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ISIL orders genital mutilation for all girls and women

26 Jul 2014 07:00

Islam Times - The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has ordered all girls and women between the ages of 11 and 46 in and around Iraq's northern city of Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, the United Nations said on Thursday.

“It is a fatwa (or religious edict) of ISIS, we learnt this this morning,” said Jacqueline Badcock, the number two U.N. official in Iraq.

The “fatwa” would potentially affect 4 million women and girls.

No one was immediately available for comment from Islamic State which has led an offensive through northern and western Iraq.

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