File under “fucking disgusting:”

Female genital mutilation rife in Egypt despite ban

Astonishingly, in 21st Century Egypt, the latest figures suggest that over 90% of the women have been subject to female genital mutilation (FGM). The figure comes from a Unicef approved survey carried out in 2008, the year that the practice was banned.
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The practice is not restricted to Muslims, as has often been claimed, but also carried out by Christians, who make up 10% of Egypt’s population.

The practice predates the arrival of either religion in Egypt - there is evidence that it was practised back in Pharaonic times.

Why do people do this stupid, brutal thing? Hatred and fear of female sexuality:

The belief there is that it is the female who is sexually rampant and that her sexual desire must be arrested at a young age, before she can disgrace the family.

“It is important that she loses that part of her body that awakes sexual desire. If not, she may play with herself or ask a boy to touch this part for her, not specifically a stranger, but one of her cousins for instance, and she might enjoy it,” Olla told me. “When she feels the pain of it she will be more careful about this part.”

[everything else redacted in the interests of protecting my LGF account]