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Vol.1 Issue 26, December 2020 ELITE

Extirpating a life

Marihan Ayman Mohamed Taher, 3rd level, Economics

The same in Christianity, there is no religious basis that justifies
We have become in the twenty-first century, and someone still
the conduct of female circumcision. The Church also considers
don ’t realize that God bless us with a mind that distinguished
circumcision as one of the worst types of violence against
us over all creatures in order to manage all matters, but it is
women and a type of racial discrimination against them and
really unfortunate that some cancel the thinking mechanism
undermining their dignity and humanity. From this human
from their minds and replace it with the submission of all that
aspect, we will address the psychological factor of girls who
is inherited from customs and traditions. The strange thing here
undergo circumcision. Nothing in the world can explain the
is that the Egyptian people have been known that they are not
consequences of losing a girl to her safety and confidence in her
easily affected. Throughout history, Egyptians have been
family. From time a girl was born, her mother becomes her
subjected to pressures aimed at erasing their identity and
safety, as for the father, he is the first lover, the loyal friend, the
origins, but they cling to them with all their ability. However,
faithful counselor and the protective fort to her. But these
that rule was broken when some Egyptians abandoned their
irreplaceable feelings can be broken by parents as soon as they
passions to follow a habit that from the point of view of
decide to circumcise their daughter. We see that the roles are
humanity, classified only as “extirpating a life. ” Do you think
changed instead of the parents remaining constant trust and
about that habit? Are your feelings aroused as soon as you hear
safety. They turn into monsters that attack a five to thirteen-
words suggesting that there is an assault on the most basic
year-old girl. Do customs remain sacred when We demolish
human rights? You should think what a habit that harms a
basic norms of a girl when we cause her unforgivable harm?
person to this degree; and let us imagine the suffering of the
With what right we justify this physical assault by saying that in
people who are exposed to it without the slightest right to hurt
order to preserve the chastity of the girl, and by doing this we
them. It is in the midst of the Abyssinian invasion of Egypt
are scratching her modesty, breaking her self-esteem and
during the twenty-fifth rule of the Pharaonic Dynasty. The
robbing her femininity. It does not stop at psychological harm,
transfer of the Ethiopians to Egypt was known as “female
but it is also mental harm, the day that the massacre or the crime
circumcision, ” and the Pharaohs added to it their own touch of
was completed, the parents are deceiving the girl that they are
what was known as “pharaonic circumcision, ” which is the
going somewhere and she is also surprised by the location of the
most extreme form of circumcision, because it is considered a
attack and not somewhere as she was told. From the intensity of
complete distortion of the female reproductive system. The
the psychological factor, we find that the circumcised girls have
truth is that this custom took root in the south, as it took over
severed their ties with their families because they did not forget
the African continent, and because Egypt is the heart of the
the day when they cried loudly, and their parents did not help
continent, so it was not spared the spread of this habit in its
her. The problem is embodied in thought and has nothing to do
lands on the sea and tribal sides. However, relative to its
with ignorance or the educational level of the individual.
southern roots, whenever we go to the Egyptian level, we see
Therefore, it has been proven that 80% of doctors perform
this habit become a duty, so it must be done; if not so, the
circumcision. In this regard, the Supreme Council of
neighbors and the surrounding people do not make fun of the
Universities approved in 2017 to incorporate an educational
family. Everything that is recognized does not matter to be
component against the crime of female circumcision into the
followed when it comes to harm, so how do those people think
scheduled obstetrics and gynecology curriculum. For medical
that cutting a part of the body is a permissible thing? Did they
students in Egyptian universities; given its importance in
not remember that human was created in the best possible way,
creating a medical cadre capable of confronting the crime of
and if human think to change any think of his form so it can
female genital mutilation and convincing the Egyptian family of
turn into a deformed structure. It is for this stated reason that
the seriousness of this crime on the physical and psychological
Clerics and scholars intervened to resolve this issue, because in
health of girls. In addition, whoever they are, we find that the
1998 at the Conference on Reproductive Health in Cairo,
right thought is the hope of eliminating this abuse, but also girls
scholars from 35 Muslim countries agreed that this custom is
must be made aware that the abuse of their parents is not
not binding in Islam, as the process of female circumcision was
allowed.
not mentioned at all in the Quran.
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