Sometime ago there was a topic that people were talking on circumcision. On my way to home, I received a U.A.E.(B.A.E. in Turkish) newspaper(Gulf News) in the airplane. There was a news about that. I just want to share it with you.

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Egyptian girl dies during circumcision:
Facility shut and doctor being quizzed.

Cairo(AFP) a 13-year-old Egyptian girl has died during an illegal operation to mutilate her genitalia, the Al Masri Al Yom daily reported yesterday.
Karima Rahim Massud died as the result of problems with the anasthaesia in the Nile Delta village of Gharbiya.
Her death was discovered after her father sought a death certificate from another doctor.
The medical practice where the operation took place has been closed, and the doctor is being interrogated, the newspaper said.
Female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, is a practice that dates back to pharaonic times in Egypt.
It is common in a band that stretches from Senegal in West Africa to Somalia on the East Coast, and from Egypt in the north to Tanzania in the south. The practice, which affects both Muslim and Christian women in Egypt, was banned in 1997 but doctors were allowed to operate "in exceptional cases".
Female circumcision can cause death through hemorrhaging and later complications during childbirth. It also carries risks of infection, urinary tract problems and mental trauma.

Banned
In June, following the death of 12-year-old Bedur Ahmad Shaker, Health Minister Hatem Al Gabali issued a decree banning every doctor and member of the medical profession from performing the procedure.
The ban must still be translated into law and could face a tough debate in parliament, but is likely to be passed.
A government survey in 2000 said the practice was carried out on 97 percent of the country's women aged between 15 and 45 years of age.
Religious leaders, usually silent on taboos relating to female sexuality, have also started to speak out against the practice, which many Egyptians believe is a duty under Islam and Christianity. After the death of Shaker, chief mufti Ali Gomaa declared female circumcision forbidden under Islam.
Mohammad Sayyed Tantawi, the Shaikh of Al Azhar University, the top Sunni Muslim authority, and Coptic Patriarch Chenouda III also declared it had "no foundation in the religious texts" of either Islam or Christianity.
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Besides the horrible act itself, I find awful that her father wanted a death certificate telling her death was 'a natural death'! Mutulating your daughter and then say 'it is natural'?

For those of you who want to know in which countries it occurs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_cutting

This act only in Egypt and some African countries neighboring. Egyptian intellectuals trying to get rid of this phenomenon, but the insistence of ignorant people due to historical periods have nothing to do with the religion of Islam or Christian

no problem canim
we are only speaker on nothing

im sure you will tell me about this meeting
ok canim take your time of rest and I represented you to do a lot of NOTHING this evening ,
really i have NOTHING, only reply you,

Call me ignorant, but a girl being circumsized?

interestingly it happens only in muslim (african) communities.
the reason its been done is so that a woman wont be able to cheat on her husband.

No, sorry but I have never heard of this. Would you like to enlighten me with this?

teaschip
the key word "female circumcision" in google and you ll see all the horror of this fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_cutting

I agree you can't blame Islam for this - but let's not detract from the horror of it. I can't begin to imagine what those poor woman suffer. Until I read the link I didn't know about the childbirth problems as well.

It is truly vile - and it seems, part of everyday life in Somalia....

aferin sana CANLY

To STOP accusing Islam in things whom innocent of it
ok AEnigma, thats all right
we will see the othere what will post as i PM you

As far as I can see, only ONE person is blaming Islam. Lets not turn this into a religious issue. It is a cultural issue and a horrible one.

And Canli I was referring to the extreme "circumcision/butchery" which occurs in Somalia. After they are "healed" girls are cut "open" with a knife on their wedding night and then cut open further everytime they have a child. They then have to be sewn up and have their legs tied together after each child, to "heal" up again.

But I guess it's worth it because apparently it increases the man's pleasure.

What a wonderful world...

Thanks Trudy
as i read in it
;The Grand Mufti and the head of the Coptic Church said female circumcision had no basis either in the Koran or in the Bible.

and as CANLI said not all egyption do that

Don't believe everything you read .
İ wonder how did they get that statistic tho ?
Asked every woman ?! Doubt it,unless they've got a good slap on their faces !