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From: martillo@csd2.UUCP (Joachim Martillo)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Lies Re Islam
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 20:13:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  9 20:13:00 1985
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I am uninterested in getting into some idiotic argument about
something which is easily verifiable as fact.  I suggest the
interested take a look at the articles khitan and khafd (khifad) in
the Encyclopedia of Islam.  Khitan means circumcision (or
excision)  and is used indifferently for males and females. 
Khafd refers specifically to excision.  The articles state that
the various schools of Islamic jurisprudence dispute whether
excision is obligatory or merely commendable.  The author of the
second article is clearly ashamed of the practice and tries to
minimize the importance of the practice within Islamic society.

The disgusting East African practice to which Bray refers is not
excision but rather infibulation which has generally been
condemned by Islamic religious leaders.