USA: Two more doctors arrested for performing FGM

Last week Dr. Jumana Nagarwala was arrested for performing FGM on at least two girls at the Henry Ford Hospital in Michigan.

Dr. Nagarwala is accused to have been performing FGM on girls for the last ten years!

Now Michigan doctor Fakhruddin Attar (53) and his wife Farida Attar (50) are charged with conspiracy to perform the banned surgery at their  own medical clinic in a Detroit suburb!

The two girls who have underwent the procedure could identify Dr. Nagarwala and Mrs. Attar.

The couple is alleged to have allowed Ms. Nagarwala access to the clinic, where she worked with Mrs Attar to perform the operation on girls between the ages of six to eight. 

Dr. Nagarwala is still pleading not guilty, saying the procedure did not include any cutting and that it is part of her religious beliefs.

There is no religion that justifies FGM! Cutting girls in the name of religion is a poor excuse for controlling a woman's sexuality!
Those cases show that FGM is an issue within all our communities and we have to prevent it!

These doctors did not only break their oath to save people's live but hurt our most vulnerable members, our childern!

They are posing a serious threat to our community and need to be punished with the maximum penalty. 

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