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This dilemma faces not just on-the-ground charity workers, but the whole hierarchy of institutions devoted to combating FGM. To resolve the dilemma a number of propositions have evolved to support the proposition that FGM is un-Islamic. | This dilemma faces not just on-the-ground charity workers, but the whole hierarchy of institutions devoted to combating FGM. To resolve the dilemma a number of propositions have evolved to support the proposition that FGM is un-Islamic. | ||
===FGM is not required by Islam=== | ===FGM is not required by Islam=== | ||
{{Quote|[https://www.academia.edu/6142789/Egypts_Villages_Fight_Female_Genital_Mutilation_WFS_NEWS Dr Ahmed Talib, Dean of the Faculty of Sharia at Al-Azhar University]|“All practices of female circumcision and mutilation are crimes and have no relationship with Islam. Whether it involves the removal of the skin or the cutting of the flesh of the female genital organs… '''it is not an obligation in Islam'''.”}}Critics of Dr Talib's position can point out that ''<nowiki/>'not an obligation''' is no more acceptable ethical or legal or ethical position for a practice such as FGM than it is for murder, child sexual abuse or rape. | |||
'Not an obligation' is far from the same thing as 'forbidden'. The legitimacy of an act that is not obligatory can include 'tolerated', 'allowed', 'recommended' and 'highly recommended' as well as 'forbidden'. And acts that are '''not an obligation''<nowiki/>' can be virtuous (e.g. giving to charity), vicious (e.g. murder), or ethically neutral (e.g. owning a dog). | |||
His first sentence ("All practices of female circumcision and mutilation are crimes and have no relationship with Islam") sets up the expectation that FGM is an act that should be forbidden. Which raises the question of why he fails to deliver the obvious corollary of this in his conclusion - that FGM is forbidden in Islam. Instead his conclusion is ambiguous - failing as it does to foreclose the possibility that, for all his condemnation of the practice, that FGM might nevertheless be virtuous and highly recommended in Islam. | |||
It should also be noted that the Shafi'i school of Islam and some Hanbali scholars have ruled FGM obligatory. | It should also be noted that the Shafi'i school of Islam and some Hanbali scholars have ruled FGM obligatory. | ||