FGM Survivors: 'It Happens on US Soil, But it Happens in Secret' (Female Circumcision)

The Guardian ^ | Tuesday 13 May 2014 | Alexandra Topping

[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.”

[Uncle Miltie]

“Muslim men must be the most insecure people on earth”

Muslims couldn’t produce a transistor radio without Western technology.

They are cave men on a good day.

[BigEdLB]

agree

[DoughtyOne]

You did exactly the right thing. Good for you.

[Blood of Tyrants]

1400 years after Mohammed Muslims are still seventh century barbarians.

[DoughtyOne]

That this takes place, really angers me.  There is no medical justificaton for it whatsoever.  Furious would probably be a better word to describe what I feel when I think of it.

You have to wonder about a man, that would be so selfish as to desire his wife to have this done to her, so she would be incapable of full pleasure.

Well, I guess you don't, because such a person would not be a real man.  He would be an insecure beast, willing to harm the person that had the best chance in life of fulfilling him.  Except for her situation, you hope that man dies a very ugly death.


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[Ted Grant]

Why not call it female genital mutilation? Clarity.

[17th Miss Regt]

That sounds a lot like what Sir Robin was not afraid of.

[S.O.S121.500]

But I say the Father need to be Caponized with all due process and all due haste for doing this to their own daughters...
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Do not overlook the fact the mothers are as, if not more guilty of this travesty......

[nickcarraway]

They refer to it in the headline as FGM. I was worried the Admin Mod would pull the thread if I spelled it put in the title.

[S.O.S121.500]

The article doesn’t talk about it but I’m pretty sure this is radical Islam and diabolic Shari law at work.
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WRONG Grasshoppa’. It is all of islam, moderate muslime is an oxymoron...........

[Ted Grant]

Fair enough. Thanks for sharing it.

[Secret Agent Man]

don’t just do dad, mummy may want it to happen too.

[fortheDeclaration]

Yes, I looked in vain in the article for any link to Islam.

Nothing in the article on why this was done.

[hal ogen]

Where are the sicko-uber-feminists on this issue? Crickets...

[PapaNew]

OK, I guess I should have said these are radical Muslims following diabolic Islam and Sharia Law. (There ARE some Muslims who are not radical practitioners, which probably means they’re not fully engaged in the religion.)

[PapaNew]

If your woman doesn't enjoy sex, neither will you.

Islam and Sharia Law are Satanic.

[Twotone]

Islam is truly evil. If you haven’t listened to Walid Shoebat, this video is well worth the time...

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=walid+shoebat+2014&qpvt=walid+shoebat+2014&FORM=VDRE#view=detail&mid=929DB8C2A09FA387CD3B929DB8C2A09FA387CD3B

[Tax-chick]

I saw that too. However, the Somali girl in the article didn’t know the purpose of her trip to the Old Country, so that advice wouldn’t have helped her.

[S.O.S121.500]

OK, I guess I should have said these are radical Muslims following diabolic Islam and Sharia Law. (There ARE some Muslims who are not radical practitioners, which probably means they’re not fully engaged in the religion.)
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Your B.S. meter needs repair.....some history wouldn’t hurt you either.

[PapaNew]

Your attack-o-meter needs to be upgraded to include more than blank assertions with no supporting evidence or facts. Muslims argue constantly about how to apply the Quaran and Sharia law. Good luck proving every Muslim in America is a full practitioner of Islam including having their daughters mutilated.