{"id":3654,"date":"2007-09-24T14:27:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T21:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/24\/protests-against-female-genital-cutting-on-the-rise-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T21:47:20","slug":"protests-against-female-genital-cutting-on-the-rise-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3654","title":{"rendered":"Resistance To Female Genital Cutting On The Rise In Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a good article in the NY Times<\/em><\/a> on the growing and vibrant anti-Female Genital Cutting ((AKA Female Circumcision, Female Genital Surgery, AKA Female Genital Mutilation or FGM.)) movement in Egypt in the Times. (Curtsy: Feministe<\/a> and Sly Civilian<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Previous “Alas” posts on FGC: 1<\/a> 2<\/a> 3<\/a> and 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From the Times <\/em>article:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Koran is a newcomer to tradition in this manner,\u201d she said. \u201cAs a male society, the men took parts of religion that satisfied men and inflated it. The parts of the Koran that helped women, they ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is an unusual swipe at the Islamists who have promoted the practice as in keeping with religion, especially since the government generally tries to avoid taking on conservative religious leaders. It tries to position itself as the guardian of Islamic values, aiming to enhance its own wilted legitimacy and undercut support for the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned but popular opposition movement.<\/p>\n

But the religious discourse concerning genital cutting has changed, and that is credited to Ms. Assaad\u2019s strategy of reaching up to people like Mrs. Mubarak and out to young women like Fatma Ibrahim, 24. When Ms. Ibrahim was 11 years old, she said, her parents told her she was going for a blood test. The doctor, a relative, put her to sleep and when she woke, she said she could not walk.<\/p>\n

The memory haunts her now, and though she says that her parents \u201cwill kill\u201d her if they find out, she has become a volunteer in the movement against genital cutting, hoping to spare other women what she endured.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am looking to talk to the young, the ones who will be parents in 10 years,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is my target group. I talk to the young. When I get married, inshallah, I will never, ever circumcise my daughter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a good article in the NY Times on the growing and vibrant anti-Female Genital Cutting ((AKA Female Circumcision, Female Genital Surgery, AKA Female Genital Mutilation or FGM.)) movement in Egypt in the Times. (Curtsy: Feministe and Sly Civilian). Previous … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-and-the-body"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}