Jill24447
Female circumcision has nothing to do with Islam – it existed long before Islam and is not practiced in most Muslim countries. It’s mainly in East African (especially Somalian, and some Sudanese) and seems to be cultural. There is nothing in the Quran that says females must be circumcised – like I say, it’s cultural, like male circumcision. I don’t know about the U.S. but I know that it is occasionally done (although illegal) in the UK among the Somali community and others from NE Africa. But please, don’t think it’s a ‘Muslim thing’ because it really isn’t. I’m not a Muslim myself but do have Muslim friends and live in a Muslim area (South Asian) and it hurts them when people slur them with this kind of thing by mistakenly thinking it’s something all Muslims do.