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 {{Quote|[https://unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/De-linking%20FGM%20from%20Islam%20final%20report.pdf 'Delinking Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting from Islam'] by Ibrahim Lethome Asmani & Maryam Sheikh Abdi (2008)|'Shafi’i view it as wajib (obligatory) for both females and males'}}
-'Reliance of the Traveller' by by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (1302–1367) is the Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law according to Shafi'i School. {{Quote|''Reliance of the Traveler'' [''Umdat al-Salik''], Section e4.3 on Circumcision|'''Obligatory (on every male and female) is circumcision.''' (And it is the cutting-off of the skin [''qat' al-jaldah''] on the glans of the male member and, '''as for the circumcision of the female, that is the cutting-off of the clitoris')}}'''Nuh Ha Mim Keller's 1991 translation of Reliance of the Traveller is bowdlerised to make its content more acceptable to Western eyes and translates the word 'bazr' ( بَظْرٌ ) as 'clitorial prepuce' instead of simply 'clitoris' (see section [[#Defining Bazr|Defining Bazr)]].'''
+'Reliance of the Traveller' by by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (1302–1367) is the Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law according to Shafi'i School. {{Quote|''Reliance of the Traveler'' [''Umdat al-Salik''], Section e4.3 on Circumcision|'''Obligatory (on every male and female) is circumcision.''' (And it is the cutting-off of the skin [''qat' al-jaldah''] on the glans of the male member and, '''as for the circumcision of the female, that is the cutting-off of the clitoris')}}Nuh Ha Mim Keller's 1991 translation of Reliance of the Traveller is bowdlerised to make its content more acceptable to Western eyes and translates the word 'bazr' ( بَظْرٌ ) as 'clitorial prepuce' instead of simply 'clitoris' (see section [[#Defining Bazr|Defining Bazr)]].
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 The underlying assumption of this argument is that ''only those practices which all Muslims engage in can be Islamic.''
-First, as is clear from above the baseline stance that Islam takes on FGM is that it can't be forbidden. For a practice such as FGM this is not the correct base line - a parallel would be a religion that allows murder or rape.
+Islamic doctrine can not forbid FGM. This is no more an ethically acceptable position for a religion to take - than to 'not forbid' murder, child sexual abuse or rape.
-Second, there are many practices in Islam that are optional.
+This argument also assumes that what is 'Islamic' consists solely of that which is either obligatory or forbidden. But religions are also defined by what they encourage and discourage, by what they allow and tolerate. For example, no one would question that the Eucharist (Holy Communion) is Christian, but it is recommended, not obligatory.
-The assumption underlying this argument is that what is 'Islamic' consists solely of that which is either obligatory or forbidden. But this is wrong; religions are also defined by what they encourage, discourage, what they allow and tolerate. For example, no one would question that the Eucharist, Holy Communion, is Christian, but it is recommended, not obligatory.
 this obfuscation arises because different schools of Islam take slightly different stances on FGM: the shaafi making it mandatory. The Hanbali and some branches of Maliki islam seem to highly recommend it. Hafani Islam seems to merely recommend or allow it.