Fears Indonesian Female Circumcision Guidelines Could Increase Practice

Berita Satu Media ^ | September 02, 2011

[george76]

West Java. Guidelines on how to perform female genital mutilation/cutting issued by the Indonesian Ministry of Health could cause an increase in the practice, medical experts and rights groups fear.

“This will give doctors a new motivation to circumcise [girls] because now they can say the Ministry of Health approves of this, and the Indonesian Council of Ulema [MUI] approves of it,” said Jurnalis Uddin, a doctor and lecturer at Yarsi University in Jakarta.

Though FGM/C was banned in 2006, two of Indonesia’s Muslim organizations, including the largest and mostly moderate, Nahdlatul Ulama, ultimately condone the practice advising “not to cut too much,” and, as a result, many continue to perform the procedure.

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there has been increasing support for the practice from Muslim groups since the downfall of authoritarian leader Suharto in 1998, resulting in greater religious and political freedom, known as “Reformasi”.

[calex59]

Oh, yeah, let’s keep this barbaric muslim practice going. Women don’t need to feel pleasure while having sex. It is for their own good/SAR.

[bayouranger]

Female genital mutilation is described as "religious freedom"? Koranimals.

[ZOOKER]

*Institutionalized sexual slavery
*Serial rape followed by stoning for adultery
*Rampant lust and lack of control of arab men, forcing elaborate rules to chaperone women
*Rampant lust and lack of control of arab men, forcing elaborate rules to cover every square inch of the female body
*Rampant lust and lack of control of arab men, forcing elaborate rules to imprison women in their own homes

I think genital mutilation might be an answer to these problems, but they should clip the MALES instead.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, that’s just the worst case scenario.

Y’know, kinda like Islam itself.

Thanks george76.