Taher Fakhruddin, the Syedna of the breakaway Bohra faction, on Saturday called khatna or female genital mutilation “an un-Islamic and horrific practice”. According to the Times of India, the claimant ...

Mumbai: The arrest of Detroit-based emergency room physician Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and two others in connection with female genital mutilation (FGM) of two minor girls in the United States has once ...

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Mumbai: In the face of a virtual firestorm on the issue of female circumcision or khatna within the Dawoodi Bohra community in the past few months, around 21 Bohra men, spanning Mumbai, Pune, Udaipur, ...

Should a woman be circumcised to moderate her sexual urges? Some members of the Dawoodi Bohra sect, part of the Shia community – spread primarily across Gujarat and Maharashtra – believe so, even ...

Mumbai: At a time when two doctors are in the dock in Detroit for genital mutilation of minor girls, a Mumbai-based gynaecologist and a homeopath from the Dawoodi Bohra community have come out in ...

A petition seeking to ban female genital mutilation (FGM), known as “khafz” or “khatna”, has put a long-standing divide in the Bohri Muslim community in the spotlight with the Mumbai-based Dawoodi ...

"I am a father and I am against khatna,” reads a sign Yusuf holds over his face in a picture attached to a blog post. Since last year, brave Dawoodi Bohras have been breaking the silence surrounding ...

Five women from different parts of the world but bound by a common cause, to eliminate khatna or female genital cutting or mutilation, known as FGC or FGM met at SoBo’s Press Club yesterday. The women ...

It is one of our secret shames. But when the world observes International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation today, Masooma Ranalvi and her group of 50 Bohri women from across India ...