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The limited, prescribed religious ritual of female circumcision has been regrettably deemed by the WHO to be a form of female genital mutilation [...] The classification of female circumcision as FGM “reinforces the image of female circumcision as a barbaric one, practiced by an uncivilised people.” Conflating the practice of female circumcision with mutilation prohibits any possibility of impartiality in considering the practice as a legitimate, protected religious rite.}} | The limited, prescribed religious ritual of female circumcision has been regrettably deemed by the WHO to be a form of female genital mutilation [...] The classification of female circumcision as FGM “reinforces the image of female circumcision as a barbaric one, practiced by an uncivilised people.” Conflating the practice of female circumcision with mutilation prohibits any possibility of impartiality in considering the practice as a legitimate, protected religious rite.}} | ||
the terms Female circumcision is often used for one, or several, practices that those using the term consider as insufficiently harmful or traumatic to merit the epithet 'mutilation'. | |||
Such practices are 'Sunnah circumcision' and (check web site - see what it includes) | |||
check brid hehir's work too | |||
because the shafi'i make FGM obligatory and because shafi'ism traditionally is associated with inifibulation, the most severe form of FGM, there has been more of a need for this argument an,d | because the shafi'i make FGM obligatory and because shafi'ism traditionally is associated with inifibulation, the most severe form of FGM, there has been more of a need for this argument an,d | ||