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Londoners Sign Petition for Female Genital Mutilation
Enza Ferreri Blog ^
| 29 October 2013
| Enza Ferreri
Posted on 10/29/2013 8:33:18 AM PDT by Enza Ferreri
Shocking but revealing.
Leyla Hussein, a Somali woman living in London who was subjected to female genital mutilation when she was seven in Somalia, has tried a macabre experiment to test how far the political correctness of the public in the British capital would go.
She asked shoppers to sign a petition supporting FGM, telling them she wanted to protect her “culture, traditions and rights”.
Ms Hussein astonishingly found that only one person out of 20 refused to sign her petition.
She said to the London Evening Standard:
“I kept using the word ‘it’s just mutilation’. They were like ‘yes, you are right’. How can anyone think that’s okay?” ...[P]ublic health minister Jane Ellison warned that vulnerable girls were being failed because people do not want to be seen as “culturally insensitive”.
This reminds me a bit of that notorious psychology experiment in which subjects were asked to administer electric shocks to other persons by someone whom they believed to be a scientist. Under test was the willingness of ordinary people, not particularly sadistic or cruel, to go along with the infliction of even severe pain on innocent human beings if the command was imparted by a figure in authority in a white coat if they thought that this could benefit science. The pain was imaginary, no electric shocks were really given, but the subjects did not know that. Mostly, they obeyed the order to administer progressively stronger electric shocks, and continued even when the presumed victims, whom they could not directly see, were screaming.
Two are the great gods of our world, to whom everything must be sacrificed, as in the ancient pagan rites of human and animal sacrifices: science and political correctness.
Photo by Jonathon Narvey (Creative Commons CC BY 2.0).
TOPICS: Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: crime; fgm; genitalmutilation; london; politicalcorrectness; uk
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To: Enza Ferreri
little sheep....couldnt be more lost!
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:35:20 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( Visit http://icantenroll.com/)
To: Enza Ferreri
No democracy can function with a citizenry so ignorant. The end state will be tyrannical feudalism.
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:38:05 AM PDT
by
Paine in the Neck
(Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
To: Enza Ferreri
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:39:00 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
( "I was all for Obamacare, until I found out I was paying for it." - California Girl)
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:40:06 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
( "I was all for Obamacare, until I found out I was paying for it." - California Girl)
To: Enza Ferreri
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:40:30 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
( "I was all for Obamacare, until I found out I was paying for it." - California Girl)
To: Paine in the Neck
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:40:55 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
( "I was all for Obamacare, until I found out I was paying for it." - California Girl)
To: Enza Ferreri
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:41:21 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
( "I was all for Obamacare, until I found out I was paying for it." - California Girl)
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:42:02 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
( "I was all for Obamacare, until I found out I was paying for it." - California Girl)
To: Paine in the Neck
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:44:01 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
( "I was all for Obamacare, until I found out I was paying for it." - California Girl)
To: Uncle Miltie
This is sickening. These “people” are not civilized.
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:46:11 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Enza Ferreri
Just when I didn’t think I could despise muslims even more...
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:46:39 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
To: Enza Ferreri
Modern international competition:
Our population is more ignorant than yours!
No ours!
No ours!
No ours!
No ours!
No ours!
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:46:45 AM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Enza Ferreri
Centuries of inbreeding by the Brits and there you have it.
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:47:45 AM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Joe McCarthy was right.)
To: Enza Ferreri
Just when I didn’t think I could despise muslims even more...
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:51:56 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
To: Enza Ferreri
And the MOTHERS hold their daughters down!
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:56:45 AM PDT
by
informavoracious
(Root for Obamacare and healthcare.gov failure!)
To: informavoracious
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:57:32 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: ScottinVA
Just when I didn’t think I could despise muslims even more...I know it is terribly non PC, but, I agree.
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posted on
10/29/2013 8:59:10 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
To: trisham
Those are only the PG-17 pictures. The (R) and (X) ones are more horrifying.
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posted on
10/29/2013 9:00:45 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
( "I was all for Obamacare, until I found out I was paying for it." - California Girl)
To: Uncle Miltie
I don’t doubt it. It’s horrifying.
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posted on
10/29/2013 9:04:51 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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