Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Egypt mufti says female circumcision forbidden

Egypt's state-appointed Grand Mufti said on Sunday that female genital cutting was forbidden by Islam after an 11-year-old girl died while undergoing the procedure at a private medical clinic in southern Egypt. A 2005 UNICEF report on the practice showed that 97 percent of Egyptian women between ages 15 and 49 have already been circumcised.

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