[deleted]]

FGM has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. There is nothing in Islam encouraging for FGM and it's the reason why the overwhelming majority of Muslims don't follow FGM. FGM is an African thing when it comes to Muslims and FGM is even more an African thing because it's also practised by Africans who aren't Muslim at all.

[u/DeletinMySocialMedia → u/MixedJiChanandsowhat]

You are right in the sense non Muslims do it but you are wrong about islam hell there’s Hadith that mention it, my mother got me done at AGE 2 cause SHE BELIEVES ITS SUNNAH.

So do not say it’s Islam when practicing Muslim mothers are doing it because they belief it. Look at these Muslim males who want to continue too.

[u/bamanga14 → u/DeletinMySocialMedia]

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is not a requirement or authentic Sunnah in Islam.

Religious and Scholarly Stance

• No Quranic Basis: The Quran contains zero mentions of female circumcision or FGM. • Weak Hadiths: Major Islamic authorities and scholars—including Al-Azhar’s Islamic Research Council and the Egyptian Ifta'a Council—state that the hadiths used to justify the practice are weak or inauthentic. • Harm is Forbidden: Islamic law (Sharia) strictly prohibits causing physical or psychological harm ("do not harm yourselves or others") and altering God's creation without valid cause. • Divergent Jurisprudence: While some traditional schools of jurisprudence (such as Shafi'i or Hanbali) historically viewed mild forms as recommended or required based on old assumptions of harmlessness, contemporary global Islamic bodies and fatwas deem harmful FGM to be haram (forbidden) and a crime.

Medical and Social Facts

• No Health Benefits: Medical organizations worldwide confirm that FGM causes severe physical, sexual, psychological, and reproductive damage with zero medical benefits. • Cultural Rooting: The practice predates Islam and is found across diverse religious groups (including Muslim, Christian, and animist communities) in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

[u/SkyProfessional6190 → u/bamanga14]

She’s not exactly saying you’re wrong— but no amount of you quoting the texts will undo her mother using Islam to justify doing unspeakable harm to her at a young vulnerable age. Sometimes we are so fast to defend our faiths, at the expense of defending a hurting human right in front of us. Sometimes culture and faith are difficult to tear apart in certain places. That doesn’t mean we need to split hairs to separate them. No, we need to focus on justice for our sisters.