loads of somalis say its important bikoos it prevets girls from unlawful sex and pregnancies, plus leaves the families reputation intact. Futhermore, it saves oneself from Zina, which is seen as highly bad in the sight of Allah.
but is it a good thing?
btw. did any 1 watch that episode on nip/tuk about this, aisha taylor (black girl from friends, joeys girlfriend) played a somali woman who had female genital mutilation.
funny thing is she looked somali 2
