09 Oct 2015 – 03:10PM | By Marco Ferrari The closure of a circumcision clinic in Hyde has sparked a backlash from the local Muslim community, claiming the closure is an ‘attack on the practice of their religious beliefs’. An online petition … Read More
5/5 (2) June 3, 2015 By Lucian Vâlsan There is a silent revolution going on in the world and only in recent years have we started to hear about it. Although there’s still a long way to go, the reality … Read More
Gambia: UN Women Partners with GAMCOTRAP in the Campaign to End FGM in the Baddibus Foroyaa Newspaper, Apr. 2, 2015 Also available on the allAfrica website GAMCOTRAP has launched a two-year project with two hundred community leaders in Lower and … Read More
Western girls holiday in Kenya to undergo FGM in secret Katy Migiro Reuters UK, Mar. 11, 2015 Also available on the Reuters website NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Somali families living in Britain and the United States are bringing their … Read More
“If they mutilate my granddaughter? I’ll kill them.” Meet the Iraqi village ending FGM Sofia Barbarani The Telegraph, Mar. 4, 2015 Available on the Telegraph website Amirah vividly recalls the day she was taken into a bathroom by the … Read More
UN, Malaysia Groups Seek to Repeal Fatwa Requiring FGM Gabrielle Paluch Voice of America News, Mar. 2, 2015 Also available on the Voice of America website BANGKOK—In 2009, Malaysia’s National Fatwa Committee, the nation’s top Islamic council, required all Muslim … Read More
Female genital mutilation persists in rural Egypt Walaa Hussein Al-Monitor, Feb. 26, 2015 Also available on the Al-Monitor website CAIRO — I vividly remember, when I was little, those collective ceremonies that our neighbors from rural areas — from Upper … Read More
Female circumcision on the rise in Malaysia The Express Tribune, Feb. 20, 2015. Also available on the Express Tribune website Syahiera Atika, a 19-year-old Malaysian girl has happily embraced western-style capitalism but in contrast strictly follows the local interpretation of … Read More
1.63/5 (8) Islam Question and Answer (publication date unknown) General Supervisor: Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid – Principles of Fiqh » Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings » Acts of Worship » Purity » Natural character and instinct of the human creation. 45528: Medical benefits of female circumcision Could you explain me … Read More
March 3, 2014 by Anna Baron. Published in Amicus (Yale’s Undergraduate Law Magazine) “Banning mila[1] was the route chosen by two of the worst enemies the Jewish people ever had, the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV and the Roman emperor Hadrian, both of whom set … Read More