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In reply to the discussion: Man punches nurse for removing wife's burqa during c-section [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)I have personally assited in hundreds and hundred of C-sections in the strictest Muslim county in the Middle East - Saudi Arabia. I have l have also worked in one of the most remote, most ethnocentric regions of the strictest country in the Middle East - the Asir Mountain region near the Yemen boarder. There were almost always male health care workers present. This was a non-issue. The patients wore nothing more than the normal hospital gown than anyone would wear in America or Europe. No doubt thousands and thousands of Muslim women have had C-sections in France with male health care workers in attendance. I have never heard of anyone ever being assaulted out of the hundreds of thousands of Muslims who have had C-sections whether in the West or in the Islamic world. It is possible that in some backward tribal region somewhere that this thinking could be a local tribal belief. I have no idea. But I have certainly never - ever heard of it until now. This is not a Muslim belief or practice in any way, shape or form.