Walk Like An Egyptian

…might just mean a normal gait after all.

Egypt Officials Ban Female Circumcision
The death of a 12-year-old Egyptian girl at the hands of a doctor performing female circumcision has sparked a public outcry and prompted health and religious authorities to ban the practice.
The girl, Badour Shaker, died this month while undergoing the procedure in an illegal clinic in the southern town of Maghagh. Her mother, Zeniab Abdel Ghani, told the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper that she paid about $9 to a female physician to perform the procedure.

Poor puddin’. As a mother who’d been through the same horror, how could you do that to your little girl?

3 Responses to “Walk Like An Egyptian”

1. Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life says:

   June 30, 2007 at 12:15 am

   Just now, huh? Well better late than, say, SEVERAL HUNDRED FRICKIN’ YEARS AGO, I guess.

2. barista grazioso says:

   June 30, 2007 at 7:28 pm

   As a mother and decent human being, I don’t get it. I don’t want to hear their lame excuses about their religion. Their religion be damned……and it is. If ANYONE got near my girls in that way besides an OB/GYN that I trust? You’d see me on the 5 o’clock news.

3. Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life says:

   June 30, 2007 at 8:39 pm

   Amen, Barista.