Pro-circ delusions

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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)                    \-(?)--(?)--(1)
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[1] Re: Pro-circ delusions                        (?)--(?)--(?)--[1]
Date: Wed Apr 03 11:28:25 GMT-0500 GMT-0500
+     1996
Organization: Software Engineering Institute
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In article <1996Apr3.152037.25602@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk) writes:

I rather suspect that, were similar methodology used, it would be possible for a sufficiently motivated researcher to establish a reduction in UTI rates in females with the excision of the labia, for example. It is my understanding that Islamic doctors in Egypt have made such claims.

Your understanding is correct. Hamid al-Ghawabi makes that claim in his article Khitan al-banat bayn al-tib w'al-islam (Cairo, 1989). The practice is also claimed to prevent vaginal cancer (Muhammed al-Salih: Al-tifil fil-shari'ah al-islamiyyah, Cairo 1980).

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