# \[Doctor charged with FGM- edited title ITD\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412 "2017-04-13T21:42:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/81 "2017-04-21T05:17:58Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What does it mean, “X2!” [Check it out.](http://auto.ndtv.com/news/production-bmw-x2-will-retain-concepts-styling-1633600) ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/82 "2017-04-21T14:39:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What does it mean, “X2!” I believe it means **48Willys** agrees with me, since **Spice** and her hubby are currently on [an adoption track](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=807152). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/83 "2017-04-21T15:35:18Z")
Thanks, ivylass. ---
**Author:** ![48Willys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/db5fbb/32.png) [@48Willys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/48Willys)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/84 "2017-04-21T18:53:07Z")
Again, X2 on what Ivylass said! X2 = Times two. X3 = Times three. Etc. Etc. So if someone else decided to agree with Ivylass on this, they would say X3. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/85 "2017-04-21T18:58:37Z")
Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/86 "2017-04-21T20:43:37Z")
[Two more arrests.](http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/04/21/second-doctor-arrested-genital-mutilation/100741450/) ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/87 "2017-04-21T21:10:32Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > This is pretty mean. Yeah, they did use chastity belts during the crusades, but you’re now projecting the female genital mutilation practice that is prsently carried out by Muslims and tribal people in Africa to Christians, despite any evidence that they would do such a thing. There is evidence that they would allow their children to die from cervical cancer, so there is that. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/88 "2017-04-21T22:59:08Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > This is pretty mean. Yeah, they did use chastity belts during the crusades, but you’re now projecting the female genital mutilation practice that is prsently carried out by Muslims and tribal people in Africa to Christians, despite any evidence that they would do such a thing. To be fair Christians _do_ tend to practice FGM right alongside animists and Muslims where it occurs. So in Egypt one estimate is that is praticed by 92% of Muslims and 72% of Coptic Christians. In Ethiopia the prevalence among Muslims is 65%, among neighboring Orthodox Christians 45% and at one time it was practiced by the Beta Israel Jews of Ethiopia as well. The Nawoodi Bohras are a little unusual in that they are a rather insular sect that practice the tradition in an area where it is not common. Indeed one wonders if the Bohras ( a subset of the Isma’ili Shi’a sect ) in fact picked up the practice in Egypt - they claim religious descent from the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt. However that doesn’t much jibe with the much larger and more cosmopolitan Isam’ili sect of the Nizaris who don’t practive it at all. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/89 "2017-04-21T23:26:10Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > at one time it was practiced by the Beta Israel Jews of Ethiopia as well. Did it stop when [they](https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ethiopian-jewish-women) were brought to Israel? One legend has it that they are descendants of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/90 "2017-04-22T00:08:48Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Did it stop when [they](https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ethiopian-jewish-women) were brought to Israel? Pretty much, [yes](http://doctorsonly.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Successful-Cultural-Change.pdf). And apparently almost immediately, which is a cheery thought. Would that the same had happened with those Bohra families had as well. But again, insular sects can be a different kettle of fish and old habits die hard. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/91 "2017-04-23T21:07:45Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > This is pretty mean. Yeah, they did use chastity belts during the crusades, but you’re now projecting the female genital mutilation practice that is prsently carried out by Muslims and tribal people in Africa to Christians, despite any evidence that they would do such a thing. When the HPV vaccines were first popularized in my state, many fundamentalists Christians were against giving the vaccines to the daughters because they felt it would be condoning premarital sex. Deliberately exposing a young girl to cervical cancer in order to maintain chastity comes very close to being willing to mutilate her genitals in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/92 "2017-04-26T01:03:34Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I’ve been thinking about a short story by Robin Hobb published in Asimov’s a few years back. I see that it is no longer on the official site, but [is captured in the Wayback Machine](https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20101012021520/http://www.asimovs.com/Nebulas03/cut.shtml). That is good. It’s worth reading. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/93 "2017-04-26T02:12:58Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Not](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infibulation) [kidding](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3449674/I-thought-virgin-meant-look-Muslim-FGM-victim-vagina-stitched-blade-woman-cuts-30-girls-day.html). From one of your articles \*\*\*‘It’s not good if you are not circumcised as a woman, because then you want more sex than the man wants. My sister, for example is not circumcised, and she wants sex all the time.’ \*\*\* Call me crazy, but i fail to see the problem there. Hold on honey. let me tie up this cow and i’ll be right in. I fail to grasp the though process going on here. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/94 "2017-04-26T02:27:38Z")
The fear is that the woman is going to want so much sex she’ll cheat on her [del]owner[/del] husband, which might thereby wind up raising some other man’s children. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412.md?page=4)