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UPDATE: Jihad Watch reader Anonymous has kindly alerted me to this MEMRI blog post, "Egyptian People's Council Nixes Sections Of New Children's Law," May 16. It says, "However, the People's Council did decide to ratify the section banning female circumcision."
This flatly contradicts the Ynet story below. So what did the People's Council actually do? If anyone knows, please email me at director[at]jihadwatch.org.
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The lukewarm condemnation of this practice by a group of Islamic scholars in Cairo in 2006 got enormous international publicity. Will this? What do you think?
"Egyptian Parliament Okays Female Genital Mutilation," from Israel National News, May 16 (thanks to Pamela):
(IsraelNN.com) Conservatives in the Egyptian parliament have made female genital mutilation (circumcision) legal again in Egypt. The conservatives succeeded in striking several laws that had been passed by the parliament's religious Shura Council in the past. The laws canceled also include a law limiting marriage age to 18 and up, a law permitting a mother to register a child on her name and a law allowing neighbors of a family that beats its children to report the beatings to the police....
Posted by Robert at May 16, 2008 11:16 AM
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Let me see if I get this right.
They had to pass a law that allows people to report neighbors for beating their children... and now they rescind that law?
Giving their imprimatur to FGM is obviously much more horrid but it seems to me the withdrawal of "permission" to report what may be a nascent honor killing, or one in progress, shows AGAIN what barbarians even the most 'moderate' Muslims can be.
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at May 16, 2008 11:37 AM
my be they should pass a law making castration the law
Posted by: crusader at May 16, 2008 12:06 PM
Nothing to do with mohammedanism (or theocracy) it's just a cultural thing. African don'cha know ...
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Sickening lying bastards.
... the perpetrators and their apologists.
Posted by: joeblough at May 16, 2008 12:27 PM
Crusader, are you sure the castration law would work?
Nobody over there with balls to begin with, seems to me.
Posted by: undaunted at May 16, 2008 12:34 PM
The civilized world blinked, and that was enough time for the Egyptians to change their minds.
Posted by: Abscedere at May 16, 2008 12:50 PM
Mohammad cut out a far more important organ with the knife of the Koran 1400 years ago: the brain.
All follows from this lack.
Posted by: profitsbeard at May 17, 2008 10:57 PM
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