Naomi Izevbekhai, aged seven, and her sister Jemima, aged six, are at threat of being deported from Ireland to Nigeria, where their mother Pamela says that her busband's family is likely to force them to submit to genital mutilation.
Pamela Izevbekhai has said she left Nigeria in January 2005 due to her husband's family's practice of genital mutilation.
The High Court in Dublin is due to give a decision on her appeal on Tuesday 18 November.
Her first daughter Elizabeth died at 17 months from blood loss, which the attending doctor described as being possibly the result of female circumcision performed on the baby.
Ms Izevbekhai's in-laws are a very powerful family within Nigeria and insist on genital mutilation a "rite of passage".
Her lawyer referred to a report by Amnesty International stating there were inadequate protections against female genital mutilation in Nigeria. But official bodies in Ireland have repeatedly said that state protections in Nigeria are adequate.
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Now this is just another precept of islamic practices that flies in the face of normal practices for a freedom loving nation and people. If this woman hasn't already left islam; she needs to do so and never look back. In order for her to be able to join the society she claims, begs to be a part of this tie to the old place, the old beliefs and the old barbaric ways, must be the first step to her being accepted in the country she choosed to hide in. islam is barbaric, islam is the biggest fraud ever commited against humanity since Hitler talked the germans into thinking they were the chosen, special, master race. It is no different and in fact it is 1000 times more dangerous to freedom loving human beings the earth over since it is not only one country and it's population that has accepted the fraud and teachingsof mohammed, bu it is numerous countries and populations that are taught to hate, lie, steal, deceipt, maim, murder and mohammed's favorite, 'the child molestation of underage females all in the promotion of islam as being supreme thoughout and over the entire world. islam is hate, islam is barbaric and islam is a lie, false ideology of hate, miaming and murder of innocents worldwide. genital mutilation is only the tip of the iceberg of deceipt and obomanation to God and the rest of humanity as a whole.