Isn't it good news that female circimcision?

Question

in Egypt has banned it after the death of a 12 year old girl? About time too. How long before other countries follow suit?

Circumcision - sorry, I forgot to do a sell check.

Ah Heather, have a look into it. It's the removal of the clitoris to stop women enjoyng sex. It's done in some Muslim countries.

Answer 1

It is absolutely brilliant news!
However, I wonder how much effect the law will actually have.
Maybe in Egyptian cities, where they are more westernised, a greater proportion of people who have it done "officially", i.e. by a doctor or nurse, will stop. But I know that out in the countryside they get together and do-it-themselves with whatever comes to hand - broken glass, hunting knives, etc. and I don't think it will have much effect on them.
A very disturbing aspect to this is the fact that this is often not a process that is performed at the request of the men. Most often it is done at the insistence of the womenfolk and that is something that appalls me.
In a lot of developing countries it is mainly the men who watch TV and keep up-to-date with current affairs. It is the women who cling to their traditions and try to uphold their "traditional" values. The men realise that times are changing and that things like this are no longer acceptable, but the women go on doing it.
It is similar to the central African tribes who force-feed their female children to make them obese (having an extremely fat wife was once a status symbol) which cuts short their lives by about forty years (women are dying from preventable heart disease in their twenties and thirties). The menfolk watch TV and know that it is "fashionable" to admire skinny celebs, but the women feed up their daughters because that is what has always been done.
New laws are a massive step forwards, but these horrible tortures (cos that's what they are) will not stop until the populations can be properly re-educated. The Koran does not state anywhere that children (male or female) should be circumcised and several imams and muftis have publically condemned the process. In fact, in the Koran, Mohammed told a woman not to carry out a female circumcision, so there can be no religious basis for it. It is almost all cultural, and that is where work is needed.
Education in the developing world is absolutely essential and would probably keep us safer as well.

Answer 2

Great news, this is surely the most vile and abominable practice carried out by humans in the name of 'culture'. Just disgusting.

Personally I feel male circumcision is also totally and completely unjustifiable in the modern world too, we have evolved to have a foreskin and it is just barbaric to remove it from someone who has no possible way of making that decision for themselves. It should be totally illegal unless there is some sort of medical need (hard to imagine). I have no problem at all with consenting adults going in for it if they want but to needlessly mutilate (yes MUTILIATE) a baby is simply child abuse. If someone tried to do that to either of my sons as babies I would be in serious danger of ending up serving a life sentence. The thought of it is just appalling.

At least male circumcision doesn't have the horrific effects that the practice on females does though. Good riddance.

Answer 3

More accurately known as Female Genital Mutilation. It's an abhorrent practice and I'm delighted it's been officially banned. That said, it will probably be a long time before the practice ceases altogether.

After all, "honour killings" are officially banned in Muslim countries, dowries are not officially permitted in India (I think) and female infanticide is illegal in the same country but all these still go on under cover.

It's a step in the right direction and, for that, it's to be welcomed.

Answer 4

Yes - I've been lobbying that (even though I'm a guy) that the world medical community push a resolution to cease the operation of this barbaric practice.

Now, the other Mid-Eastern countries need to start following suit!

I APPLAUD THIS DECISION!
THIS IS A MAJOR WIN FOR ALL HUMANITY ALL OVER THE WORLD!

Answer 5

It happens in this Country too....to boys and girls...many cultures do it ....they just hide behind close doors......its usually done here when the boy child is a few days old. For girls in this Country its as the girls hit puberty.....
Ban it by all means but its illegal here now, always has been ....and the authorities know it goes on....Hospitals sometimes have the after effects to cope with.....stitching up the butchery...No anaesthesia...no antibiotics..no after care.....

Answer 6

It's wonderful news, but as someone else here mentioned, making a law banning it and really stopping the practice are two different things. We see that all the time in Muslim countries where secular laws conflict with fundamentalist Muslim practices. For instance, most countries ban "honor killings" but it still happens on a regular basis.

Answer 7

I believe its 25% of these girls die or have other serious problems after the circumcision.

It alarms me that there are people who don't know it's going on, and all over the world.

This is a positive step, but somehow I think it's still going on in Egypt. And there are many other countries that have no plans of banning it.

Very, very sad and wrong.

Answer 8

Yes I agree. Its a senseless act and acheives nothing except to a narrow minded people in some countries.. No child should be put through this senseless pain.. It beggers belief that in the year 2007 that some countries are commiting such acts that should have been confined to the middle ages..

Answer 9

It is a vile thing to do to a Girl.

Anyone caught practising the 'art' should have his dick sawn off with a blunt rusty knife in public.

That may just stop it, but I doubt it.

But some Barmy Mullah will shout that it is righteous and anyone punished will have a direct path to heaven with a dozen slave maidens for his pleasure.

The ignorant will believe.

Answer 10

yes its a good thing and hopefully a lot less will now occur , it wont stop altogether as many people are brainwashed into thinking it is right

i always wonder about the first person who did this to a little girl , it must of been a peadophile with a sick warped mind