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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The big difference is that all those lousy things you mention about the Western world are done via free will. The 12 year old had no say in the operation.
If this woman doctor had been circumcised as a child herself, there may be an element of 'getting even' involved. That, of course, doesn't rule out the insane and morally bankrupt culture as the primary cause of this.
Make that, "these people are medieval animals." The middle ages represented the height of Christendom and civilization.
I was remembering the recent article by the no-longer-muslim somali woman who had this done to her by her grandmother in somalia.......”circumcision” it is not, but using the word diminishes the reality of it.....
Perhaps “Dark Ages” would be more appropriate
Yup.
Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine.
“told the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper that she had paid $9 dollars to a female physician to perform the procedure.”
If she had a higher co-pay, she could have had a better doctor.
I am sure when Hillary-Care is pushed through, this will be a covered procedure. You do not want back alley female genital mutilation!
That “doctor” should be stoned. What a grotesque inhuman disgusting barbaric horrific heinous evil thing to do.
“think a woman capable of having an orgams”
Ya sure, women have orgasms. Right!
4) Male circumcision
LOL...
If certain “religions” continue to thrive in America, this could be SOP here in 15-20 years. Hello... ACLU... are you listening?
Pre-historic is more accurate.
Hey, her “mother” paid nine whole dollars for this procedure.
“Nothin’s too good for my baby... so nothin is what she’ll get”
Sick, good-for-nothing low-lifes.
$9 USD is worth a lot more money over there than it is here. That $3000 bribe could have been a 2 or 3 year salary for an average Saudi.
Poor child.
Now if only the world would be silent for one moment so we can listen for the feminist outcry.
BUT, last I checked, your examples are voluntary, not some one forcing you to be mutilated.
See your #1, please provide a listing of all (or any) persons dragged kicking and screaming (or pre-anesthesized) into a gender-reassignment operating room.
Waiting......... (crickets)
They are sick sadists. Disgusting beyond belief.
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