Posted on 01/13/2015 5:10:50 AM PST by george76
Hundreds of Tanzanian schoolgirls returned home Monday after spending three months hiding in safe houses to escape genital mutilation, state television said.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) can range from female circumcision to the removal of the entire female genitalia.
Some 800 school girls fled to shelters run by charities and church organisations, which offer protection during the months FGM is traditionally carried out, from October to December.
Some of the shelters are given police protection to ensure the girls remain safe.
Minister of Labour and Employment Gaudensia Kabaka called on traditional leaders to use their influence to stop “this retrograde practice.”
Campaigners call the dangerous practice mutilation rather than the term female circumcision, so as to make clear the dangers it involves and the harm it causes.
Apart from the intense pain itself, immediate dangers include bleeding and infection.
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More than 125 million women have been mutilated in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which condemns the practice as a “violation of the human rights” of women.
(Excerpt) Read more at tribune.com.pk ...
Just a mainstream practice of the religion of peace.
Actually, in East Africa this is the traditional practice of Animists, not just Muslims.
Many instances occur in tribes with no Islamic influence at all.
Andrea Mitchell to begin the media whitewash of this and defend the honor of islam in 3....2...1....
sickos
Correct but the practice is ‘cultured’ by mussies all over N Africa and the ME. Horrible practice...
They have a season for this?
Wouldn’t these girls be at as much risk of this again when next season rolls around?
The cradle of civilization.
The question that occurs to me is .... WHY ?
Is it to keep the females from 'wandering' ?
Is it to keep the females from 'wandering' ?
That is the reason most often mentioned to me. "If they don't enjoy it, they won't look elsewhere."
I'm not sure that it was ever very effective for that purpose. Even if it were, it is still a ghastly practice!
A few countries in West Africa have temporarily suspended the practice of FGM in an effort to curb the Ebola outbreaks.
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