Female circumcision 'not Islamic'
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Egypt's top Muslim clerics say Islam does not regard the practice of female genital mutilation as mandatory.
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An Islamic appeal court in Nigeria today overturned a sentence of death by stoning handed down to a 29-year-old pregnant woman for having sex out of wedlock.
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For 3-year-old Amira, a law  banning female genital mutilation in Eritrea came too late.
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Iranians flouting Islamic street dress codes may risk being hauled in by police for questioning by "psychologists", but the frequent sight of bandaged faces from cosmetic surgery raises not so much as an official eyebrow.
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The mutilated body of a woman of about sixty years, which was discovered in Iraq in the middle of November, is not that of kidnapped British aid worker Margaret Hassan, the UK Foreign Affairs Ministry announced.
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VIENNA -- Young girls born in Europe to immigrant families from Africa are subjected to ritual genital mutilation, and authorities are doing little to discourage it, a leading activist for women's rights warned yesterday.
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Officials are considering an unprecedented proposal to ban women from performing the five Muslim prayers in the immediate vicinity of Islam's most sacred shrine in Mecca. Some say women are already being kept away.
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Sex education is not enough to cut teen pregnancies and abortions in the UK, Medical Research Council experts say.
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A dentist refused to treat a female patient unless she wore an Islamic headscarf, a disciplinary panel hears.
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Hazel Blears "does not recognise" a bishop's claim that extremists make some areas "no go" for non-Muslims.
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A Â£20,000 reward is offered as police start a major crackdown on female genital mutilation.
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South Africa's health minister took another controversial foray into the AIDS debate Thursday by questioning international medical studies that say circumcision helps reduce HIV infections in men.
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KAMPUNG PULAU MELAKA, Malaysia  - Malaysia's Islamist opposition party called on non-Muslims on Thursday to back its election campaign to apply strict sharia law, including amputations and stonings, for the country's Muslims.
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Mayada Chazi does not think of herself as particularly religious. She's more interested in talking about boys, reading English novels, or dreaming of visiting New York. But she has taken to wearing the head scarf of a devout Muslim woman.
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Circumcision may reduce men's chances of contracting HIV by up to 60 percent &#151; but early results suggest the procedure may put women at increased risk of infection, according to preliminary data presented Tuesday.
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Millions of new HIV infections in Africa could be avoided if more men were circumcised, an International AIDS Society conference was told on Tuesday.