Khalid Adem weeps on the witness stand as he testifies Friday at his trial in Gwinnet County, Georgia.
Posted on 10/27/2006 1:21:48 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
LAWRENCEVILLE, Georgia (AP) -- The trial of an Atlanta-area father accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors is focusing attention on an ancient African practice that experts say is slowly becoming more common in the U.S. as immigrant communities grow.
Khalid Adem, a 30-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, is charged with aggravated battery and cruelty to children.
Human rights observers said they believe this is the first criminal case in the U.S. involving the 5,000-year-old practice.
Prosecutors say Adem used scissors to remove his daughter's clitoris in their apartment in 2001. The child's mother said she did not discover it until more than a year later.
"He said he wanted to preserve her virginity," Fortunate Adem, the girl's mother, testified this week. "He said it was the will of God. I became angry in my mind. I thought he was crazy."
The girl, now 7, also testified, clutching a teddy bear and saying that her father "cut me on my private part." Adem cried loudly as his daughter left the courtroom.
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Khalid Adem weeps on the witness stand as he testifies Friday at his trial in Gwinnet County, Georgia.
Animal.
How did the girl's mother miss it for a year? Both of then are unfit to be parents.
My husband was watching our local (Atlanta) news yesterday and I walked in when this story was on. He asked me 'How on earth do you circumsize a girl?" I told him. He almost threw and/or cried at the same time.
---ah--the "multicultural" society---
He almost threw and/or cried at the same time.
Pardon me, he almost threw up.
Me, me, me!!!!!!
I volunteer!!!
I have some nice rusty scissors that I can use for the castration of this monster!!!!
Pick me! Pick ME!!!!
How did they get him out of his loincloth and into the suit for the picture?
Someone should chop his nads off and ask him how it feels.
This case needs to be widely publicized. I don't guess Ms. Magazine has sent a reporter? Nah.
Can we enforce our own laws in our own country?
Well, there's the root of the problem right there. Perhaps it's time for immigrant communities to SHRINK.
This is a practice which is appoved in Islam, but not mandated. I notice no mention of Muslim or Islam in this article. No matter how heinous or ghastly the truth--the MSM will always go PC.
DING DING DING - GUESS HIS RELIGION!!!
Not that I would expect CNN to be forthright, but I couldn't help but notice that the fellow's name is Khalid,...this isn't a "religion of peace" thing? Is it?
Not wanting to show my ignorance, but I don't understand what female circumcision either and I have been around for over 50 years.
There's a 99% chance it is, since pretty much anyone who practices it is Muslim.
This is a practice which is appoved in Islam, but not mandated. I notice no mention of Muslim or Islam in this article. No matter how heinous or ghastly the truth--the MSM will always go PC.
Face it, they need to go back where they came from. Like all the Islamic laws, they will try to make it legal.
ORIGINS OF FEMALE CIRCUMCISION
The origins of female circumcision are obscure but the practice most likely dates back thousands of years. Herodotus reported that female circumcision took place in ancient Egypt during the fifth century b.c. and there is also evidence that early Romans and Arabs had adopted the practice (for review, see 3). At some uncertain point in history, excision practices became associated with the obsessive preoccupation with virginity and chastity that still characterizes many African and Arab cultures today; this combination resulted in the more radical practice of infibulation (3) (for description of procedures, see Box 1).
http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/mjm/v05n02/v05p104/v05p104main.htm
Immigrants MUST assimilate into our culture or we're doomed as a country.
How quickly Western society forgets...Wasn't there a case in Florida of a mother (Somali or Ethiopian, I think) who did the same thing to her daughter? She was charged and convicted and sentenced to 2 years, AFAIK. Later on, the same judge (in an obvious fit of PC) let off an Arab woman (from SA) who was charged with molestation of her son. It is, common practice for Arab mothers to "soothe" a crying male infant by fondling his genitals. This was also in Florida.
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