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Minnesota’s Unenforced Law: Female Genital Mutilation Persists in the Shadows of Its Largest Somali Community
Based Underground ^ | Feb. 23, 2026 | Samara Sterling

Posted on 02/23/2026 8:51:22 PM PST by ViLaLuz

Young girls in Minnesota are suffering irreversible harm in silence, even though state law has called the act a felony for more than thirty years. Female genital mutilation—cutting or removing parts of a girl’s external genitalia for cultural reasons—continues inside tight-knit Somali immigrant families, shielded by shame, family pressure, and official reluctance to look too closely. Despite a documented survivor population in the state and a national estimate exceeding half a million affected women and girls, Minnesota prosecutors have secured zero convictions. ...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: childabuse; failure2assimilate; fgm; minnesota; satanic; somalia; women

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Zahra Abdalla still carries the memory of the day it happened to her. Between the ages of six and seven, in a Kenyan refugee camp, adult women from her community pinned her down without anesthesia and used a razor blade.

“They tied my hands and my legs,” she recalled. “I remember being held down. I remember the pain—and knowing I could not escape.” She fought back hard enough to interrupt the procedure before it was finished, but the damage was done. The wound was washed with salt water. Years later, as a grown woman in Minnesota, Abdalla needed surgery, endured multiple miscarriages, and faced excruciating difficulties with intimacy. Today she leads the Somaliweyn Relief Agency, determined to break the code of silence that protects the practice. ...

The numbers explain why Minnesota sits at the center of this American failure. Somalia reports a 98 percent prevalence rate among women and girls ages 15 to 49, according to United Nations figures. Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the United States, and federal estimates from more than a decade ago already placed tens of thousands of women and girls here at risk or already cut.

A CDC-supported study between 2019 and 2021 identified Minneapolis as one of four U.S. metro areas with a significant survivor population. Yet the Minnesota Department of Health does not track specific FGM cases, and no state agency publishes enforcement data. ...

1 posted on 02/23/2026 8:51:22 PM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: ViLaLuz

Evil


2 posted on 02/23/2026 8:53:01 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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Minnesota first banned the practice in 1994, making it a felony with no parental-consent defense. Congress later strengthened federal law, with President Donald Trump signing expansions in 2018 and the Stop FGM Act in 2021 to cover interstate and international travel. A 2017 federal case in Michigan involved two Minnesota girls allegedly taken across state lines for the procedure, but that prosecution collapsed on jurisdictional grounds before the statute was fixed. In Minnesota itself, court records, licensing boards, and county attorneys show a perfect record of inaction: not one documented prosecution in thirty-two years. ...

... The pattern is familiar: Minnesota authorities have hesitated before when cultural sensitivity collided with evidence of large-scale wrongdoing, whether in welfare fraud or daycare scandals. ...


3 posted on 02/23/2026 8:54:02 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Salamander

Yes, evil people love hurting and mutilating children. Just like those pushing transgenderism.


4 posted on 02/23/2026 8:55:56 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ViLaLuz

And women back the dems.

It baffles the mind.

As usual, Tampon Tim to the rescue!


5 posted on 02/23/2026 8:59:53 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegence to the flag of te USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: ViLaLuz

God sure must have infinite patience.


6 posted on 02/23/2026 9:10:36 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: DoughtyOne

The 19th amendment was a horrible mistake.


7 posted on 02/23/2026 9:11:39 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: ViLaLuz

Gee. Where are the feminists?


8 posted on 02/23/2026 9:14:41 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: ViLaLuz

I cannot find one redeeming thing about Somalia, Somalian culture, and the hundreds of thousands of idiots They brought over here from that country.

When the Obama administration started shipping them over here, I can only compare it to taking a syringe full of all virus and basically injecting it into your bloodstream


9 posted on 02/23/2026 9:17:22 PM PST by suasponte137
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To: DoughtyOne

There’s a reason the devil went to Eve and not Adam.


10 posted on 02/23/2026 9:20:59 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ViLaLuz

It’s all a part of the Gorgeous Mosaic.


11 posted on 02/23/2026 9:27:05 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: suasponte137

Wasn’t Bush the first one to bring them here?


12 posted on 02/23/2026 9:52:51 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: ViLaLuz

A rich vibrant culture and traditions bringing so my lovely contributions to the US.


13 posted on 02/23/2026 10:00:31 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: suasponte137

They came to loot and vote Democrat.


14 posted on 02/23/2026 10:00:41 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Organic Panic

Yes like bananas and rice.


15 posted on 02/23/2026 10:02:35 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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> God sure must have infinite patience.

The record shows that His patience is long, but not infinite. Sooner or later He gets tired of this sh*t and drops the hammer.

16 posted on 02/23/2026 10:07:08 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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I read an account of this kind of procedure in a Readers Digest article some 35 years ago.

Even their abbreviated version was horrific.

This sounds very similar although there’s no way to know if it’s the same woman.

What a horrible existence. And what an atrocity that this isn’t addressed. But I suppose in light of how democrats do their father’s bidding of stealing, killing, and destroying, it’s hardly a surprise they aren’t objecting to mutilation of girls.

Feminists are such hypocrites in that they aren’t addressing and condemning this practice. Heck, I see far more outrage over circumcising baby boys than I ever saw or heard about this barbaric, despicable practice that GIRLS have to endure.


17 posted on 02/23/2026 10:08:51 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: ViLaLuz

OMG! And women actually advocate this godawful practice. Un”freakin”believable.


18 posted on 02/23/2026 10:09:46 PM PST by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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To: dayglored

Something to look forward to.


19 posted on 02/23/2026 10:30:06 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: ViLaLuz

👍🏻


20 posted on 02/23/2026 10:30:35 PM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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