Posted on 05/19/2014 10:21:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Campaign groups and survivors warn that despite legislation against FGM, thousands of American girls are still at risk
Like many teens coming up to summer break, Leyla was excited about her vacation. Born and raised in the midwest, her parents told her that for a special treat she was going to fly with them to Somalia to meet her grandparents and extended family.
“Even though I’m one of four girls I was the one they picked to go.I felt like I really was the lucky one,” she says. But when she got there, instead of practicing Somali and hanging out with her cousins, she discovered the reason for the trip was quite different.
She was driven to a remote village and told she was going to have her clitoris removed. “I just felt like she had ambushed me. I felt scared but I also felt like I had no choice [...] I felt mad and scared but I didn’t know what to do. I felt so powerless.”
Campaign groups and survivors of FGM warn that despite legislation against female genital mutilation – which involves removing part or all of a girls outer sexual organs and can result in physical complications, death in childbirth and lifelong trauma – American girls are being taken out of the country to be cut, and may be subjected to mutilation on US soil.
A lack of widespread knowledge and information about FGM put girls like Leyla at risk, says Shelby Quast, policy advisor at the campaign group Equality Now. “One of our biggest concerns is that girls are being taken out of the country for vacation cutting during school vacations,” she says. “We look at the various diaspora communities and as they grow, the number of girls at risk grows as well.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Uh, sure. And this unfortunate young lady is not an example of fgm "on U.S. soil," since she was taken to Somalia.
The penalty shoud be if your daughter is found to have had this done then the father has his entire member removed with a rusty hacksaw.
After a trial of course.
As a Mother, this makes me physically ill. This is happening to American Girls!!! This is the real war on women.
[ As a Mother, this makes me physically ill. This is happening to American Girls!!! This is the real war on women. ]
This is ONE GOOD instance when Child Protective Services SHOULD step in an DO SOMETHING....
Of course they would rather go after some Girl in Boston Childrens Hospital whose parents wanted a second opinion....
It makes me sick as well...
[ After a trial of course.
We MUST follow proper procedures. ]
Indeed!
But I say the Father need to be Caponized with all due process and all due haste for doing this to their own daughters...
Make his sorry arse have to hit the toilet seat everytime he needs to do a number 1 and take away his ability ability to have another daughter he can multuilate.
Although I'd like to think that I played a major role in his firing I understand,realistically,that it's highly unlikely that I did.
How silly you are! *American* girls? No,they're *moslem* girls and we all know that moslems needn't obey any laws or moral absolutes with which they disagree.
Muslims seem to have achieved the same status as our American Indians. They can vote and receive benefits in America, but do not have to obey our laws.
A dark world is getting darker. Jesus is coming soon and we're to shine as lights in a dark place in the meantime.
This could be limited (probably not stopped altogether) by laws that allocate responsibility to the parents/guardians for an underage child and include a ‘failure to report’ clause. A deportation to country of origin (or heritage for those born here) would be icing on the cake. At the moment IMHO, nothing is done at all.
Regardless, you did the right thing.
His Schwartz should be given treatment with a rusty egg beater, his pieces doused in muratic acid and his right hand put into a blender for two minutes.
Then his elbows clogged against a piece of 8x8 redwood, so as not to shatter them but, rather soften them, so they dangle loosely.
For extree poiyents his ears would be severed, his nose removed and his teeth knocked out using a wooden mallet.
Then, using a nail gun, shoot both patellas 12 times.
Finally, using an exacto knife, make a V cut on both achilles and finish the job by removing his big toes.
My idea on a whim and only then, afterward, would he be given a fair trial.
Muslim men must be the most insecure people on earth to insist that their women be mutilated so they cannot enjoy sex.
A lot of times it’s the mother who wants this operation, sometimes against the father’s wishes, or they just don’t tell him.
[ A lot of times it’s the mother who wants this operation, sometimes against the father’s wishes, or they just don’t tell him. ]
Whichever parent is involved they need to be severly punished.
“American girls are being taken out of the country to be cut”
I read an article that girls were being advised to put a spoon in their underwear so when they are flagged at the airport, they can privately tell someone they are being forcibly taken from the country in order to be sexually mutilated.
Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.
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