Posted on 06/29/2007 11:17:12 AM PDT by stm
CAIRO, Egypt — The death of a 12-year-old Egyptian girl at the hands of a doctor performing female circumcision in the country's south has sparked a public outcry and prompted health and religious authorities this week to ban the practice.
The girl, Badour Shaker, died earlier in June while being circumcised in an illegal clinic in the southern town of Maghagh. Her mother, Zeniab Abdel Ghani, told the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper that she had paid $9 dollars to a female physician to perform the procedure.
The mother also told the paper that the doctor later tried to bribe her to withdraw a lawsuit accusing the physician of murder, in return for $3,000, but she refused.
A forensic investigation into the case showed the girl's death was caused by an anesthesia overdose during the procedure.
The case sparked widespread condemnation and was closely followed in Egyptian papers, which also reported that Shaker had passed out sweets to pupils in her class earlier on the day of her death, to celebrate her good grades.
It also evoked memories of a 1995 CNN television documentary depicting a barber circumcising a 10-year-old girl in a Cairo slum.
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These "people" are medieval animals.
I’m surprised (that they’re using anesthetics)... absolute shame.
At least she didn't feel anything. Most of time time, they do it without anesthesia at all (not even alcohol).
When women do things they don't like, they try to make the death as painful, brutal and tortorous as possible. This girl is "lucky."
don’t get tooo self righteous...Western world has:
1) sex-change operation (if that ain’t genital
mutilation, I give up)
2) murder of ex-wifes or girlfriends for not
having abortions, or for disputes over who gets
child custody.
3)Girls having to take birth control pills, Gardasil,
guys having to wear condoms, getting your AIDS tests,
young kids worrying about whether they’re still gonna
be virgins by age 16, bathhouses, peep-shows...
Westerm world ain’t too hot either.
I wonder why the womens libbers aren’t fighting for
the mothers and/or childs choice to have the
surgical mutilation done in Egypt without having to
go to an “illegal” clinic....c’mon libbers...
let’s see you fight for the right of these peoples
choice to live their own life, their own way.
Don’t even sit here for one minute and compare girls on birth control to CHOPPING OFF THE CLITORIS OF LITTLE GIRLS.
Sex-change operations are one thing, but they only involve the individual f**ed up enough to do it. Genital mutiliation in the ME is involuntary and forced upon them by Muslim morons who think a woman capable of having an orgams is some sort of evil being.
Sex change operations are are a personal choice, not some insane rite from a fake religion. I don’t think the little girl had any say in the matter. Wommen in Islam are treated like pond scum. Hell, the men treat their dogs better than they treat their women.
1) sex-change operation (if that ain’t genital mutilation, I give up)
Moral equivalency stupidity, plain and simple. If you can't understand the HUGE difference between FORCED FGM of children and adults CHOOSING to have a sex change operation, then you are beyond hope. (Did not bother reading past that line in the post -- what would be the point?)
orgams = orgasm.
Sex change ops are voluntary choices and murder is murder in all civiliized societies. These poor girls have no choice at all.............
Git ‘em!!!
Sadly, I think you’re serious.
But if they don’t circumcise, it will look weird. And all of the other girls will make fun of her.
What sort of animals could do this to a child? Or would want to?
Of course, I’m slandering the animals by comparing these scum to them!
Especially since it was being performed in an illegal clinic ...to begin with.
don’t get tooo self righteous...Western world has:
1) sex-change operation (if that ain’t genital mutilation, I give up)
That's a voluntary act.
2) murder of ex-wifes or girlfriends for not having abortions, or for disputes over who gets child custody.
That's a criminal act, punished by existing law.
3)Girls having to take birth control pills, Gardasil, guys having to wear condoms, getting your AIDS tests, young kids worrying about whether they’re still gonna be virgins by age 16, bathhouses, peep-shows...
Girls aren't forced to take birth control pills. Except in Texas, girls aren't forced to take Gardisil. (That requirement may have changed as well.) Guys aren't forced to wear condoms. Except for jail inmates, I don't know that I've ever heard of mandatory AIDS tests. Except for cases of forcible rape, any young kid is able to remain a virgin until well past 16 if they choose to do do. Bathhouses and peep shows exist but I have yet to see anyone dragged, kicking and screaming, into one.
Westerm world ain’t too hot either.
Compared to honor killings and forced female circumcision? You've got to be kidding.
That article is spot on, it’s all about power and domination and total lack of regard and respect for women.I hate this fake religion more every single day.
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