I keep getting the Arabic words wrong!! I’m so sorry!! I’ll get them right eventually. In sha Allahhttps://twitter.com/DrUmarAlQadri/status/1055550686388240389 …
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Yes, FGM is a CULTURAL practice--though one frequently claiming spiritual value cloaked in whatever religion happens to be dominant in the area. For example, in Nigeria (which, owing to its population, has the largest absolute numbers of FGM victims worldwide), it is practiced 1/
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...among Muslim AND CHRISTIAN populations--with greatest prevalence in Christian areas. Experts--including theologians--agree, however, that there is no actual grounding for it in either faith (or in communities of minority sects of Judaism where it can also appear, and it is 2/
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...uniformly condemned by contemporary spiritual leaders of each (see U.S. National Institutes of Health, 2012, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3507121/ …). 3/3
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Thank you for educating the lot , there are so many misconceptions about our religion unfortunately, not only this one .
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Oh yes. In my years fighting the Khawarij (Da'esh/al-Qa'ida) narrative as a US military leader, I often found myself facing THE SAME TROPES coming from OTHER WESTERNERS thinking they were patriotically helping the war effort--when they were really reinforcing ENEMY MESSAGING!

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We live in a time where there is a lot of " fitna " as we say and unfortunately religion or patriotism are used to get normal people to fight against one another while serving hidden agendas they're not even aware of at the beginning , there is a great deal of manipulation 1/
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