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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Outspoken Muslim scholar and imam, Abdullah Fatty, has defended the much criticised and outlawed female genital multination, saying Muslims should continue to practise it.<\/b><\/p>\n

Addressing worshippers during a Friday sermon at his Sukuta -Sutubato mosque, the former State House imam asserted that people who are campaigning against FGM have in most cases gone through it but have now been paid money to talk against it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll what they are saying on television against FGM is an insult both to the Islamic religion and humanity.<\/p>\n

They should be very much careful because we are not going to tolerate that from anybody. Let them know that we don\u2019t get our religion from the president, ministers, National Assembly members, chiefs or governors. We got our religion only from the Holy Qur\u2019an and the Hadith, that is the teachings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad,\u201d he said. Imam Fatty warned that anyone associating him or herself with the government so that they can pass a law that can ban Muslims to practice FGM, is deceiving him or herself, and \u201cwe are ready for anything. We must circumcise our daughters whether you like it or not. If you don\u2019t want to practise it, leave it and shut your mouth, we don\u2019t force anybody to do it. But you should not also criticise others who are willing to practise it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Saudi-trained imam said FGM is about cleanliness, a practice approved by Islam and the Prophets. He challenged the anti-FGM campaigners to come out with any Hadiths which quoted the prophet saying people should not practice it. \u201cIf they can show us that, then we will stop it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Fatty said the late Gambian gynecologist, Dr Jack Faal had said those who went through FGM deliver babies much more easily than those who have not gone through it, saying therefore all what the campaigners are claiming are baseless.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnough is enough. We are going to practise our religion as commanded by Prophet Muhammad,\u201d Imam Fatty stated.<\/p>\n

He concluded that Muslims should know that FGM had existed during the time of the Prophet Muhammad and scholars have approved that it is the Sunnah of the Prophets before him. \u201cSo if you don\u2019t know something, you should ask but don\u2019t say that FGM is not Islamic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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