Egyptian mutilations

[mismused]

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[rgraham666]

I'm wondering how the people that advocate this would react if we told them cutting the cocks off of teenaged guys would help protect their honor.

 

[SesameStreet]

I have had no use for radical Muslims after 9/11. but reading about these horrific mutilations performed on your girls I would like for someone who calls himself a moderate Muslim to explain to me how this could be considered to be reasonable by anyone's standards.

Just another reason that I am thankful to having been born in the USA. Islam has not yet taken over this country and I don't think it ever will.

 

[starrkers]

I'm wondering how the people that advocate this would react if we told them cutting the cocks off of teenaged guys would help protect their honor.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[cloudy]

I have had no use for radical Muslims after 9/11. but reading about these horrific mutilations performed on your girls I would like for someone who calls himself a moderate Muslim to explain to me how this could be considered to be reasonable by anyone's standards.

Just another reason that I am thankful to having been born in the USA. Islam has not yet taken over this country and I don't think it ever will.

It has zilch to do with Muslims: "It is practiced by Muslims and Christians alike..."

Please, read and comprehend before doing what most in the US adore doing: blaming everything wrong in the world on people of another religion besides Christianity.

 

[Belegon]

Yes, this is not a religious atrocity... it is sexist, it is misogynistic, it is barbaric... but the religion side of it is irrelevant.

Personally, I think even calling it "circumcision" is sad.... mutilation is better, but I think if they are going to try and relate it to a procedure traditionally performed on males they should use the only appropriate phrase and call it "female castration".

 

[WRJames]

FGM -- as noted in the article -- is not a religious custom per se -- it is an ethnic custom widely practiced throughout much of Africa -- both Arab and black populations.

In addition to clitorectomy, infibulation is also often a part of it.

If you are brave enough, there is a novel about this at the Club Lighthouse Publishing site:

The Ever Untitled: Norah's Story

 

[Guest]

Not a custom per se.

It is done in the name of religion, just like much else.

Don't be mislead by the article. In Egypt it is not a case of one girl dying here and there, most girls in the villages go through it, and you would not hear about their deaths.

This phenomena exists also among certain populations in Israel. It has spread along with emigrating populations to just about every country in Europe.

Maharat

 

[Chantilyvamp]

ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch *cringes more* ouch!

 

[MrsDeathlynx]

I was going to say that it happens in other places as well, not just in Egypt. I find it crude and unnecessary, but is it any worse than the way we impose ideal men or women images on our teenagers who will do anything to maintain those images? This often times brings harm to them, I'm sure death sometimes but it leaves them with a fragile mental state that often times can't be recovered for once they fall.

 

[Pure]

scary stuff, mismused. although this 'story' is undoubted just an instance of such deaths hitting the papers. i'm sure it happens routinely, outside of reporting in the press, same as 'honor killing', rape as punishment for relatives misbehavior,etc. killing a disobedient daughter, or adulterous wife, of course, is not unknown in Xtian lands.