Quotes About Excision

And yet circumcision is an act that, according to the fiqh, is in no way compulsory. It is a sunna act, that is to say, one that is strongly recommended. The excision of girls is even less obliga­tory. It is a makruma: a pious practice, like removing a stone from the road, clearing a public drain or maintaining a collective watertap.

Excision of girls, as we have said, was a widely tolerated prac­tice. In principle, it ought to concern only the removal of the lower part of the cap. In fact, as we know, what is involved, except in abnormal cases, is only the semi-prepuce, which covers only the lower part of the clitoris. The excision of girls (khif??) must not therefore be confused with clitoridectomy. The former is tolerated, the latter strictly prohibited. Indeed it is the only indication provided by tradition.

Circumcision, like excision indeed, is more a practice of Muslims than a practice of Islam.

Merely methodological excision from the soul of the imagination that projects Gods and heroes onto the wall of the cave does not promote knowledge of the soul; it only lobotomizes it, cripples its powers.

Beecher described slavery as an 'organic sin,' by which he meant that a sing that permeates the body politic so completely that it cannot be cured by targeted excision but must be overwhelmed with an infusion of love.

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

his Calvinism would not outlast his undergraduate education, though its excision would be long and painful.