Posted on 06/07/2008 6:32:27 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
OSLO (Reuters) - Police in Norway have arrested a Gambian-born man and charged him and his wife with subjecting five of their six daughters to genital mutilation, officials said on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT
The practice, also known as female circumcision, is outlawed in Norway and arouses horror among many people in the West but is a rite of passage for young women in many countries, predominantly in Africa.
The youngest of the five mutilated girls, all born in Norway, is five years old, police officials said. The others are aged seven, 10, 13 and 14 and live in Gambia, national broadcaster NRK reported.
Police officer Hanne Kristin Rohde, head of the violent crime and vice section of the Oslo police, said on Norwegian commercial television TV 2 that the father -- a naturalized Norwegian citizen along with his wife -- was taken into custody on Friday.
"Norwegian police have charged this couple of Gambian background for breaking the Norwegian law on genital mutilation -- five of their six daughters are circumcised," Rohde said.
The mother is pregnant with a seventh child and was deemed unfit to be held in jail.
Norwegian authorities have been cracking down on the practice since mid-2007, barring families from traveling abroad if they suspect they plan to have the procedure done outside the country.
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“..muslims are ruining Europe.”
Wow, understatement of the last 20 years. Don’t you think that Muslims are also ruining the US?
The one thing is DOESN’T say, is where these mutilations took place. If all but one daughter is in Gambia, it’s likely the mutilations took place in Gambia.
So where does the Norwegian government get the right to criminalize actions outside its’ borders ??
Yes, FGM is a disgusting, barbaric practice. But governments reaching beyond their borders is bad, too. . .
For the exact same reason Somali Muslims are populating Maine, and Arabic Muslims are populating Iceland, and Pakistani Muslims are populating England, and Moroccan Muslims are populating France.
To infest the world with Muslims.
Deliberately moving to cultures and societies you despise whose ways are offensive to you and whose language you do not speak means only one thing as far as I'm concerned......populate, infiltrate, then dominate.
Gallows humor KJC1.
As posted previous, most likely the result of Islamists. Islam SHOULD be ridiculed, made fun of, chastised, insulted and combated in any form. TROP are the ones that are sick, not posters. The "victims" of Islam are not being made fun of, only islam itself. It is a dirty religion an all jokes about it should sink WAY below the norm only to keep up with Islam's tenacity to be sick itself.
Indigent third worlders an ocean away aren’t deliberately moving anywhere. How is a Somali supposed to get to Maine, to Norway, to anywhere further than the next shanty town in Somali land?
And what’s in Maine or Norway for an illiterate who doesn’t even speak the language to dominate?
These peasants aren’t in a position to deliberately doing anything.
It’s secular western liberals inviting them in. It’s secular western liberals sending the planes to pick them up. It’s secular western liberals giving away the store in welfare benefits once they’re here. It’s secular western liberals writing the thought crimes laws for people who don’t welcome them.
Leaving the doors and windows open, the sinks running, the fridge open and coming home to a flooded dump full of roaches and rats ain’t the vermins’ fault.
Dude, it’s hopeless. Don’t charge them, deport them. Soon, critical mass will be reached, as has been reached here with the dirty, uneducated Mexicans, and the Muzzies will be dictating the laws, as they are starting to do in the U.K. Send the barbarians back, re-colonize their lands, or die, Western Civilization, die!
Multiculturalism, folks. Come on now, lets show some respect toward other cultures, shall we ?
The article also states that the girls have Norwegian schooling and Norwegian papers. The family lived in Norway at the time the middle girls (if not all) were mutilated.
IMO, the family sent girls back to avoid discovery of what they did. The youngest girls may have even been born in Norway and then subjected to the horror in Europe and only saw Gambia so parents didn’t see jail in Norway.
IMHO, proper punishment for the father would be total castration.
Well, it’s good to see that at least one European country is cracking down on these deranged kinds of practices. It seems mostly in the news we see Europeans being so meek about anything Muslim immigrants do. I’m glad Norway is taking a hard line about this.
...and why are under age mutilated Norwegian girls living in Gambia?
Celebrate Diversity!
“Why is it called female circumcision? I think the point is to cut the whole clitoris off, not just the surrounding skin.”
AND to sew most of the opening shut, leaving only a small hole to urinate through. It’s insane.
They are not insane sir. They are depraved. It is the woman and mother that has been the civilizing agent through history. When the women of society are nothing but beasts of burden with no rights, and degraded to chattel and worthy for naught but mans pleasure and reproduction, the male side of that society becomes just what was described in this article.
No they are not insane but are sociopathic as a society.
“These psychos are coming into our country legally by the planeload. Apparently our government doesn’t think they’re psychos. You can bet that, not long from now, female circumcision will be allowed right here. After all, if abortion and same-sex marriage is allowed, then why not some “religious” custom. We’d better get used to the blessings of diversity and multiculturalism.”
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I don’t know where your “here” is but I’d bet more than a few bucks that you can find circumsized young girls in Dearborn, Mich., in Minneapolis and in SW suburban Chicago.
He/she could possibly follow the Gambian???
but something I admittedly did when young too...like before I was a parent or had lost most of the people close to me I had known since birth
it's about perspective.....I just fail to see much to laugh about with barely pubescent girls being held down and butchered by family members and without anesthetic probably and for the sole purpose of depriving them for life of serious clitorally stimulated orgasms....yep that is damned funny isn't it?
heck, let's move on to our special chapter on Pediatric Oncology humour shall we while we're at it?
or maybe the Auschwitz for laughs tour?
it’s left open enough for penetration but they lop off the clitoris and labia majora
they don’t want women to feel much
real bastards....hell, that’s what makes women what they are
sorta
My FRiend, you are behind the times. Most countries now feel they have right do that, including the USA. It all started with traveling for the purpose of engaging in illegal sex acts, such as with underage partners, but like so many laws, once the precedence is set, more and more actions are criminalized.
There are a lot of Africans/Muslims in all the Scandinavian countries. Malmo, Sweden, will be the first European city to be more than 50% Muslim, - it's just about there now.
It must a laugh to be around you.
being amused at the tragedy of others is not amusement, it’s a psychological defensive reaction
along the lines of laughing when scared
or it’s just the province of boys who haven’t grown up
from weak people
are you amused yet BE?
lol
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