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![]() Qaradawi Calls On Ending Female Circumcision, Considers It Banned In Islamic Law
President of the International Union for Muslim Scholars Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi affirmed in a fatwa (an Islamic edict) published on his website the absence of any legal evidence in the Islamic religion which obliges female circumcision or makes it a preferable act adding that if a certain action is proven by specialists to cause harmful results stopping this act would be obliged in order to block any route to corruption and to prevent harm. In this case, specialists found that circumcis
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President of the International Union for Muslim Scholars Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi affirmed in a fatwa (an Islamic edict) published on his website the absence of any legal evidence in the Islamic religion which obliges female circumcision or makes it a preferable act adding that if a certain action is proven by specialists to cause harmful results stopping this act would be obliged in order to block any route to corruption and to prevent harm. In this case, specialists found that circumcision in its current form harms females physically and psychologically as it negatively affects their marital life, therefore Al-Qaradawi considered the conduction of a circumcision surgery banned according to Islamic law. |
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Posted in Activites , Human Rights , Islamic Issues , Women |
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