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Doctors shocked: 16-year old Bedouin girl circumcised
Zvi Aloush
Published: 04.06.08, 09:54
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1. Jail the parents for the next 20 years
gabriela ben ari ,   jerusalem   (06.04.08)
2. Oy va voy!!!!
Talula ,   Israel   (06.04.08)
This poor girl. What is WRONG with these people!!! They have ruined her for the rest of her life now. Even if she finds a husband and settles down she'll never have a normal sex life. It's primitive and utterly cruel.
3. So sad for the girl:-( Gosh............
(06.04.08)
4. makes me shiver...
jerusalem   (06.04.08)
he should be jailed as an example to other sick male tradition holding idiots like him.
5. Far more common than you can imagine
Negev resident   (06.04.08)
The Beduin community keeps this practise under wraps but it is still widespread. Girls who don't undergo the 'procedue', which by the way, is always carried out by other women, are considered impure and the men in the family call the girls 'piglets' and don't allow them to serve the men food and drink until they have become 'pure' after being circumcised. This isn't an Islamic practise but it is practised in alot of Muslim countries, mainly in Africa. It is too bad that this, like marriage between first cousins (resulting in awlful genetic abnormalities) and honor killings haven't been stamped out in their communities.
6. I was circum at 8 days-I could not walk for a year afterward
Alan ,   SA   (06.04.08)
7. Muslim Practise - Female circumcision
Michael ,   Australia   (06.04.08)
Female circumcision is a Muslim Practice widely performed in many Muslim countries, there are many documentary films that detail the practice on film.
8. welcome
falafel stand ,   owner   (06.04.08)
to islamic reality.
9. It is NOT A CIRCUMCISION! CLITORIDECTOMY IS BURCHERY!
Sergio ,   israel   (06.04.08)
CUTTING OFF A WOMAN'S CLITORIS, AND SOWING THE LIPS OF HER VAGINA TOGETHER, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CIRCUMCISION!!! IT IS A BARBARIC DISABLING OF A MINOR!!!
10. DO NOT BE SO STUPID AS TO EQUATE FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
MOSHE ,   US   (06.04.08)
WITH MALE CIRCUMCISION. MALE CIRCUMCISION PROTECTS THE MALE :1 ) PHIMOSIS ( TIGHTENING OF THE FORESKIN WHICH CANNOT BE DRAWN BACK ) 2 ) BALANITIS ( INFLAMMATION ) 3 ) CANCER ( NO CASES REPORTED WHEREAS AS SIGNIFICANT OCCURRENCE EXISTS FOR THE UNCIRCUMSISED ) 4 ) MAKING A LOW INCIDENCE OF CERVICAL CANCER IN JEWISH WOMEN ACCORDING TO " THE JEWISH CONNECTION " BY M. HIRSH GOLDBERG ( A BANTAM BOOK, STEIN & DAY PUBLISHERS, DECEMBER 1977, PAGE 185 ) AND MALE CIRCUMCISION IS ORDERED BY H-SHEM. DO NOT RAISE MUTILATION TO THE SAME STANDARD AS CIRCUMCISION. MOSHE
11. female genital mutilation
Jennie ,   Israel   (06.04.08)
Is more widespread than one would think. The NY Times published an article on it recently, I suggest reading it
12. Throw the perpatrators in jail!
Wise Saba ,   Western Negev   (06.04.08)
13. expert mutilation to a 16 years girl
berthe   (06.04.08)
Welcome to the Muslim world of Allah, the Koran, and of course to the "warm embrace" given to 20 million muslims by EUROPE and AMERICA. In a world which speak of the desire to be multi-cultural, it must take in consideration (very carefully, as not to offend them) certain cultural differences and defenses within the civilized criminal law IE: genital mutilation, troath slashing, live stoning to death, acid disfiguration, glorifying the butchering of children with TNT, TV live beheading, and other religious "jewels" TNTC.----Indeed a remarkable ethnic descent. WELCOME to the new 21 st century
14. Originally, in the Jewish religion,maleAND female circumcism
Rivkah   (06.04.08)
were normal and a sign of the covenant with Abraham. Not only male babies were circumcised. The problem with Muslim female circumcism is that it is barbaric in that the procedure cutting off the female glans, the clitoris, when only the hood around the clitoris (not labia majora or labia minora), the little flesh around the clitoris like the flesh around the head of the glans penis should be cut off. There is a fold of skin around the clitoris as there is around the head of the penis. THAT is what should be removed as a sign of the covenant of the Lord with Abraham which was with males AND females. Cutting even the small flap of skin should be done by medical professionals, but they shy away from that. They will circumcise even adult males, but not females who are infants, children or adults. The Prophet Jeremiah said to walk in the OLD PATHS wherein is the good way. Written or oral tradition should be aware of the female circumcism that was not barbaric at all. It is merely a sign one is under the Abrahamic covenant. Maybe some woman hating Rabbis or Imans changed the procedure to be barbaric for the Muslims and nonexistent for the Jews. Jewish women who want an outward sign of the Abrahamic covenant should insist on that minor surgery. The heart can be the pump in the chest or the head of the penis or the clitoris. The heart is desperately wicked the Bible says. That cannot be the chest pump, so it must be the sexual part. The fleshy part should be cut away on males AND females as a reminder to stay close to the Lord.
15. Lock Up Her Parents
D.Torres ,   NYC, USA   (06.04.08)
Stiff prison sentences for her parents and the individual that carried out this barbaric act, should be mandatory. Remove the females from these homes.
16. Female Circumcision Rivkah - have you personally experienced
Michal ,   Tel Aviv   (06.04.08)
this outward sign?
17. What a sign of disrespect and loathing for women in general!
Nannette ,   London   (06.04.08)
18. 6 Alan: Babies cannot walk. If you walked at the age of one
Rivkah   (06.05.08)
year and not before that, you were normal. Walking at nine months would be abnormal.
20. 16 Michal If you give me an email address to write to I can
(06.05.08)
answer since YNET has not printed the last four replies to your question. I did try, but could not find a physician who would perform the simple surgery in the late 1980's.
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