Muslims Against Circumcision

Promoting love and kindness towards children, upholding the principles of love and kindness, and respect for human rights intrinsic in Islam.

* Muslims do not need to circumcise children. If a person wants to be circumcised they can always decide for themselves as an adult when they are able to make these choices for themselves. This is the kind and compassionate thing to do.

Islam teaches kindness, and love, and to respect our bodies and not cause mutilations of them. The islam religion can exist, and will be stronger morally and ethicall, without circumcision of children or unconsenting persons. . Asserting human rights and the right of every person to make the decision for this and every other permenant and medically invalid mutilation of the body will improve Islams stature and reinforce core islamic principles of kindness and respect for human rights. Letting circumcision be a choice each person makes for him or herself goes with and promotes the Circumcision goes against Islamic values of kindness and not causing harm or suffering to others, in addition to the universal human rights to physical integrity and to be respectful of the right of other persons to an intact body that is inalienable and a natural right of all persons.

* Circumcision is not mentioned anywhere in the Quran but the Quran clearly states not to cause harm to children . Any sort of cutting into and removal of body parts which have no scientifically and medically abnormal condition that requires of this of last case resort after all other options are failed and where it is necessary to protect a persons life, must be considered mutilation. What makes it mutilation is the nature of the act itself, Circumcision violates basic human rights by violating the right of physical integrity of every person

* Both female and male circumcision are wrong, and equal rights and human rights which apply universally irrespective of gender or age, demands that we provide equal protection to all members of our society, regardless of gender. Thus MAC takes the only reasonable, ethical, humane, and fair position, respecful of the bodily intefitity of all persons and the princles of kind, respect, and for the basic human rights of every person from practices that remove normal parts of their body without a valid medical reason, that must be inherit in all truly ethical and humane societies.

* We must apply our ethics equally to makes and females. It is not okay to mutilate males and not females and vice versa, we must be sensitive to the emotions of all persons and not cause them pain and harm, regardless of gender. It is not any more acceptable to cut into a boys body than it is a girls body, nor are boys entitled to fewer rights, or nor it is acceptable to give them cons=uderabtion fo their own rights not to be mutilated and to make their own decisions on permenant and truly medically unjustified practices for themselves as an adult.

* A person can only truly make a choice for themselves as to the value of a body part when they are allowed to have that body part for themselves. Most people in Muslim countries have forgotten the true nature of the foreskin, and that it is actually one of the more trouble free parts of the body, very easy to care for, and actually protective and disease resistant.

* It is never or moreal or wthical to remove normal or healthy parts of any childs body no matter what the reason which is being used to give an excuse to do this. Good medicine demands that we only treat medical conditions with amputations as a last case resort to treat a true medical abnormality on the parts to be amputated.
Muslims Against Circumcision is opposed to acts of violence, and circumcision is an act of violence on children. We understand that most parents believe that they are not harming their children and are innocent of intentionally causing harm to their children. We forgive all who have who have taken part in this practice, and at the same time welcome all into respecting human rights and bodily integrity, and leaving our children whole and intact and respecting their rights to physical integrity and not have their bodies ritualistically altered. We understand, and we forgive ourselves for circumcision but we at the same time want to educate about this practice and how it can be ended. We can, and it is important to realise that we need to realise the practice is harmful, and that it thus needs to be ended, but at the same time we need to forgive each other, and to apologise for this, and realise, that were not fully informed about the ethical issues and the unnecessary nature, and truths about circumcision. It is our intention to use peaceful means, to help end the mutilation of children, and this means using words and explaining to people and helping people understand the issue. We believe most people are rationale, kind, and loving, and that most people will see the reasonableness and the logic in what we are proposing, that we should leave the bodies of girls and boys alone and not mutilate or alter healthy body parts of the bodies of the most helpless, innocent, and vulnerable members. Our campaign is one against violence of all sorts, to end violence and promote peace, love and kindness. Helping people understand that leaving children whole and intact is the only reasonable, logical, kind, and humane thing to do, will end a major source of human suffering and degradation of human rights.

The ethical principles and universal human rights to physical integrity can be accepted by people of any religion or denomination. It crosses all cultural, national and religious boundaries, that we all have the same basic need, to be safe and live in a society that respects our right to a whole body, to live in peace and being respectful of others rights to a whole body, and others respecting our own likewise. This includes to not have parts of our bodies removed while we are vulnerable, our most vulnerable time, when we are children. Leaving our children whole and as they are meant to be, and how Allah created them and wants them, is the most humane, ethical, kind thing we can do, coming from their heart, and showing love and respect for our children. We need to bring our children up in a violence of love and kindness, and teaching respect by example, by respecting their most basic right to physical integrity and to not be violated physically.

2007 Muslims Against Circumcision