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 1. What role does female circumcision play in Somalian culture? What insight does Dirie provide into the trauma she experienced both at the time and for years after? 

 2. Dirie writes, "Neither the Bible nor the Koran talks about female circumcision anywhere." Why does she mention this and how does it negate arguments for female circumcision?

Answer 1

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In somalian culture the female genital mutation is a traditional social practice involving the removal or injury of the external female genetalia for non therapeutic reasons.

The practice is often performed on girls between the ages of 0-9 years,which making one of the horrible child torturing beacuse it doenn't having any health related benefits.The majority of Somalis belives that FC is mandated by Islam

Even so,the Koran does not prescribe FC,nor is it carried out in Saudi Arabia,which is the epicenter of Islam.As a result many Somalis are hesitant to abandon any practice which uses the name''sunna''.The awareness campaigners in Somalia rarely encourage the abandontment af all forms of FC,

The religious aspect of FC in Smalia is very complex due to the facts that cultural beliefs and religion in this community intermingle, and locals take number of cultural issues as religious docrine.They believes that cut increases the ability to get marriage and also It discourage the female person from the extra marital intercourse.

Waris Diris was a Somalian fashion model author and womens right activists known her efforts to estimate female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision.Dirie who had undergone FGM at about age five become personal and cultural barriers to speak openly about it during a 1996 magazine interview.

She explained her exprience into the trauma both at the time and for years after.

• Made her to sit on a rock by and circled arms around her body by placing a piece of root of an old tree between the teeth to bite.
• They done the procedure by using a broken razor blade by cutting off her blindfold.and a suturing has done with thorns fro Acacia tree.
• She couldn't move and her legs begin to shake uncontrolabily.
• She experienced with a colplete numbness of the legs and untolerable pain and she become unconscious.
• After the procedure she was restrained and she left alone and recupetare for next two weeks as a part of traditiona and culture.
• Her sister has scooped out her little hole in the sand.It trauma has become infected and she got high fever too and also fadded in and out of consciouness.
• She ends by telling that am lucky that many of the girls are dying with infection and tetanus, but i am lucky that i am survived.

2.

Senior Muslim religious authorities agrees that female genital mutilation is neither required nor prohibited by islam.The Quran does not mention FGM or female circumcision.FGM is praised in a few hadith(saying attributed to Muhhamed)as noble but not required,though the authority of this habith has been questioned.In 2004, after CNN broadcast images of a girl in Cario undergoing FGM, the Grand Mufti of Egypt Muhhamed Sayyid Tantawi declared that hadiths on FGM were unreliable.