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FGM in Kenia 2018
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Constitutional Petition 8 of 2017
http://kenyalaw.org/caselaw/cases/view/154401
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Machakos petition no. 8 of 2017 Dr. Tatu Kamau vs. The Hon. Attorney General and Anti-Female Genital Mutilation Board
The petition was filed on the 24th of July, 2017. The Petitioner’s main contention is that female circumcision ought not to be prohibited since it forms part of culture. Also, she contends that the ANTI-FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION BOARD is not legally constituted
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Dr Tatu Kamau, in the case before Justice David Kemei
Legalise Female Genital Mutilation, says doctor in court | Daily Nation (Kenya) 18.01.2018
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The Machakos High Court has referred the pro-FGM case by Dr Tatu Kamau to Chief Justice David Maraga
By ANDREW MBUVA | Form 3-judge bench to hear pro-FGM case, Machakos court asks Maraga | The Star (Kenya) 14.06.2018
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Email vom 06.11.2018 an info@tonymwebia.co.ke
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Dear Tony Mwebia,
today you say via twitter: „FGM is not supported in any major religious texts“
– FGM clearly is an Islamic obligation for all Muslims of Shafii madhhab – and FGM is an Islamic obligation for Shia Dawoodi Bohra.
You continue saying, today: „and moreover many religious leaders believe that this tradition should end“
– Kairo-based al-Azhar has NEVER EVER forbidden FGM Type Ia or FGM Type IV
In short / Abstract
1. FGM is very, very Islamic – and
2. al-Azhar does NOT condemn it.
Yours
Edward von Roy, social worker
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#MenENDFGM @TonyMwebia
Fact Check via @WHO. #FGM is not supported in any major religious texts and moreover many religious leaders believe that this tradition should end. #FGMNotMyReligion #EndFGM #MenENDFGM
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#MenENDFGM
https://tonymwebia.co.ke/menendfgm/
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“Cease fire has been Declared but the ‘War’ against FGM/C is far from over”
Posted on 09.05.2018 by Tony Mwebia
According to Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) 2014 religion has been alluded to as one of the main reasons for FGM/C among the Muslim communities. Majority of Somali women (82 per cent) and men (83 per cent) believe FGM/C is a religious requirement. […]
https://tonymwebia.co.ke/religion-and-female-genital-mutilation/
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World Health Organization (WHO) on Twitter: „is not supported in any major religious texts and moreover many religious leaders believe that this tradition should end.“
06.02.2018 – Embed Tweet. #FGM is not supported in any major religious texts and moreover many religious leaders believe that this tradition should end.
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Muslim leaders delink Islam from female genital mutilation
Deputy Chief Kadhi Rashid Ali Omar said there is a difference between culture and religion saying that pastoralist communities that practice FGM do it in line with their traditions and is not supported by Islamic law. [ That is wrong – in fact, there is no Islam without female genital mutilation / FGM ]
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Islamic scholars strongly oppose Female circumcision
Islamic scholars in the country have come out strongly to oppose the notion that the religion supports Female circumcision. Led by the deputy Chief Kadhi Rashid Ali Omar, the scholars said that people mostly mistake the cultural practices of the pastoralist communities who are mostly Muslim and assume the Islamic religion also supports the same.
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Eines Tages begegnete Mohammed der zum Islam konvertierten muqaṭṭiʿatu l-buẓūr (amputatrice di clitoridi, coupeuse de clitoris, cutter of clitorises), der Frauenbeschneiderin Umm ʿAṭiyya. Die Gottgehorsame befragte den Propheten nach der religiösen Rechtmäßigkeit ihrer täglichen Arbeit und Allahs Sprecher stellte fest:
أشمِّي ولا تنهَكي
ašimmī wa-lā tanhakī
[Cut] slightly and do not overdo it
[Schneide] leicht und übertreibe nicht
Oder Mohammed verkündete den Willen des Himmels so:
اختفضن ولا تنهكن
iḫtafiḍna wa-lā tanhikna
Cut [slightly] without exaggeration
Schneide [leicht] und ohne Übertreibung
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—–Original-Nachricht—–
Betreff: Re: STOP FGM in Kenya – STOP FGM world-wide
Datum: 06.11.2018 15:47:09
von: Tony Mwebia
an: „Edward von Roy“
How do you do. Where are you based my Brother.
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Mail von heute 21:47 Uhr von Edward von Roy an Tony Mwebia in Kenia
Hello my brother, thank you very much for your reply,
I am a social worker – as you are.
I am an intactivist (activist against FGM or MGM) based in Germany, Europe.
Zero tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) = zero tolerance even to the less invasive forms of FGM.
Even the ‘mild Sunna’ type of FGM is not mild: it is damaging, painful and a traumatic experience. Perhaps you may have heard about the criminal case of Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, an US-based (female) doctor and Islamic circumciser (FGM) of several seven years old girls.
According to religion (Islam) khitan al-inath (Islamic FGM) is wajib (farD), is a religious obligation – a boy or a girl HAS to be cut (mutilated).
Shafii madhhab of Sunni Islam does NOT difference between a boy or a girl – her or she HAS to be cut. That is fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) – so, if we really want to stop FGM in East Afrika – Shafii madhhab is usual – we have to stop khitan al-inath (sunat perempuan).
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Let us go away fom the – worth protecting and defending – UDHR (universal declaration of human rights, 10 december 1948) for a moment – let us read the hadith:
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Hadith. The Prophet said to Umm Atiyya (or: to Umm Habiba)
أشمِّي ولا تنهَكي
ašimmī wa-lā tanhakī
[Cut] slightly and do not overdo it
Or Muhammad said:
اختفضن ولا تنهكن
iḫtafiḍna wa-lā tanhikna
Cut [slightly] without exaggeration
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Back to the one and indivisable mankind and civilisation (UDHR – 10.12.1948).
Let us STOP any type of FGM – type I, II, III, IV. Any. No cut, no incision, no drop of blood, no pain.
For a girl or a boy. As women and men shall be equal – and have the same full civil rights.
Any ritual circumcision or other ritual injury of the genital of a girl or a boy below the age of eighteen years should be banned on a global level.
Good luck finishing the FGM in Kenya wishes you,
Edward von Roy
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