Posted on

War on Women : ISIS orders female genital mutilation in Iraq

A family fleeing the violence in Mosul waits at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Arbil

U.N.: ISIS orders female genital mutilation in Iraq

Staff Writer, Al Arabiya News
Thursday, 24 July 2014

The al-Qaeda-Inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has ordered all girls and women between the ages of 11 and 46 in and around Iraq’s northern city of Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, the United Nations said on Thursday.

“It is a fatwa (or religious edict) of ISIS, we learnt this this morning,” said Jacqueline Badcock, the number two U.N. official in Iraq.

Read the latest on this story: Iraq NGO: ISIS likely to implement FGM fatwa

The “fatwa” would potentially affect 4 million women and girls, Badcock told reporters in Geneva by videolink from Arbil.

“This is something very new for Iraq, particularly in this area, and is of grave concern and does need to be addressed,” she said, according to Reuters.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/07/24/-ISIS-order-female-genital-mutilation-in-Iraq.html

One thought on “War on Women : ISIS orders female genital mutilation in Iraq

  1. What a bunch of primitive savages.
    One mushroom cloud, and turn the place into glass.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *