female gentile cercumcission and mutilation in egypt?
100496
It scars them for life and robs them of their ability to enjoy sex EVER. AT ALL. There are no reasons or excuses that make that okay!
1013655
The amount of disadvantage would depend on the type of circumcision you are talking about.  It is more properly called Female Genital Cutting or Female Genital Mutilation.  It is illegal in many countries.  There is no medical benefit derived from it.\n\nDifferent forms:\n\nClitorodotomy- This is a form that is analogous to male cirumscision that involves removal of the perupice and frenulum over the clitoris.  Sometimes part of the clitoris is also removed.  This is also called Sunna Circumcision.  The disadventage of this is if part of the clitories is removed, there is reduction in sensitivity of the organ.\n\nClitoridectomy type I - is defined as the partial or total removal of the clitoris (Type I).  It was sometimes practiced in English-speaking nations well after the first half of the Twentieth Century, ostensibly to stop masturbation.  Type II is the removal of the labia minora and the entire clitoris.  The pleasure sensation of the clitoris is removed with this organ gone.  Also after this sugery a woman or girl is prone to bladder and vaginal infections.\n\nInfibulation or type III - This form of female circumcision is regarded as the most severe, which is also referred to as pharaonic circumcision. This is often carried out by a gedda or matron of the village, without anesthetic, on girls between the ages of two and six. Once the painful procedure is completed the girls legs are tied together for two weeks to keep the wound undisturbed.\n\nInfibulation replaces the vulva with a wall of flesh from the pubis to the anus, except for a pencil-size opening.  You can imagine the difficulties when it come time for the girl when she is old enough to marry and when she has children.  This area has to be cut open again each time she has intercourse and each time she has a child.  This practice carries with it major medical difficulties including urinary tract and uterine infections.\n\nIt is believed all types of FGC (Female Genital Cutting) present risk in childbirth.  According to a study by the WHO (World Health Organization) all types of FGC were found to pose an increased risk of death to the baby (15% for type I, 32% for type II, and 55% for type III). Mothers with FGC type III were also found to have 30% more ceasarean sections and a 70% increase in postpartum hemhorrhage compared to women without FGC.
758473
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine\nwww.mic.ki.se/Egypt.html
826614
Bar Mitzah is the ritual of circumcision, where the foreskin is cut off the penis.  It's a practise that is in the Judaic ritual because it used to be a necessity due to urinary tract infections in those days.\n\nHave a nice day.
263018
Yes. I wanted to answer this question in my words. but there are so many more knowledgeable people than me. I looked on the Web to try to find the scripture that speaks of body mutilation, and I found the Website (listed under sources at the bottom of my comment) that goes into different types of mutilation. \n\nI think this well covers it, even though it is mainly about tattoos and piercings--mutilation is mutilation. And, if you are ridding yourself of an organ for sexual reasons, then it is against God. He created you as you for a reason, with His plans in mind.
737090
No, it's not done over here unless requested on religious or medical grounds. Jews and Muslim have it done but most babies do not
823669
Check this site:\nhttp://www.funsms.net/egypt.htm
990040
Once circumcision was reserved for Jewish males but in the US a whole lot of doctors were and still are Jewish and they got it so it was second nature; everybody was circumcised. I'm not my parents came from Eastern Europe & my dad wasn't so he didn't have me sliced!
1023668
Circumcision is the removal of the end portion of the foreskin. It is usually done to young infants. It exposes the head of the penis.\n\nIn the Bible circumcision was used as a sign for the Hebrews to show they were/are God's chosen people. It was done on the eighth day after birth because the blood coagulated fastest on this day.\n\nToday parents often have their children circumcised for cleanliness of the penis.
927819
Although I am so  ,I see no reason why a naturally occurring skin appendage should be removed. It is a phony pseudo religious act. It seems that the Jews started it and the Malsoms followed along. I would never personally have it done.
1029635
Circumcision is mutilation.  We abhor it being done to girls in Africa, but we practice ritual mutilation on our men every day.  What the hell?
109121
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_male_circumcision
1072552
shaving the pubic area,and removing armpit hair,trimming the nails..were things the prophet Muhammad said we should do\nso yes,it is part of the religion
1169792
Notice that two of the most violence-prone peoples are the Middle-Easterners - Arabs, Jews, Palestanians? They all practice circumcision, which is a totally useless and medically unnecessary act. No one has a right to cut off any piece of my body without my permission. Infants cannot give permission for a useless, unnecessary and potentially dangerous removal of their foreskins.
148886
There are many different ways of circumsicion, however in Africa, usually they remove both labias and sew the wound together leaving a small hole near the vagina. This is to assure that they remain virgins until marriage (As it would be easy to see if anyone had penetrated the wound), but they also believe that it promotes fertility in the women. \n\nUnfortunately there are many side effects, sometimes the wound gets infected and the woman dies, or it could cause infertility which may lead to her being rejected later on down the line. It's also extremely painful to have sex, nevertheless it hinders mensturation and urination, both being horribly painful. Fluids get trapped in the wound since obviously it all can't get out, and that too can cause a (perhaps deadly) infection. \n\nThere are other ways of female circumscision, many being much less painful than the ones you *sometimes* see in Africa. (Not all tribes do it, and that form is much rarer) SOME Muslims sometimes circumcise their daughters although the way I just mentioned above has been banned from many countries. Usually they are the Egyptian Muslims that practice this rather than the typical Arab Muslims, however it has become less and less as they see that it has no roots in the Qu'ran. \n\nThe other ways include removing the labias but not sewing it together, removing one labia, or the most popular worldwide: removing the clitoral hood.
960684
Not at all.  There was a recent case of this in Africa, with her sentence (being buried to the neck and stoned) being "reconsidered" because of the international reaction.  Other behaviors have been protested, too.  The South American custom of a man murdering his divorced wife if she starts to date again, and calling it a matter of "honor".  Indian women being burned in a "cooking accident" because the dowry didn't come through.  Why should Muslims be given a pass?  They just convicted a man in Georgia for cutting his daughter's clitoris off with a pair of scissors in order to be sure she remained "good".  He may protest his sentence, but she'll suffer longer than he will.  This isn't ethnocentricity.  It's an ability to empathize with a person who suffers.  Those without the ability to empathize aren't faithful to any religion; they're merely psychopaths.
710950
you're right. it's TOTALLY against the Qur'an and God's wishes to self mutilate one's body.  Shi'ite who do this are way off the mark.