Grass-roots effort in Egypt fights 'cutting' girls

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Maha Mohammed right and her daughter Rehab left listen to workers from a local rights group not pictured who explain the dangers of female circumcision during a visit to Mohammeds home in the Egyptian village of Sultan Zawyit on Dec. 5 2007. Female c ...
Maha Mohammed, right, and her daughter Rehab, left, listen to workers from a local rights group, not pictured, who explain the dangers of female circumcision during a visit to Mohammed's home in the Egyptian village of Sultan Zawyit on Dec. 5, 2007. Female circumcision is a long held tradition in Egypt, but Mohammed is starting to doubt whether she should circumcise her daughters. (AP Photo/Anna Johnson)

(AP) -- In this small Nile River farming village, Maha Mohammed has started to doubt whether she should circumcise her two daughters. A year ago, she had few qualms about female genital mutilation, the practice of cutting a girl's clitoris and sometimes other genitalia. She herself was cut two decades ago, and she fears her daughters will not find husbands otherwise.


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