The Higher Committee of Fatwa in Kurdish Iraq recently issued a fatwa on FGM. This fatwa openly contradicts the fatwa from Al-Azhar university issued in 2006, banning FGM from a religious point of view.
In contrary the Kurdish clerics delegate the decision – to mutilate or not – back to the families. They additionally underline that FGM is considered Sunnah in most Islamic Law Schools.
A lot of people and activists in Iraqi-Kurdistan are frustrated with this text and start a process of discussing how to proceed with the campaign against FGM. [Read more...]








