OLD habits, however brutal, die hard. It’s six years since Egypt banned female genital mutilation but still it continues. And FGM is unlikely to stop as long as religious leaders condone it and parents believe their daughters will otherwise be disadvantaged.
Mohamed Bedaiwy of the in Ohio interviewed 3730 Egyptian girls aged 10 to 14. Eighty-five per cent of the girls had been subjected to FGM since it was outlawed, almost two-thirds of them by non-medical personnel ().
“Female genital cutting is a deep-rooted practice in Egyptian culture, and it will take more than a law…
