Why do muslims practice circumcision? Did Allah make a mistake in our designs? How could Allah be wrong?

Question

If he's wrong than he's not god! If allah is not wrong than why is it prescribed in the quran? There is only one logical conclusion the Quran is not of divine origin but written by a man!

FR you assume people don't know things. These practices started in the middle east to avoid what is called dick cheese due to shortage of water. They didn't know jack **** about Aids. And to the girl before you not all religions do that! If you do accept it as an arab practice not something of divine origin!

Marissa yet again you show your ignorance what you are talking about is western studies on the subject. And don't just assume from my name that i'm hindu! I've seen plenty of atheists muhammed's in my life. You still didn't answer my question. Hypothetically if i assume what you say is evil in other religions how does that justify the evil islam is? Other religions are open to reform where as islam is fossilised to the medieval times!

Answer 1

Many religions practice circumcision. Both my son and I are circumcised and we are a Christian family. It has less to do with religion and more to do with hygiene. Jews have always practiced circumcision. Do you mean female circumcision? All religious writings have been written by man. God does not have a stenographer or a FAX machine. We interpret God's law as best we can.

Answer 2

Circumcision was a token sign of the covenant made between God and Abraham.
Since the Arabs and Jews are both descended from Abraham, they continue the tradition.

Answer 3

It is not mentioned in Quran, it is based on practices of Prophet. It is just like cutting hairs and nail. It was a custom from Prophet Abraham. Also, some people do it for pure hygienic reason.

Answer 4

Did you know that male circumcision prevents the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases? Bet you didn't! How could a man have known that if he wasn't told in a divine manner, over 1400 years ago, the AIDS virus did not even exist. It is our choice whether or not we want to live hygenically, therefore we were created in an "imperfect" manner so that we can be allowed to make that choice!

Answer 5

I believe that the Muslims are one of the 12 tribes of Israelites. There fore they follow the God Yahweh's commandments on this matter. Allah is a Jesus like figure.a prophet.

Answer 6

Someone has written here that circumcision prevents STD and AIDS!!

I have never heard a bigger joke than this. It seems muslims are not only ignorant of Islam, they are ignorant of Science too

Only God can put sense into such idiots

Answer 7

the reason why is because muslims believe they are following the first 5 books of the bible and in Genisis he tells i believe Abraham, Isaac, Jacob or Joseph or somebody to cut it off having something to do with a deal.lol.. if that made since.

Answer 8

umm, circumcision started with Abraham, its a custom subscribed to by Jews primarily, as a sign of the covenant between God and Man,

its not suprising for Islam to "inherit" this custom, as it would be somewhat logically for it to apply to both sons of Abraham, (Arabs descended from Ishmael, Nation of Israel from Isacc...)

Answer 9

HEALTH TRANSITION REVIEW, Volume 7, Supplement. (1997)
The East African AIDS epidemic and the absence of male circumcision: what is the link?..........


This a research done to inform the world that this act is not man made its ALLAH-the creator's design.

How could a man living in desert ,being illetrate would have known that.

Its true...... this proofs Quran is the words of God.




HEALTH TRANSITION REVIEW, Volume 7, Supplement. (1997)
The East African AIDS epidemic and the absence of male circumcision: what is the link?



Using circumcision to prevent HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa: the view of an African
James P.M. Ntozi

Department of Population Studies, Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

There are now two schools of thought about the link between lack of circumcision and HIV infection in Africa. One school is that of Bongaarts et al. (1989), Moses et al. (n.d.) and Caldwell and Caldwell (1994) who use geographical distribution evidence to argue that the association between lack of circumcision and a high level of HIV infection in Africa is so convincing that the likelihood of a link should be recognized and taken into account where possible in the battle against AIDS. Moses et al. (n.d.) have gone further to recommend circumcision interventions for Africa. In contrast, De Vincenzi and Mertens (1994) argue that the evidence for an association, at least from small-scale surveys, is doubtful and hence not conclusive enough to qualify circumcision as an intervention.

My view is twofold. First, as scientists we should look at the existing evidence for and against the hypothesis that lack of circumcision is positively related to HIV infection. Although many studies have shown that there is a significant association between the two variables (Bongaarts et al. 1989; Moses et al. 1990; Caldwell and Caldwell 1994), there is no evidence of a causal relationship between the two. Caldwell and Caldwell (1994) pointed out that "Positive association does not necessarily show a direct causal relationship."

De Vincenzi and Mertens (1994) make the salient point that most of the quoted studies were not designed to test a hypothesis about circumcision and did not report their methodological details for evaluation. They claim there is no evidence that enough statistical rigour was applied to the data and where, in small-scale studies, this was done by controlling for several variables like age, number of partners, contact with prostitutes, ethnic origin and birthplace, the results lost statistical significance (Greenblatt et al. 1988). Either those findings that did not fit into the conventional thinking of the hypothesis were rejected by the journals as not interesting, or the researchers did not submit them for publication for fear of rejection.

Read more in this site ..............

http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/HIV/ntozi1/


Advantages of circumcision


Reduced incidence of urinary tract infection in male infants. The incidence of urinary tract infections is lower for male babies who are circumcised compared to those who are not. The actual incidence of serious urinary tract infections is very low for all male infants, but circumcision reduces this low risk even further.
Reduced risk of penile carcinoma (tumour). The development of penile carcinoma is related to long-term penile hygiene. In cultures where neonatal circumcision is routine, such as Muslim and Jewish communities, penile carcinoma is almost non-existent. Penile carcinoma is much more common in the developing world. Uncircumcised men who practise good penile hygiene are also very unlikely to develop penile carcinoma. In the Scandinavian countries most men are uncircumcised, but penile carcinoma is very rare.
Possible reduced risk of sexually transmitted diseases. Several recent studies indicate that circumcision may help protect men from contracting sexually transmitted diseases. This appears to include reducing the risk of HIV transmission to the male. It also appears that female partners of circumcised males are less likely to develop cervical carcinoma, probably due to a lower rate of transmission of human papilloma virus infection. Not all studies have confirmed the above findings, however.
Improved hygiene

Answer 10

All religions do that...not just Islam!!