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FGM Update

By The Daily Dish
Jun 25 2007, 11:31 AM ET

The barabrism called female genital mutilation, in which the clitoris is cut or removed from young girls, is on a different scale of horror than male circumcision. Which is why it's good news that Egypt's Grand Mufti has just pronounced that Islam forbids it. Pity a young girl had to die for him to speak up.



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