Female Circumcision,what's your take on it?

I've heard and seen some parents circumcised their female daughters alongside their males counterparts and I've been wondering why it should be so?

I know of one of our neighbours on same street in those days who had all their daughters mutilated in the name of circumcision and I've always used to 

wondered how those girls now ladies will be feeling  with their  sexual organs (clitoris) being mutilated whenever i remembered them.

Female Genital Circumcision or Mutilation according to World Health Organisation(WHO) is defined as "all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the female genitalia ,or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons". Did you see that:INJURY TO THE GENITAL PART. I was awed when it was estimated that by WHO that 140 million women and girls around the world had experienced it including 101 million in Africa as it is being practiced mainly in 28 African countries. Waaaooooh. what do you have to say about this and I know that Christians practice the male  circumcision  in  accordance with Biblical injunctions. And my questions  are thus: Is circumcision also applicable to females? Is it adviseable? and What are its health effects on them? 

We need to deliberate on the answers because of a 13-year -old girl that died  at a private clinic in Egypt while undergoing a circumcision operation: www.informationng.com. And this has once again highlighted that female genital mutilation continues to endanger the lives of our females.

We need to actively campaign against this inhuman act. Share your views !

To be continued.