Vagina Mutilations: a win for Islam

Egyptian cleric, Yusuf El-Badry, landed a victory for Islam when he recently won a court case in Egypt that reinstated female circumcision on grounds that it is in the religious doctrine of Islam.

“The decision to criminalize circumcision means criminalizing something from Islam,” El-Badry bellowed in court. “This is a disaster.”

Female circumcision comes in 3 general forms: Clitoridectomy, or removal of the clitoris; Excision or clitoridectomy plus removal of the labia minora, the inner lips of the vulva; and Infibulation or removal of everything and leaving a hole between female legs.

El-Badry got involved in a case when a 14 year old girl died during one of these traditional Islamic procedures. The mother of the dead girl paid $9 so her daughter could have her vagina mutilated.

According to an Islamic Hadith, or a holy tradition of Islam, Prophet Muhammad said to a woman being circumcised in Medina “Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband.”