FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) is called female circumcision by those doing it, but is in no way analogous to male circumcision. There are two procedures for FGM. First, excision, in which the clitoris and the labia minor are cut away. This is analogous to cutting off the whole penis in the male. Second, infundibulation, in which the labia majora are sewn together to prevent anything entering the vagina. Hard to imagine in the male, but it would be like forcing the penis back into the abdomen and then sewing the skin together to prevent it coming back out. A small opening is left for urination and menstruation, but heavy menstrual flow can lead to blockage, infection and death. On the wedding night, the groom cuts the labia majora apart and holds the sheet the wife bleeds on out the window for the neighbors and family to see she really was a virgin.
Excision is practiced thoughout the Sahel and Sahara (the Sahel is the grasslands between the Sahara desert to the north and the rainforest to the south) from Somalia and Ethiopia in the East to Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea in the west. CLICK HERE FOR MAPS.
Percent of women who suffer FGM (click in space to see map)
Percent by country
Infundibulation is practiced mainly by Arabic speakers, both in Arabia and Africa. The w...
Excision is practiced thoughout the Sahel and Sahara (the Sahel is the grasslands between the Sahara desert to the north and the rainforest to the south) from Somalia and Ethiopia in the East to Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea in the west. CLICK HERE FOR MAPS.
Percent of women who suffer FGM (click in space to see map)
Percent by country
Infundibulation is practiced mainly by Arabic speakers, both in Arabia and Africa. The w...
FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) is called female circumcision by those doing it, but is in no way analogous to male circumcision. There are two procedures for FGM. First, excision, in which the clitoris and the labia minor are cut away. This is analogous to cutting off the whole penis in the male. Second, infundibulation, in which the labia majora are sewn together to prevent anything entering the vagina. Hard to imagine in the male, but it would be like forcing the penis back into the abdomen and then sewing the skin together to prevent it coming back out. A small opening is left for urination and menstruation, but heavy menstrual flow can lead to blockage, infection and death. On the wedding night, the groom cuts the labia majora apart and holds the sheet the wife bleeds on out the window for the neighbors and family to see she really was a virgin.
Excision is practiced thoughout the Sahel and Sahara (the Sahel is the grasslands between the Sahara desert to the north and the rainforest to the south) from Somalia and Ethiopia in the East to Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea in the west. CLICK HERE FOR MAPS.
Percent of women who suffer FGM (click in space to see map)
Percent by country
Infundibulation is practiced mainly by Arabic speakers, both in Arabia and Africa. The women of the Nile valley (Egypt and Sudan) frequently must endure both.
Excision was started by Jews of Ethiopia, maybe even before they crossed from Yemen into Africa with the Sheban conquest of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is still practiced by the Falasha Jews of Ethiopia (now mostly living in Israel). It spread from them to the Coptic Christians of the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti) and the Nile valley (Sudan and Egypt) With the Muslim conquest of most of this area, it was adopted by the Muslims and spread clear across Africa. Today it is mostly practiced by Muslims, many people think it is required by Islam. NOTE: Excision is never performed on babies like male circumcision because they would frequently bleed to death, nor is it performed on adolescent girls big enough to defend themselves. It is done without anesthetic, when the girl is (usually) eight to ten years old, adults hold the little girl down while one person (Usually an old woman) scrapes away the genitalia with a broken piece of glass or a razor blade.
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(more)Excision is practiced thoughout the Sahel and Sahara (the Sahel is the grasslands between the Sahara desert to the north and the rainforest to the south) from Somalia and Ethiopia in the East to Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea in the west. CLICK HERE FOR MAPS.
Percent of women who suffer FGM (click in space to see map)
Percent by country
Infundibulation is practiced mainly by Arabic speakers, both in Arabia and Africa. The women of the Nile valley (Egypt and Sudan) frequently must endure both.
Excision was started by Jews of Ethiopia, maybe even before they crossed from Yemen into Africa with the Sheban conquest of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is still practiced by the Falasha Jews of Ethiopia (now mostly living in Israel). It spread from them to the Coptic Christians of the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti) and the Nile valley (Sudan and Egypt) With the Muslim conquest of most of this area, it was adopted by the Muslims and spread clear across Africa. Today it is mostly practiced by Muslims, many people think it is required by Islam. NOTE: Excision is never performed on babies like male circumcision because they would frequently bleed to death, nor is it performed on adolescent girls big enough to defend themselves. It is done without anesthetic, when the girl is (usually) eight to ten years old, adults hold the little girl down while one person (Usually an old woman) scrapes away the genitalia with a broken piece of glass or a razor blade.
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Any adult who chooses, willingly, to modify their body is none of my business. However, FGM is performed on children almost exclusively, and is a profound violation of human rights.
It's like a mini penis and can get at little hard with excitement. This should be stimulated during sex, a man should rub it to give pleasure to the lady.
Removing this causes pain effecting child bearing and might turn a woman off to sex. This is cruel, outdated, mean, ignorant, sexist, and inhumane.
Now lets address simply circumcision
The male dominated religious and various cultures around the world that practice female genital mutilation do so to make a woman less likely to seek out sex since it is no longer pleasurable to them. For some men who have had botched circumcisions the same is very true. They cannot perform as adults and as a result have little or no willingness to seek out sex even in a marital relationship.
How could any parent be so cruel!!!
So, I don't think that any of those should be allowed on infants or (young) children. (Older) children and (early) adolescents can consent to the non-life altering modifications and (late) adolescents and adults can consent to the life altering modifications.
I don't think any modification should be illegal, I just think there should be (psychological & physical) maturity restriction/requirement.
Female Genital Mutilation Education and Networking Project
http://www.fgmnetwork.org/boo...
It appears that the incidence has dropped in some countries like Kenya,
but in countries where it was very high, like Somalia, Egypt, Sudan and Djibouti,
it has stayed high. The new election in Egypt may mean the end of progress there.
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2...
Here is another map showing where excission and infundibulation are found.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepa...
http://www.nocirc.org/symposi...
RAINBO,
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN THE U.S.,
AND HELP FOR ITS VICTIMS
Nahid Toubia
Presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations,
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 9-11, 1996.
_____________________________...
There is a growing population of African immigrant women and girls in the United States that come from countries where female genital mutilation is prevalent. However, efforts to address female genital mutilation in this country have focused primarily on legislation to prohibit the practice. Overall, there has been little attempt to offer support services to genitally mutilated women or to provide information on the health risks of female genital mutilation to families of young girls.
In response, RAINBO has launched the African Women's Health Project. Project staff are speaking with African immigrant women and men, service providers and community organizations in New York City to assess their concerns regarding female genital mutilation and their needs for information and services. Based on their input, RAINBO will design training materials ...
http://www.nocirc.org/symposi...
RAINBO,
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN THE U.S.,
AND HELP FOR ITS VICTIMS
Nahid Toubia
Presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations,
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 9-11, 1996.
_____________________________...
There is a growing population of African immigrant women and girls in the United States that come from countries where female genital mutilation is prevalent. However, efforts to address female genital mutilation in this country have focused primarily on legislation to prohibit the practice. Overall, there has been little attempt to offer support services to genitally mutilated women or to provide information on the health risks of female genital mutilation to families of young girls.
In response, RAINBO has launched the African Women's Health Project. Project staff are speaking with African immigrant women and men, service providers and community organizations in New York City to assess their concerns regarding female genital mutilation and their needs for information and services. Based on their input, RAINBO will design training materials for service providers and develop appropriate education and intervention strategies. The aim is to foster thoughtful, effective and community-based approaches to addressing female genital mutilation in the United States.
RAINBO, a not-for-profit organization that focuses on issues of women's health and human rights, has worked extensively on female genital mutilation for the past two years. The organization assists international agencies including UNICEF, UNFPA, and the World Health Organization in developing frameworks to guide their programs and policies on female genital mutilation; provides technical support to African organizations on research, training and intervention activities; organizes meetings and workshops to advance policy, technical issues and ethical approaches to addressing female genital mutilation; and facilitates information dissemination through its resource center on female genital mutilation and related topics.
_____________________________...
Nahid Toubia, M.D., founder and Executive Director of RAINBO, has worked to advance awareness and prevention of the practice of female genital mutilation for several years, conducting research, publishing articles and books, lecturing and providing training on the subject. Dr. Toubia is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in England and the first woman surgeon in Sudan, with more than 15 years experience in public hospitals in her country. She has a Masters Degree in Health Planning and Financing from the University of London and worked for four years as an associate for women's health at the Population Council in New York. She is currently an assistant professor of clinical health at Columbia University School of Public Health.
RAINBO: http://www.rainbo.org/
google RAINBO FGM to see how important this organization is.
THREE MILLION GIRLS BUTCHERED EVERY YEAR.
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8000 litle girls cut every day. Help stop it.
Abolish FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)
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Nothing sexier then a mutilated vag.
90-percent-egyptian-women-und...
I do not think anyone thinks thats okay.
How is this poll stupid?
http://www.iheu.org/node/2503
It is true that most of those doing this cruel thing are Muslim, but it is done by Christians, Jews and followers of traditional African religions as well.
We Muslims need to help stop this inhumane practice among our people.
Excision is practiced thoughout the Sahel and Sahara (the Sahel is the grasslands between the Sahara desert to the north and the rainforest to the south) from Somalia and Ethiopia in the East to Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea in the west. CLICK HERE FOR MAPS.
Percent of women who suffer FGM (click in space to see map)
Percent by country
Infundibulation is practiced mainly by Arabic speakers, both in Arabia and Africa. The w...
Excision is practiced thoughout the Sahel and Sahara (the Sahel is the grasslands between the Sahara desert to the north and the rainforest to the south) from Somalia and Ethiopia in the East to Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea in the west. CLICK HERE FOR MAPS.
Percent of women who suffer FGM (click in space to see map)
Percent by country
Infundibulation is practiced mainly by Arabic speakers, both in Arabia and Africa. The women of the Nile valley (Egypt and Sudan) frequently must endure both.
Excision was started by Jews of Ethiopia, maybe even before they crossed from Yemen into Africa with the Sheban conquest of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is still practiced by the Falasha Jews of Ethiopia (now mostly living in Israel). It spread from them to the Coptic Christians of the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti) and the Nile valley (Sudan and Egypt) With the Muslim conquest of most of this area, it was adopted by the Muslims and spread clear across Africa. Today it is mostly practiced by Muslims, many people think it is required by Islam. NOTE: Excision is never performed on babies like male circumcision because they would frequently bleed to death, nor is it performed on adolescent girls big enough to defend themselves. It is done without anesthetic, when the girl is (usually) eight to ten years old, adults hold the little girl down while one person (Usually an old woman) scrapes away the genitalia with a broken piece of glass or a razor blade.
VOTE ON THIS EARLIER QUESTION:
http://www.sodahead.com/livin...
Read much more detailed information there.
JOIN OUR GROUP AGAINST FGM:
http://www.sodahead.com/livin...
It has been 52 years since I became committed to the struggle against FGM at a meeting of women from Africa and the African diaspora in London, England. Do you know how much progress we have made? Between indigenization of education following independence from European colonialism and Islamization of Muslim societies, the problem is worse now than then. As a black Muslim woman, I am deeply embarrassed by this. I am also angry as الجحيم (Hеll). It is spreading. It is now common in most major cities of western Europe and North America. Identifying it as a Muslim practice does not help, especially in America, where the big Ethiopian and Egyptian Coptic Christian communities like Washington, D.C., do it as much as Muslims.
I wish people would think the next time they are oohing and awing over some Somali or Ethiopian beauty, remember she has no clitoris and is not interested in sex.
http://forums.soompi.com/disc...
Millions of little girls held down and butchered every year from Somalia to Senegal (east-west) and from Egypt to Tanzania (north-south). I can not but cry at the inhumanity and savagery of people doing this to their own daughters.
FGM in Uganda
http://blog.marie-elise.com.a...
It has been 52 years since I became committed to the struggle against FGM at a meeting of women from Africa and the African diaspora in London, England. Do you know how much progress we have made? Between indigenization of education following independence from European colonialism and Islamization of Muslim societies, the problem is worse now than then. As a black Muslim woman, I am deeply embarrassed by this. I am also angry as الجحيم (Hеll). It is spreading. It is now common in most major cities of western Europe and North America. Identifying it as a Muslim practice does not help, especially in America, where the big Ethiopian and Egyptian Coptic Christian communities like Washington, D.C., do it as much as Muslims.
I wish people would think the next time they are oohing and awing over some Somali or Ethiopian beauty, remember she has no clitoris and is not interested in sex.
http://forums.soompi.com/disc...
Millions of little girls held down and butchered every year from Somalia to Senegal (east-west) and from Egypt to Tanzania (north-south). I can not but cry at the inhumanity and savagery of people doing this to their own daughters.
FGM in Uganda
http://blog.marie-elise.com.a...
Abolish FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)
http://www.sodahead.com/livin...
has their own religion, I still think this should be a crime. We are made in GODS image
and NO ONE should change that.