பெண்குறியை அறுப்பதை எகிப்து அரசாங்கம் தடைசெய்திருக்கிறது

பெண்குறியை அறுப்பதை எகிப்து அரசாங்கம் தடைசெய்திருக்கிறது. சென்ற வாரம் ஒரு 12 வயது சிறுமியின் பெண்குறியை அறுத்ததில் அந்த பெண் இறந்துவிட்டார். இது எகிப்து மற்றும் உலகெங்கும் பெரும் எதிர்ப்பை உருவாக்கியது.

Egypt officially bans female circumcision

Egypt on Thursday finally banned all female circumcision, the widely-practiced removal of the clitoris which just days ago cost the life of a 12-year-old girl.

Genital cutting of girls, often referred to as female genital mutilation or circumcision, is banned in Egypt although the practice remains widespread as a rite of passage for girls and is often viewed as a way to protect their chastity.

Officially the practice, which affects both Muslim and Christian women in Egypt and goes back to the time of the pharoahs, was banned in 1997 but doctors were allowed to operate ‘in exceptional cases’.

On Thursday, Health Minister Hatem Al Gabali decided to ban every doctor and member of the medical profession, in public or private establishments, from carrying out a clitoridectomy, a ministry press official said.

Any circumcision ‘will be viewed as a violation of the law and all contraventions will be punished,’ said the official, adding that it was a ‘permanent ban’.

A survey in 2000 said the practice was carried out on 97 percent of the country’s women.

In the latest fatality, 12-year-old Bedur Ahmed Shaker was taken by her mother to a private clinic in Minya, a town on the Nile south of Cairo, for the operation.

She died before she could be transferred to hospital.

Her mother accused the woman doctor of negligence, charging that her daughter’s death was linked to the anaesthetic and not the removal of the clitoris, for which she had paid 50 pounds (nearly nine dollars). Police have arrested both women.

Egypt's state-appointed Grand Mufti, in the strongest statement yet on the issue by the government's official arbiter of Islamic law, said on Sunday Islam forbade the "harmful tradition of circumcision" of girls.

The Grand Sheikh of Cairo's prestigious al-Azhar mosque, Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, has also described the practice as un-Islamic, but some other clerics have supported it.

Both Tantawi and Coptic Pope Shenouda, the leader of Egypt's minority Christian community, have said that neither the Koran nor the Bible demand or mention female circumcision, which is usually performed on pre-pubescent girls.


பெண்குறியை அறுப்பது இஸ்லாமிய முறைதான். அதனை நபிகள் நாயகமே பரிந்துரை செய்திருக்கிறார் என்று பல இமாம்கள் வன்மையாக கூறுகிறார்கள்.

Imam Fatty rebuts FGM claim
Written by Sanna Jawara
Jun 06, 2007 at 08:27 AM

Alhaji Abdoulie Fatty, the Imam of State House Mosque has rebuted claims published on 1st June edition of the Daily observer, entitled “Female Genital Cutting Unislamic” as utter rubbish.
In an interview with the Daily Observer, Imam Fatty said “as far as Islam is concerned “we do observe circumcision not mutilation”.
He then noted that the tradition has been in existence hundreds of years ago, well before the advent of the modern civilisation.

According to him, “in the Muslim ummah nobody can tell us what is good or not good for our tradition. Before anyone tells us about our tradition, you must convince us that you have a degree or degrees in Islamic studies”
He did not hesitate to describe the publication as a big insult to the Muslim ummah and then urged the perpetrators to desist from such in the interest of religious tolerance and world peace.

According to Imam Fatty, a person who has never experienced Muslim circumcision cannot say anything genuine about it. “If the individual has undergone through the process, and as a result, contracted HIV/AIDS, and died at delivery process or the child died, this can then serve as an evidence of the dangers associated with the practice,” he added.

Imam Fatty further stated that as far as Islam is concerned, Prophet Muhammad (PBU), and his disciples, Islamic Schools of thoughts and Haddish, have all spoken well of the circumcision. He then quoted verse 36, which states that ‘Those who disbelieve and spend their wealth to hinder ‘men’ from the part of Allah, so will they continue to spend it. But in the end it will become an anguish for them. They will be overcome and those who disbelieve will be gathered unto hell”.

The Imam made several quotations from Dr Jack Faal, a renown Gynaecologist, who conducted extensive research on female circumcision, saying “despite all that has been said about it, the surgery in Female Circumcision is simple. What happens is a cutting of the skin, a piece of skin, no bone is involved in it. It amazed people who say you bleed to death in circumcision”.

The State House Imam urged religious leaders to desist from being used by other people for their selfish interest.
He clearly stated that, “there is nothing horrible and sympathetic than those who drills their nose, lips, breast tips, eyes brows, biblical cords, etc, and put in irons there, all in the name so-called fashion” .