I don't think that circumcision is harmful to health because I've read that the complications that result from performing this are pretty minor and rare. I could be wrong about that, but I haven't heard of any Muslim males having problems or difficulties because of being circumcised.
In Islam, circumcision is only compulsory for males, while for females, it is optional. Some Muslim scholars believe that circumcision is recommended for women according to certain hadiths (but not compulsory). But, even those hadiths which they bring up advise us that what is allowed is merely a slight 'trimming' of the tip of the clitoral hood. And this is not even practiced in most Islamic countries (i.e. female circumcision).
In some parts in Egypt, however, there are women who cut off their entire clitoris and this has been practiced longer than any existing historical records can show. This is also known as infibulation, or Pharaonic circumcision, but this practice doesn't have any authority in Islam according to my knowledge and it's an example of mutilation and not "circumcision" (and something which is harmful to a women's health).
Epi: I disagree that circumcision equals to mutilation. To me, circumcision is more like a type of modification, while mutilation has a serious connotation behind it.
In Islam, circumcision is only compulsory for males, while for females, it is optional. Some Muslim scholars believe that circumcision is recommended for women according to certain hadiths (but not compulsory). But, even those hadiths which they bring up advise us that what is allowed is merely a slight 'trimming' of the tip of the clitoral hood. And this is not even practiced in most Islamic countries (i.e. female circumcision).
In some parts in Egypt, however, there are women who cut off their entire clitoris and this has been practiced longer than any existing historical records can show. This is also known as infibulation, or Pharaonic circumcision, but this practice doesn't have any authority in Islam according to my knowledge and it's an example of mutilation and not "circumcision" (and something which is harmful to a women's health).
Epi: I disagree that circumcision equals to mutilation. To me, circumcision is more like a type of modification, while mutilation has a serious connotation behind it.
