An Egyptian Teenager Died During An Illegal Female Genital Mutilation Surgery—And She Isn't Alone - SELF

H/T:: Breaking Their Will: Religious Child Abuse and Neglect




On May 31, a 17-year-old Egyptian girl, Mayar Mohamed Mousa, died after undergoing an illegal surgery. She and her twin sister underwent a prohibited procedure known as female genital mutilation (FGM). Her sister survived the surgery, but Mayar, who officials believe may have had blood clotting issues, did not. Though the death of any teenager is tragic, Mousa’s passing has gained attention for another reason: Female genital mutilation is harmful and illegal, but in many countries, people keep doing it.

An Egyptian Teenager Died During An Illegal Female Genital Mutilation Surgery—And She Isn't Alone - SELF

Egypt: ISIS beheads Egyptian in western desert - General news - ANSAMed.it

Eight jihadists with ISIS have beheaded an Egyptian in the Egyptian western desert and crucified him to a tree after accusing him of cooperating with police. According to local sources, the beheading yesterday occurred in the same area where tourists were killed in an anti-terror raid by Egyptian police.

Witnesses added that local residents asked for the police to intervene to find the killers who fled aboard a jeep, a similar model to the one used by tourists killed in the same area.

Egypt: ISIS beheads Egyptian in western desert - General news - ANSAMed.it

At Weekly Exorcisms, Egypt’s Muslims and Christians Unite Against the Demons | TIME.com

I'm not quite sure what to make of this article. It is your typical debil being blamed for all the bad stuff. People reacting in the stereotypical way, but the interesting aspect of the story is this example of interfaith cooperation in the exorcism service.

The demon that had possessed the elderly Muslim woman was so strong that even an Imam couldn’t get rid of it. So her family opted for a priest. “My mother is possessed by a jinn,” the woman’s daughter said, by way of explaining why she and her Muslim family had decided to attend a recent Thursday night mass last month at Cairo’s St. Sama’an Cathedral. Her mother, who was slumped over a nearby bench, gave no indication of hearing anything. In a few hours she would be yipping and howling along with dozens of other women similarly possessed, but for the moment she just stared into the middle distance and muttered softly to herself.

Tensions between Muslims and Christians have been high in Egypt, ever since a military coup against the country’s first democratically elected Islamist President on 3 July unleashed a spasm of violence that saw churches burned, priests murdered and Christians threatened in hate speeches broadcast across the country. But there is at least one sphere of Egyptian contemporary life where interfaith cooperation perseveres, and that is at weekly exorcisms performed by one of the country’s most celebrated priests, Father Sama’an Ibrahim. He is one of the few priests in Egypt who can preform exorcisms — not even the Coptic Pope can — and his reputation for expelling demons of all kinds extends well beyond his Christian flock. Muslim Imams can do exorcisms as well, explains the woman, who declined to give her name, but her mother’s case required some extra muscle. “We went to a mosque first for healing, but the demons who harm her are more afraid of the Christian priest.”

At Weekly Exorcisms, Egypt’s Muslims and Christians Unite Against the Demons | TIME.com