Major strides
In Egypt on Sunday a girl died under general anesthetic for a genital mutilation.
Mayar Mohamed Mousa, 17, died in a hospital in the province of Suez on Sunday while under full anaesthesia, said Lotfi Abdel-Samee, the local health ministry undersecretary.
“This is something that the law has prohibited,” stressed Abdel-Samee.
Despite the ban in 2008, female genital mutilation (FGM) is still widespread in Egypt, especially in rural areas. It is practised among Muslims as well as Egypt’s minority Christians.
Christians as well as Muslims think females are dirty deformed creatures.
While 200 million women and girls worldwide have been subjected to the practise, there have been major strides in Egypt, as well as Liberia, Burkina Faso, and Kenya against FGM, according to Claudia Cappa, the lead author of a February UN children’s agency report on the issue.
“The latest figures from the Egypt Demographic and Health Survey show that we’re winning,” the United Nations Development Programme said in a report last year.
“Mothers’ attitudes are changing, too,” UNDP said.
While 92% of mothers had undergone the procedure, only 35% of them “intend to circumcise their daughters,” according to the UNDP report.
Too late for Mayar Mohamed Mousa though, as well as her sister, who was mutilated first and survived.
What did I say just yesterday? Women aren’t supposed to have strong sexual needs.
(Oh, they do? Obvious solution.)
Oh yes. That stuff isn’t there for women to have fun with – it’s there for men to have fun with, and for babies to come out of. All the fun-for-her parts need to be scraped right off.
Hirsi Ali’s description mentioned women needing hospital trips before the men could ‘have fun.’ And of course, the scarring is so horrific that many, MANY of them die trying go give birth.
I’m amazed this was being done to a 17 year old. She might have had time to have a thought or feeling of her own by that late. I wonder if her family were doing a Kellog.
And, as ever, its amazing how a practice not mentioned in the Quran or Hadith gets defended as ‘Islamic’ even by authorities who AREN’T embedded in the cultures which butcher girls. Egypt seems perhaps the worst. Is there any real historical understanding of why Copts and Muslims BOTH perpetuate this?
I’ve seen it suggested that male circumcision originated in Egypt. Maybe because the Nile water was introducing parasites under foreskins. But I’ve never seen anything about ancient Egyptians cutting girls.