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Female Genital Mutilation

Rise in female genital mutilation in Londonistan

August 23, 2010

Cultural Enrichment (as usual, nothing to do with Islam. Except when it does: ‘its the sunnah of the profit’) The number of cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) reported in London has risen and some procedures are taking place in the city, a doctor has said. BBC/thanks to the RoP Dr Comfort Momah, who runs [...]

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Retreat From the “Nick?” Not So Fast…..

May 30, 2010

Tim Blair: MUTILATION NATION FORMER sex discrimination commissioner Pru Goward says genital mutilation of girls is widespread as doctors here consider the practice. By Padraic Murphy and Kate Sikora/Daily Telegraph “There’s not been one prosecution. People coming here as a refugee or a migrant need to have it explained to them it attracts a jail [...]

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Horror in the U.S.: 228,000 women have undergone or are at risk for female genital mutilation

May 22, 2010

H/T JW “Cutting” doesn’t describe it. “Circumcision” doesn’t, either. It is mutilation, plain and simple, and must be recognized as such. But at least this story doesn’t entirely tiptoe around the prevalence of the practice in Muslim countries. It may be a millennia-old practice, but the fact remains that Islamic law embraced it, and that [...]

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“Don’t cut too deep…”

March 26, 2010

Clit-cutting in Indonesia. Look out for ‘defenders of Islam’ who’ll pop up to tell us its all ‘cultural’ and has ‘nothing to do with Islam’. 30 years ago virtually unheard of in this formerly Hindu nation, female genital mutilation is now common like the hijab. According to a 2003 study by the Population Council, an [...]

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Are You a Sponsor of Female Genital Mutilation?

September 30, 2009

Are you sending money to any of the 5 big aid organizations? Chances are your help does more damage than good: 400,000 sponsored girls who are marketed by the big development organizations PLAN International, World Vision, Kindernothilfe and ChildFund do not receive protection from female genital mutilation. We have started a new campaign, at sponsoredgirl.com, [...]

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Europe’s Helping Hand To Female Genital Mutilation

May 21, 2009

Update: Video on FGM in Islamic communities Posted on September 18, 2011 by Eeyore/Vlad Tepes This is good but brace yourselves. I like how black women activists, what we used to call ‘feminists’, meaning they fought for rational rights for women, like the right not to have all your sexual equipment removed for example, are being told that [...]

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