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Breast ironing: grim secret of Africa's women
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 7/6/06 | Tansa Musa/Reuters

Posted on 07/06/2006 12:06:59 PM PDT by wagglebee

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To: ma ja99
The same might work there if they ever bother to hold men accountable for their behavior.

That's exactly right.

21 posted on 07/06/2006 12:20:32 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("5 Minute Penalty for #40, Ann Theresa Calvello!" - RIP 1929-2006)
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To: LN2Campy

LOL! Or *butt watchers*, either!


22 posted on 07/06/2006 12:20:48 PM PDT by butternut_squash_bisque (The recipe's at my FR HomePage. Try it!)
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To: MineralMan

This story is beyond horrid. I knew about clitoral mutilations, but not this....what sort of backwards freaks even think to do that?


23 posted on 07/06/2006 12:21:55 PM PDT by Feiny (Now go bang your heads on your desks until something useful comes out!)
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To: feinswinesuksass

"This story is beyond horrid. I knew about clitoral mutilations, but not this....what sort of backwards freaks even think to do that?"




I don't know. Here's something from the article:

"The practice is most common in the Christian and animist south of the country, rather than in the Muslim North and Far North provinces, where only 10 per cent of women are affected."


24 posted on 07/06/2006 12:27:13 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: feinswinesuksass

Q: How awful! How do they ever feed their babies?



A: Feeding the babies just leads to dead/starving 2 year olds.. when these people learn to feed themselves I'll dance a jig..


25 posted on 07/06/2006 12:31:18 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: PeterPrinciple
Note the subtle statmemnts. Happens in Christian and animist part but not in the muslim part. Anyone have thoughts............

Christian chriches do not have the threat of the sword behind them to enforce Christian morality.

26 posted on 07/06/2006 12:40:24 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: LN2Campy

"Why would I be a 'leg man'? I HAVE legs."
~Jerry Seinfeld


27 posted on 07/06/2006 12:42:14 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Rugged individualists of the world, unite!)
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To: ma ja99
Women here are treated as human beings.

Indeed. The Western concept of the worth of the individual is based upon the Judaic tradition as transmitted through Christianity. Unfortunately, Western culture has greatly rejected its tradition of self-respect (personal modesty), and has sexualized its children.

28 posted on 07/06/2006 12:44:29 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

chriches = churches


29 posted on 07/06/2006 12:44:58 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: MineralMan
our habit of flaunting our collective daughters' sexual characteristics at a young age is a bad thing

AMEN! It calls to mind how many mommies take their little girls to Glamor Shots, paint them up, friz their hair, have them pout suggestively into the camera, and shoot pictures of them.

It disgusts me to see a child painted up like a hooker.

30 posted on 07/06/2006 12:46:35 PM PDT by Humidston (Congress is like the Mafia - NO PAY, NO PLAY.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Anyone have thoughts.................

Sure, you see, the Northern Muslims only mutilate female genitals...none of this dizgusting 'breast ironing' business. (/src)

~GCR~

31 posted on 07/06/2006 12:50:06 PM PDT by GoldCountryRedneck ("The Clintons... are the hemorrhoids on the body politic." <- FReeper firehat)
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To: Jeff Chandler
chriches = churches

And in some respects...churches = crutches.
32 posted on 07/06/2006 12:54:19 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.)
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To: Humidston

What bothers me if little 4 and 5 year old girls wearing belly shirts and little shorts or pants with words written across their bum. Why?


33 posted on 07/06/2006 12:55:15 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.)
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To: Lucky9teen
And in some respects...churches = crutches.

I gladly use that crutch. All the time.

34 posted on 07/06/2006 12:55:15 PM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: Humidston

What bothers me is little 4 and 5 year old girls wearing belly shirts and little shorts or pants with words written across their bum. Why?


35 posted on 07/06/2006 12:55:21 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.)
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To: Lucky9teen
And in some respects...churches = crutches.

To some.

36 posted on 07/06/2006 12:56:55 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: wagglebee
Dear Lord. *shakes head*

Where are our feminist? Resting and feeling smug in their glass towers? Where's Laura Bush? She spoke out for Afghani women ruled by the taliban.

37 posted on 07/06/2006 12:57:53 PM PDT by processing please hold (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: Lucky9teen
And in some respects...churches = crutches.

Which is appropriate, since man is irrevocably broken by sin. Though Christ is the great physician, he has left the community of believers to minister to one another until his return.

38 posted on 07/06/2006 1:00:20 PM PDT by MrEdd (Bad spellers of the world - UNTIE!,)
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To: Lucky9teen
What bothers me is little 4 and 5 year old girls wearing belly shirts and little shorts or pants with words written across their bum. Why?

People don't understand the responsibilities of parenthood. They think their children are extensions of themselves and they are guided by popular culture instead of traditional morality (as taught by the Church). They don't allow their children to be children by protecting them from the sexualization rampant in secular culture.

39 posted on 07/06/2006 1:00:44 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: Lucky9teen; Humidston

Because their parents are a) lazy, b) trashy, or c) their daughter's "best friend."


40 posted on 07/06/2006 1:02:26 PM PDT by Xenalyte (I want you to remember this face. This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.)
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