Female Genital Mutilation Outlawed By Islam Scholars

A conference of high ranking Muslim scholars has decided that female genital mutilation is a punishable aggression and a crime against humanity. This decision outlaws the practice in the Islamic faith.

This decision is a great step for human rights and hopefully the ban will spread to the areas of Africa where this practice is most widely performed. And if you think that it only happens in the third world, remember that just a month ago an Ethiopian immigrant was sentenced to 10 years for circumcising his daughter in the US.