Its been reported that militant
group ISIS, may have last night ordered for the compulsory Female Genital Mutilation
(FGM) for all women and girls in a region in Iraq where they have control over.
The extremist group has seized large swathes of the troubled
country's northern regions and is now said to be imposing its hardline Sharia
rules on the population.
The United Nations expressed deep concern yesterday at
reports all girls and women in and around city of Mosul are to being forced to
undergo FGM procedures.
A UN spokesman in Geneva said that they were seeking clarity
and trying to establish the facts.
Such a 'fatwa' issued by the Sunni Muslim fighters would
potentially affect 4million women and girls, according to UN resident and
humanitarian coordinator in Iraq Jacqueline Badcoc.
'We have current reports of imposition of a directive that
all female girl children and women up to the age of 49 must be circumcised.
Culled
from Daily Mail.
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