Egypt: 97% of married women undergo genital mutilation

by Kal El on December 17, 2008 · Comments

If allah didn’t want women to have a fully functional set of genitals, why did he design them with one to begin with?

(ANSAmed) – CAIRO, JUNE 27 – A total 97% of the married Egyptian women has suffered genital mutilation, and the area where this practice is most frequent (99%) is in the governorship of Qena, in the south of the country. In Matrouh, on the Mediterranean coast towards Libya, the lowest percentage (25%) is registered. According to the study ‘National Project Against Female Circumcision’, held by the Minister of Health in cooperation with the United Nations DAG Programme, the percentage is lower in the urban centres (94.6%), higher in the country (98.8%), while in the Sinai it decreases to 37%, Egyptian independent daily ‘Al Masri el Yom’ reports. Among uneducated women, 99.1% have suffered the circumcision; among educated women (secondary school or university), the percentage gets down to 94%. The percentage of women in favour of the circumcision is 85% in Upper Egypt compared to 50% in the North; 50% of the educated women and 87.5% of the uneducated women are also in favour. Two days ago the Chief Mufti of Egypt said that the “harmful tradition of the female circumcision is prohibited by Islam”, after the death of an 11-year old girl following an excessive dose of anesthetic given during the operation. The wife of the Egiptian president, Suzanne Mubarak, who is in charge of the government’s consulting commission for Maternity and Childhood, launched today a “national campaign against female circumcision”. (ANSAmed).

And what’s up with women actually being FOR having their genitals mutilated? Can anyone say “brainwashed drone”?

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  • Robert B.
    Yet you have no problem with Male genital mutilation? Do you really think men would willingly have 60% of the nerves destroyed when the foreskin is removed? Grow up.
  • Beejj
    Further to that which I just wrote, why, other than for religious observance, is circumcision of male infants practised? For claimed health benefits. Why do Muslims chop off the most sensitive part of a girl's anatomy? For health benefits? Yeah, and Mohammed was a member of the Salvation Army.
  • hellosnackbar
    FGM is without doubt the filthiest example of perversion within the perverse pantheon of Islam.
  • Beejj
    60%??????? Do you just pick these figures out of a hat? Clearly you do. What utter tosh! Do you honest-to-God believe that removal of the foreskin is akin to that of the clitoris? Verily, you have much to learn about the female anatomy, but as you grow up enlightenment will surely come. For your information, oh wise anatomist, removal of the glans penis is the male equivalent of clitoridectomy. Crossing your legs, are you?
  • The truth: Sad that you had that experience in Egypt :( I went there and I loved it, regardless of the way the men act there - I met some very respectful men there too...and I thought Dubai had more perverted men! I guess I just knew how to deal with perverted men and how to stop them from hooting etc.

    About the article, that is so sad :( I feel utterly disgusted every time I hear about it, and feel anger towards people who condone female genital mutilation :(
  • The truth
    I feel sorry for Egyptian women. They must be the most repressed of all Muslim women. Up to 90% of them have their clits removed through circumcision to prevent them from turning into sexual deviants. There goes a lifetime of sexual problems when they get married. On top of that, they get constantly harassed by their men on the streets day and night.. They have no rights whatsoever. I went to Egypt last year & never again. I have never come across a more perverted group of men in my whole entire life. It beggars belief the way some of these Muslim women will defend a faith that oppresses them so much
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