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Like Freedom and Justice Party MP Azza al-Garf, who publicly supports FGM. Egypt’s New Women Foundation said they are suing Islamist Parliament member Azza al-Garf over her pro-female genital mutilation (FGM) statements. The women’s rights foundation sent a letter to the speaker of parliament Saad al-Katatny, informing him of legally going after Garf and asking for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Female genital mutilation’
Those “moderate” Islamists running Egypt
May 16th, 2012 
Ophelia Benson 
Posted in Notes and Comment Blog 
Tags: Female genital mutilation, Religious child abuse 
6 Comments »The Muslim Brotherhood calls it beautification
March 31st, 2012 Ophelia Benson Via Deeyah, via Mona Eltahawy: Azza El Garf of the Freedom and Justice Party – the Muslim Brotherhood party – disapproves of the ban on FGM. She condemns the notorious “virginity tests” that military officers and doctors are accused of perpetrating on a group of female protesters in March 2011. But she disagrees with Egypt’s 2008 ban [...]
It’s not a priority
March 25th, 2012 Ophelia Benson I saw a powerful BBC report on FGM in Egypt the other day. The most chilling part is at the very end (11:00) when Sue Lloyd Roberts asks a Salafist honcho if he’s on board with the campaign to end FGM and he said it’s not a priority. She pressed him by saying, “So you wouldn’t [...]
Men couldn’t hear the girl’s screams
October 16th, 2011 Ophelia Benson One small bit of good news, for a change. The movement to end genital cutting is spreading in Senegal at a quickening pace through the very ties of family and ethnicity that used to entrench it. And a practice once seen as an immutable part of a girl’s life in many ethnic groups and African [...]
My faith dispels any doubts
September 1st, 2011 Ophelia Benson And by the way three cheers for female genital mutilation. …some communities see the practice as an integral part of their culture. “I have two daughters and five nieces, all circumcised by doctors. I do not consider it a human rights violation because, according to our religious teachings, it has been divinely ordained. My faith [...]
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