in march 2009, rüdiger nehberg and tarafa baghajati met sheikh prof.dr yusuf al-qaradawi in qatar, one of the most best known islamic contemporary authority scholar. they obtained a fatwa issued by the recognized legal scholars, stating the genital mutilation of girls is referred to and forbidden as "devil's work" because it is directed against the ethics of islam. speaking at the hamburg museum of ethnology, 6 february 2011 baghajati ventured to predict to celebrate the end of this practice as early as 2020.