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Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision [a]) is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva. The prevalence of FGM varies worldwide, but is majorly present in some countries of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and within their diasporas.
Female genital mutilation is carried out in thirty countries in Africa and Asia with more than 200 million girls being affected, and some women (as of 2018). [140] Nearly all of the procedures are carried out on young girls.
Conjoined twins, popularly referred to as Siamese twins, [1] [2] are twins joined in utero. [a] It is a very rare phenomenon, estimated to occur in anywhere between one in 49,000 births to one in 189,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence in Southwest Asia and Africa. [5]
List of Muslim women heads of state and government; List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government; Muslim women political leaders; Council of Women World Leaders; Women in government; Lists of women politicians; Society-related timelines
A female urination device can assist women and girls in urinating while standing or into a bottle. [ 21 ] In microgravity , excrement tends to float freely, so astronauts use a specially designed space toilet , which uses suction to collect and recycle urine; the space toilet also has a receptacle for defecation.
In Arabic, female circumcision is referred to as khafḍ (Arabic: خفض) or khifaḍ (Arabic: خِفَض). [2] [4] [5] [28] In many Muslim communities, khafḍ is a rite of passage and refers to the excision of female genital organs. [29] The Quran does not mention male or female circumcision. [30] Female circumcision was practiced in pre ...
However, the buying of Chinese girls in Singapore was forbidden for Muslims by a Batavia (Jakarta) based Arab Muslim Mufti, Usman bin Yahya in a fatwa because he ruled that in Islam it was illegal to buy free non-Muslims or marry non-Muslim slave girls during peace time from slave dealers and non-Muslims could only be enslaved and purchased ...
Also in 2013, the first class of female halachic advisers in the US graduated from the North American branch of Nishmat's yoetzet halacha program. SAR High School began allowing girls to wrap tefillin during Shacharit-morning prayer in an all-female prayer group; the first Modern Orthodox high school in the U.S. to do so. [87] [88]