The United Nations has called for a ban on female circumcision practiced by Muslims.
This process called FGM(Female genital Mutilation), in its opinion, violates woman’s’ Rights.
‘The resolution urges the 193 U.N. member states to condemn the practice, and to launch educational campaigns to eliminate it. It urges all countries to enact and enforce legislation to prohibit FGM, to protect women and girls “from this form of violence” and to end impunity for violators. Although not legally binding, UN General Assembly resolutions carry considerable moral and political weight.’
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FGM is often undertaken to reinforce traditional beliefs about what is considered proper sexual behavior, according to the World Health Organization. Many communities believe the process, also called female circumcision, reduces a woman’s libido and therefore reduces the chances of her engaging in premarital or extramarital sex.
When a vaginal opening is closed off or narrowed through the process, the pain of opening it, and the fear that it would be found out, is considered further deterrent to “illicit” sexual intercourse.
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- Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
- The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women.
- Procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, infertility as well as complications in childbirth increased risk of newborn deaths.
- About 140 million girls and women worldwide are currently living with the consequences of FGM.
- FGM is mostly carried out on young girls sometime between infancy and age 15.
- In Africa an estimated 92 million girls 10 years old and above have undergone FGM.
- FGM is a violation of the human rights of girls and women.(WHO Report)
I think there is confusion regarding FGM.
Narrowing of the Vaginal Canal is FGM and not the circumcision of the Clitoris.
This as, suggested by the UN and WHO violates human Rights as it is dangerous to health and restricts female sexual behavior.
Circumcision of Clitoris increases sexual pleasure as it does the circumcision of the male.
What exactly are they banning?
Te UN has attended to and solved.
Genocide of Tamils in SriLanka
Put an end to Israel Palestinian Conflict
Put UK on Notice for willfully deserting Palestine in 1948 falsely promising both Palestinians the same, a separate State,thus creating a People with out State.
Punished the US for bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Yes, this ban is most urgent.next on the Agenda is
Banning the circumcision practiced by the Jews?
This is nothing but to incite the Muslims.
There are so many practices in Christianity that are outdated concepts including Papacy.
What about the pedophile Priests?
What does Islam say on FGM?
Contrary to Muslims’ denial Islam clearly advocates this.
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The following quotation is taken from Reliance of the Traveller, Revised edition, amana publications, Beltsville, 1997. The title page informs us that this book is
The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law ‘Umdat al-Salik
by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d. 769/1368) in Arabic with
Facing English Text, Commentary, and Appendices
Edited and Translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller
In this book, in the section titled “THE BODY”, we find on page 59 the following entry:
Nuh Hah Mim Keller’s Translation Arabic Original e4.3 Circumcision is obligatory (O: for both men and women. For men it consists of removing the prepuce from the penis, and for women, removing the prepuce (Ar. Bazr) of the clitoris (n: not the clitoris itself, as some mistakenly assert). (A: Hanbalis hold that circumcision of women is not obligatory but sunna, while Hanafis consider it a mere courtesy to the husband.)”
http://answering-islam.org/Sharia/fem_circumcision.html
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