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Current practice and the hadith suggest that females in Muhammad's circle would have been circumcised in childhood.  In the [[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox2#Someone to Amuse Them|hadith narrated by Umm ‘Alqama]] the persons being cut are clearly children, and the function of Islamic FGM (see [[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#The sociology of FGM|The Origins of FGM]], Islamic Doctrine that creates social conditions favourable to FGM and the Functions of FGM ) requires that it be prepubescents who are submitted to FGM, not adolescents or adults.Therefore it is unlikely that Muhammad would have needed to command or require the circumcision of his wives, since they would have already been circumcised before he married them.   

FGM in Islamic cultures is matriarchal custom, a taboo and secretive affair, usually arranged by female relatives. The hadith '[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#Do not cut .22severely.22|do not cut severely]]' and '[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#One Who Circumcises Other Ladies|One who circumcises other ladies]]' depict women performing the mutilation, not men. Male family members are excluded and may not even realise that their community engages in the practice. <ref>[http://archive.today/2021.04.09-081411/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/08/victim-fgm-speaking-out-cut-genitals-culture-of-silence I’m a survivor of female genital cutting and I’m speaking out – as others must too - Maryum Saifee]</ref> For example, it is possible for an educated young man from Oman (which is reported to have a 95.5% FGM-rate. <ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326191394_Female_Genital_Mutilation_in_the_Middle_East_Placing_Oman_on_the_Map Female Genital Mutilation in the Middle East: Placing Oman on the Map, June 2018, Hoda Thabet & Azza Al-Kharousi]</ref>) to be not only unaware that FGM exists in his country, but also to be unaware that his own mother and sisters have undergone the procedure.  

{{Quote|[http://archive.today/2021.04.09-082018/https://fgmtruth.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/a-response-to-delinking-female-genital-mutilation-cutting-from-islam-part-2/ A Response to ‘Delinking Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting from Islam’ – part 2]|It is certainly the case that Islamic FGM today is secretive - brothers often not being aware that their sisters have been 'cut'. Indeed, the author witnessed this when being assisted in his research by an Omani university student. The young man knew of FGM, but believed that Oman was free of the practice. He was stunned on being shown surveys that found FGM-rates of between 75 to 95% in Oman. Soon afterwards he was further stunned when, after having mentioned the subject to a sister, he learnt that she, his others sisters and mother had all undergone FGM}}