ISLAM AND FEMALE CIRCUMCISION
Muslims in their present state argue strongly that female circumcision is not a practice legalized by the religion of Islam.
This statement is proclaimed despite of the thousands of girls over the entire Muslim world who fall victims of this practice.
It is fact however, that several of the Islamic sources and scholars through history have backed up these atrocities and openly stated that such practice is a benefit for the society since women, having lost their sexual senses (by reducing the libido) abstain from sexual promiscuity (Muhammad Ibrahim Salim, Fatwa fi khitan al-untha, in Liwa' al Islam, p.330 and Shaltut, Khitan al-untha, in Liwa' al-Islam, 1950).
In other words the sexual enjoyment is confined for the benefit of the male only.
Funny enough a male is not considered by his lifestyle to engage in sexual promiscuity. In that case a male is allowed to rape captives, slaves and engage in sexual practice with up to four wives plus his female slaves or concubines.
According to a debated Hadith: Silsilah al-Ahadith al-Da‘ifah by al-Albani, no. 1935, it says:
‘Circumcision is a Sunnah for men, and an honour for women’.
However, there are additional Hadiths which prove that female circumcision indeed was a common practice among the early Muslims, in fact the first followers of Muhammad, and the Hadiths seem to legalize it. Take a good look at Sahih Muslim, which makes a bath obligatory, say, if two circumcised parts have touched each other, under an act of intercourse (Sahih Muslim, Book 003, Number 0684).
In other words, Islam recognises and permits two circumcised parts to touch each other under the act of intercourse and after a bath is required. I doubt that the passage refers to the act of two males.
That Muhammad accepted this practice is further evidential from Dawud, as by Narrated Umm Atiyyah al-Ansariyyah:
A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina. The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said to her: Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 41, Number 5251).
Rather than condemning the practice of female circumcision Muhammad merely advised the women not to cut severely.
How does this look like?