HRW presses Iraqi Kurds to ban female genital mutilation

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HRW presses Iraqi Kurds to ban female circumcision
By Jim Muir
BBC News, Baghdad

Human Rights Watch has called on authorities in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan to ban the practice of female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation (FGM).

A report issued by the group on Wednesday said the practice was widespread in Iraqi Kurdistan, and was having a harmful effect on the physical and emotional health of many women...

Sexual urges stifled

It has no particular origins in Islam, although some clerics in Kurdistan have welcomed it because they believe it stifles sexual urges in young girls and women.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10327619.stm

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1. And after she succeeds at that

She can convince other barbarians to leave their little boys alone as well.

[WinkyDink]

3. There's always one who must derail this topic.

[WinkyDink]

2. It is the other way around: FGM, also disgustingly known as the euphemistic "circumcision"---though

there is no "circumference" to be "circumcized."

The equivalent would be a penectomy.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. that's true. the clitoris is completely removed in these procedures