Imam Abdullah Abu-Bakr of the Committee of Islamic Council of Yala says, "You must peel a banana before you can eat it and for women, it will reduce their wildness, making them clean and strong."| Submit your comments on this article |
| Southeast Asia |
| Female genital mutilation in southern Thailand |
| 2015-04-02 |
| Imam Abdullah Abu-Bakr of the Committee of Islamic Council of Yala says, "You must peel a banana before you can eat it and for women, it will reduce their wildness, making them clean and strong." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #4 Offcially FGM was non-existent in Arabia. Officially because there is ayt least one haddith in which Muhammad praises a woman whose job is mutilator. But FGM is common in Yeamn and and that is official. Now I don't know how close are Arabs and Yemenites. Amercicans are very different from Mexicans and to a lesser degree from Canadians. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-04-02 10:33 |
| #3 Probably unheard of in most of the Islamic world before the wonders of Satellite Television and Wahabbist funding. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-04-02 08:10 |
| #2 Yep. Afaik FGM was unheard of in Thailand |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-04-02 07:57 |
| #1 We're told this is "cultural" and not "religious", but it seems to spread with a certain religion. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-04-02 06:13 |