Ilhan Omar Said Something Which Makes Sense

Ilhan Omar is a member of the US Congress and a Muslim She is viewed as a far left politician .
Female Genital Mutilation (female circumcision ) is required in Islam .
She publicly called FGM , evil , vile and abhorrent . I agree with her view .
Does this make her an Islamaphobe ?

@caissad4 said
Female Genital Mutilation is required in Islam .
She publicly called FGM , evil , vile and abhorrent . I agree with her view .
Does this make her an Islamaphobe ?

Whether FGM is seen as "required in Islam", and whether you'd be seen as Islamophobic for thinking it is not required and for thinking it was wrong, surely depends on which Muslim you are talking to.

@fmf said
Whether FGM is seen as "required in Islam", and whether you'd be seen as Islamophobic for thinking it is not required and for thinking it was wrong, surely depends on which Muslim you are talking to.

Actually it is stated directly in the Quran and hadiths . It states that FGM is required .

@caissad4 said
Actually it is stated directly in the Quran and hadiths . It states that FGM is required .

I'm the wrong person to chat to about this, then, if that's what you believe. Perhaps you should be talking to someone who thinks you are right.

There are thousands of interpretations of Christianity .
There are thousands of interpretations of Islam .

@caissad4 said
Ilhan Omar is a member of the US Congress and a Muslim She is viewed as a far left politician .
Female Genital Mutilation (female circumcision ) is required in Islam .
She publicly called FGM , evil , vile and abhorrent . I agree with her view .
Does this make her an Islamaphobe ?

FGM is native to a particular region, specifically a belt across central Africa.

http://www.fgm.co.nz/where-is-fgm-practiced

There is evidence that the practise was exported to Indonesia and is not native to that region.

http://www.stopfgmmideast.org/countries/indonesia/

It is likely that this practise, along with child marriage, predated Islam. Mohammed did not invent it. Moreover, not all schools of Islam view FGM as obligatory.

Neither did Mohammed invent the Haj. Pilgrimage to a rock in the desert was part of the nomadic culture of Arabia long before Mohammed; Mohammed merely gave it a different symbolic significance.

@moonbus said
FGM is native to a particular region, specifically a belt across central Africa.

http://www.fgm.co.nz/where-is-fgm-practiced

There is evidence that the practise was exported to Indonesia and is not native to that region.

http://www.stopfgmmideast.org/countries/indonesia/

It is likely that this practise, along with child marriage, predated Islam. Mohammed did not i ...[text shortened]... c culture of Arabia long before Mohammed; Mohammed merely gave it a different symbolic significance.

Exactly my point. There is no one interpretation of Islam .
The "big box " was a pilgrimage site for polytheists long before Islam ever existed .
It was obviously built by polytheists , not Abraham .

@caissad4 said
There are thousands of interpretations of Christianity .
There are thousands of interpretations of Islam .

But you just got done saying that the correct interpretation is that women should be circumcised.

Are you saying that you don't know?

@whodey said
But you just got done saying that the correct interpretation is that women should be circumcised.

Are you saying that you don't know?

Still working on the whole English comprehension thing , are you ?

@caissad4 said
Still working on the whole English comprehension thing , are you ?

"Actually it is stated directly in the Quran and hadiths . It states that FGM is required"

This is what you wrote. Do you stand behind this or do you think it was misinterpreted?

@whodey said
"Actually it is stated directly in the Quran and hadiths . It states that FGM is required"

This is what you wrote. Do you stand behind this or do you think it was misinterpreted?

I do not stand behind religious texts . I only read them (and chuckle) .
As I said there are many interpretations . Just like Christianity .
Many adherents of religions take one from column A and one from column B .

@caissad4 said
I do not stand behind religious texts . I only read them (and chuckle) .
As I said there are many interpretations . Just like Christianity .
Many adherents of religions take one from column A and one from column B .

So you have no idea then?

It seems to me you do and are simply back peddling now.

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And where did you answer the OP ?
Please consult wikipedia and proceed .