Where+and+Why

====**In Africa an estimated 92 million girls from 10 years of age and above have undergone FGM, according to the [|WHO.] **====





WHY?

Female circumcision turns a girl to a woman. It is a famous practice in nomad groups. When a girl is not circumcised, she is not able to marry and is going to be rejected by her people.
 * 1. A girl becomes a woman**

According to the Prophet Mohammed, there are sayings which relates to female genital circumcision. The sayings indicate the preference of sunna circumcision, minor cutting of the clitoris. A woman just said to the prophet that in Medina a woman used to perform the circumcision and he just answered “do not cut too severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband." The religious motive is not understandable because the god or prophet, who people who practice the circumcision think of, creates the human as it actually is and for this reason it is not understandable to cut the genitals.
 * 2. Religion**

Tribes in Africa there has been a long tradition of circumcision of girls. People have songs, dances and chants that teach the young girls about their duties, and the desirable characteristics of a good wife and mother.
 * 3. Tradition**

In Ethiopia people believe that is the genitals are not circumcised they will hang between the legs like men’s genitals. The tribes of the Dogons and the Bambara in Mali believe that the clitoris is dangerous for babies because the babies would touch it during their birth and the contact would cause their death.
 * 4. the psycho sexual ethic**

All motives have been part of the lives of these people for a long time and it is difficult for outsiders and the UN Organization to give women a better way of live without the physical and psychological pain of female genital mutation. The third motive shows that the believe of these tribes just drove the abnormal thoughts into the people’s mind. I think they just believe issues which people have believed in for thousands of years.