Zip:
You’d think the fact that the vast majority of FGM takes place in Islamic societies would be relevant to the story… and you’d be wrong.
Via NBC News:
When Marie was two years old, a woman in her village in Africa cut off her clitoris and labia. Now 34 and living thousands of miles away in New York, she is still suffering.
“I have so many problems, with my husband, with sex, with childbirth,” she told NBC News, withholding her real name to protect her identity. “The consequences on my life are all negative, both physically and psychologically.”
The practice of Female Genital Mutilation is common across much of Africa, where it is believed to ensure sexual purity before marriage. But Marie says FGM is also “very common” in some communities in America.
“The pressure to get daughters cut is great,” she said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 150,000 to 200,000 girls in the U.S. are at risk of being forced to undergo cutting. The CDC says “at risk” because there are no actual records of the practice, only estimates – and old estimates at that. Its latest data date to 1997, the year after it was banned in the U.S.
America’s and Europe’s banning of FGM is a joke.
This is something done in private.
Often the little girls are sent to home countries (or parent’s home country) or to isolated places where no one will be able to see of hear what is going on except the perps and their victims.
The worst thing that happened to sour American liberals against fighting FGM was the scamming of Hillary Clinton by the African young woman back when Bill was president.
The girl claimed to be a ”princess” in imminent danger of FGM unless she was granted US asylum.
Turned out she was a maid or servant of some Muslim instead.
Hillary was horrified at being fooled.
She turned her back of the crime of FGM and so did all Liberal Ladies in America.
What would work to protect girls from this?
Nothing I can think of.
Children suffer because of the sins of their fathers.
And Muslim children suffer in many ways.
90% of all FGM is done to Muslim girls.
I learned about this practice 30 years ago in MS magazine of all places. There was a time when the feminists were talking about it. Generally it’s the fathers who do’nt want this done to their daughters. I knew 2 women, 1 from kenya and 1 from Ghana. The kenyan one told me her tribe did not practice it. Lucky for her, and the one from Ghana told me her Dad stopped her mom from having it done to her, however she was afraid to send her 3 year old daughter to her Grandmother for vacation because Grandma did want to have it done to the baby.92% of Egyptian women have had it done and the Ms article at the time featured some Egyptian Dr. who had had it done to her when she was about 6 years old. Megyn kelly was talking about it on her show last night and she was clear it was the Muslims
Meanwhile, universities that had scheduled to show this movie are being attacked by CAIR and demanding that the movie not be shown because CAIR claims it is “Islamaphobic.” Never mind that it was CAIR that coined that term to shut down any discussion of radical Islam. Never mind that CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood creation to use our own
cultural Marxismpolitical correctness against us. They are the same group that demanded the DoD call the Fort Hood massacre “work place violence.”The enemy is inside the gate and our government is doing nothing, nada, to protect us against radical Islam. How long before we have another Fort Hood or Boston Marathon massacre? And when we do, and we will, what will the response be from CAIR?
So, where do Islamic clitorectomies fit in the Collective’s War on Women™ meme?
@retire05: How long before we have another Fort Hood or Boston Marathon massacre?
We might have one at any time.
The news is that a recruit in the army planned to do one, but they kicked him out one week ago.
Now the manhunt is on to find him before he does it from without the army.
FBI and Kansas City PD can't find him.
@retire05:
It appears they’ve succeeded.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/03/31/islamophobia-in-action-honor-diaries-screening-shut-down-by-cair/
@Nanny G:
Just as, in the past, the Communists infiltrated our highest offices in the land, so too, are the Islamists infiltrating our government and our military. It is part of their plan. Once placed, the groups like CAIR then demand the elimination of any reference to radical Islam in military training, government policies and law enforcement training. It is no different than if we had eliminated any reference to “Nazis” during WWII.
CAIR leadership is a frequent visitor to the White House as are the leaders of ISNA. We have photos of Obama shaking the hand of the main lobbyist for the Muslim Brotherhood of UK. We need Churchill. Instead we got Chamberlain.
@Kraken: Well, without insulting (at the risk of being blown up) the fundamentalist Muslim group, they can claim to have absolutely stopped the practice from being committed by Christian or Jewish fundamentalists. Hindus and Buddhists have been shut down as well. Hooray for the Great and Powerful!!
A woman should have the final say in what happens to her body… unless those standing up for the women could get blown up. Then, it’s “look over there! A Republican war on women! Get em!!”.
@retire05:
Ever wonder what would happen if we worked to get some Americans in our highest offices and in our military? Think there would be a lot of resistance?
I was in the bush near a village called Boulon in Burkina Faso when our Land Rover passed a gathering of chanting women gathered in a field. I asked my prospector what was going on and he said “female circumcision” and told the driver not to stop.
This was not a Muslim village. When I asked the guys about it, I was told that rural African women nurse their children until 3 years of age and that lactation would cease if they got pregnant again. Hence, genital mutilation kills the sex drive in the woman.
That’s what I was told.
Ever wonder how much FGM bill clinton did and continues to do? The fool in the wipe house is gay, so he could care less what happens to a female.
I challenge anyone to TRY to convince me that the news media hasn’t been infiltrated by the muslim brotherhood. Even congress has been infiltrated by them, and even the presidency. If they haven’t been infiltrated, then why are they ALWAYS defending the muslim religion, and not any other religions?
@Smorgasbord:
Ah so, and that’s the biggest problem we have right now.
@Redteam: #13
I don’t remember saying it is the biggest problem, but a terrorist organization infiltrating our government, schools, and news media is of major concern to me. As I have mentioned before, if we are infiltrated, what would the infiltrators do to bring down the USA? Compare that to what is going on RIGHT NOW.
The muslim brotherhood is even in the works to form a new party to run for congress. They openly say they will destroy us from the inside.
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/04/02/muslim-terrorist-groups-organize-political-party-to-overtake-america/
I DON”T SEE ANY OTHER THAN MUSLIM DOING IT OR WING OF IT LIKE SECTE
WHO ARE AND HAVE BEEN RULED FOR CENTURY BY THE MUSLIM MENTALITY.
if it’s done in AMERICA LOOK UP FOR THE MUSLIM AND ANYONE CONNECTED WITH THEM,
NO REAL TRUE AMERICAN WOULD EVEN THINK OF IT,
UNLESS THEY SOLD TO MUSLIM LAWS,
@Smorgasbord:
Nah, I was saying it’s the biggest prob. Yes, it’s a huge prob and no one (in gov) seems to give a damn.
As the soviets did, but Muslims have got a head start, they have a man in the White House.
@Redteam: #16
Also many in obama’s administration, and in both houses of congress, or the muslim religion would have been declared a terrorist organization a long time ago. I haven’t read the Koran, but I don’t remember anybody who has telling about any part that says a muslim should learn to get along with non-muslims.