Posted on 10/18/2001 9:48:56 PM PDT by VinnyTex
Well, at least you know now that it wasn't your fault that you left Paula Abdul somewhat "wanting".
Walt
The "Hee Haw - Next Generation" dinner show starring Junior Samples Jr. is quite delightful however.
How many Moslems do you know?
Western feminists make it their business to fight against men, not other women. It is a tenet of modern feminist dogma that men are naturally despicable, and women paragons of virtue and the embodiment of all that is good in the world. Scratching the surface of infibulation reveals that grandmothers and their "sewing circles" are the ones responsible for continuing this barbarity. Public recognition of this fact by the feminists would be inconsistent with and in fact contrary to some of their most fundamental dogma. Therefore, the facts are conveniently ignored while the feminist leaders pay mere lip-service to the need for greater understanding and education for the perpetrators, who, being female, must by definition be victims of some historical male bias inherent in their culture.
Furthermore, the urge to continue this barbarism is almost intractable. In some colonial and formerly colonial cultures, India for example, the practice of clitorodectomy and infibulation were outlawed and made punishable by death once the colonial governments found out what was going on. Despite the law and executions, the practice went on and continues in secret, though has gradually diminished as western influences have brought freedom, education and cultural change.
Why would a grandmother and the other old crones of the neighbourhood want to cut a jagged bloody hole where her grandaughters' external genitalia used to be? I'd say it's because having the same done to them has driven them insane. I'd say because theirs were cut off when they were children, and the thinking is what was good enough for them is now good enough for their daughters and granddaughters. Not just their genitals got mutilated, but their sanity as well.
Name the many countries. My wife is a Moslem from the Middle East. She will be very interested in learning this.
Could this also explain the inexplicable?
i.e.: mothers pushing their young sons to grow up to be martyrs for the One True Religion
and its Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him?
You sum up my thoughts perfectly.
I used to believe that the only stupid question was the one left unasked. You've changed my mind.
Um.... So what is the purpose of tonsils?
Right.
There have been no comprehensive global surveys of the prevalence of female genital mutilation. Most of the girls and women who have undergone mutilation live in 28 African countries (Figure 1).It is practised by many ethnic groups, from the east to the west coast of Africa, in the southern parts of the Arabian peninsula and along the Persian Gulf, and increasingly amongst some immigrant populations in Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States of America. It has also been reported to be practised by Daudi Bohra Muslims who live in India and amongst Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia. Infibulation is widespread in Somalia, northern Sudan and Djibouti and has been reported in Ethiopia, Eritrea, northern Kenya, some parts of Mali and northern Nigeria. Introcision has only been documented in some Aboriginal communities of Australia, but is not considered to be a current practice amongst this group.
On the basis of government reports, anecdotal evidence and limited surveys with non-representative samples, the prevalence of mutilation in countries where it is practised is estimated to range from 5% to 98% (Hosken, 1995, Toubia, 1995). Sudan is the only country to have carried out nationwide surveys (El Dareer, 1980, the Sudan Fertility Survey 1979; Sudan Demographic and Health Survey, 1989/1990). They were based on a national sample which excluded the three southern provinces, where the practice is unknown (except by adoption through marriage with members of northern groups where mutilation is practised), and indicated an initial prevalence of 89% which subsequently declined by 8%. A study by the Nigerian Association of Nurses and Nurse-midwives conducted in 1985B1986 using a sample of 400 women and men in each state showed that 13 out of the 21 states had populations practising some form of female genital mutilation, prevalence ranging from 35% to 90%. However, the data could not be extrapolated to give a national picture. Similar surveys exist for Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya and Senegal.
In 1989-1990, a series of questions on female genital mutilation were incorporated in the Demographic Health Survey (DHS I) in Sudan. The Central African Republic and the Ivory Coast have also incorporated a few questions on the practice in their national Demographic and Health Survey (1994 and 1994-1995 respectively). A full module on female genital mutilation containing 20 questions (DHS III) was field tested in Mali and in Eritrea in 1995, and Egypt integrated 34 questions on female genital mutilation in its national Demographic and Health Survey in the same year. It is hoped that these attempts will generate more reliable incidence and prevalence data in future years.
Too bad because your son is gonna be mighty pissed off at you later in life when he does get circumcised. At that point in his life it will be painful. You should have done it when he felt almost nothing and definitely remembers none of what little pain there is. I had a friend of mine who got circumcised for health reasons as an adult and he was angry at his folks for not having him circumcised as a baby.
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