Doctor faces trial over fatal female genital mutilation

Over 96% of the girls in Egypt have been clitoridectomized. And these news reports never mention female genital mutilation’s justification in Islamic law, always painting it as a cultural practice.
“Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) (by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr ‘clitoris’ [this is called khufaadh ‘female circumcision’]).” — ‘Umdat al-Salik e4.3, translated by Mark Durie, The Third Choice, p. 64


