OneWingedBird
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A cautionary tale in what we are willing to believe. :!:
OneWingedBird said:A cautionary tale in what we are willing to believe. :!:
Mythopoeika said:OneWingedBird said:A cautionary tale in what we are willing to believe. :!:
Hmmm. Maybe we are the ones being manipulated. Interesting.
Two arrested in London on suspicion of conspiracy to commit FGM
A 72-year-old man and 40-year-old woman are currently in police custody after being arrested on Friday
Two people have been arrested for conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation (FGM), according to reports.
A 72-year-old man was stopped by police while going through customs at Heathrow after he arrived in Britain accompanied by an 11-year-old girl from Uganda’s capital Kampala early on Friday morning.
A 40-year-old woman was arrested in Hackney under Section 2 of the FGM Act 2003.
Police told the press that the two arrests were connected.
In a statement they said: “Officers acted upon information given and a 40-year-old woman was arrested in Hackney under Section 2 of the FGM Act 2003, namely aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring a girl to carry out FGM on herself.”
Both suspects have been taken to east London police stations, where they remain in custody. ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr ... 30679.html
CPS defends decision to bring FGM case against doctor acquitted in 30 minutes
Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, has defended her decision to bring Britain’s first FGM case against a doctor who was cleared of committing the crime on a woman he stitched after the birth of a child.
A leading hospital consultant has accused the prosecution of being ludicrous after a jury took less than 30 minutes to clear Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena. The woman had been subject to FGM aged six in Somalia and the doctor was accused of reinstituting it.
Dr Katrina Erskine, consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Homerton hospital in London, said she was left with no faith in British justice.
I recommend that all Muslim clerics have genital mutilation done to them. Then perhaps they may cotton on that it's a bad idea and must be banned.
Well, male circumcision without consent. What modifications adults decide to make to their own bodies is their own business.
Sometimes male circumcision is medically necessary.
My son had to be circumcised when he was 7 years old, and I certainly wouldn't have wished it on him.
But his paternal grandfather had to be circumcised when he was first married which must have been dreadful -much worse!
Just now on Woman's Hour, UK Radio 4, there's a discussion of FGM in white American children.
Two American women, one in her 70s and one in her 40s, describe how it happened in their Christian families, where there was a revulsion towards masturbation.
Little girls who were seen touching their own genitals were sometimes taken to doctors for clitoridectomy. This happened to one of the women interviewed, called Renee Bergstrom.
I read about this many years ago in a book published in the late '70s about woman and sexuality. It arose from a determination to prevent female masturbation and a general fear of female sexual expression.
(According rot the book surgeons also offered married women who had problems with orgasm an operation to re-align the vagina to give more direct penile/clitoral contact. Some women apparently had this done with varying results.)
It was believed to have died out by the middle of the last century, but apparently there's a possibility it's still being practised in closed American Christian communities. How terrible.
...FGM in white American children.
Two American women...
How terrible.
It's probably like most things, out of site out of mind. Muslim communities are often very closed anyway. I don't mean that in a derogatory way, but it's true. And I know and like, lots of Muslims and Jews. (Not so many here, but in other countries). In some parts of even England though, it can be a different world. It even feels like you're in a different country sometimes. Apart from the climate.It shouldn't matter who does it. It is totally unacceptable, along with arranged marriage and various other medieval practices aimed at women which are illegal in this country but never (or hardly ever) prosecuted.
I can't understand women who worry that there isn't 50/50 representation in boardrooms but stay quiet over this stuff.
A Kenyan doctor is seeking to legalize female genital mutilation
A female doctor in Kenya wants female genital mutilation to be decriminalized.
Tatu Kamau is asking Kenya's courts to allow women above the age of 18 to be able to practice female genital mutilation (FGM), saying they have a right to choose what they do to their bodies at that age.
She wants the Kenyan government to annul the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act 2011 and the board set up to enforce the law disbanded.
FGM is widely condemned in the country and across parts of Africa but Kamau argues in a 2017 petition filed against the government, that it is an age-old Kenyan tradition and that an outright ban infringes on a woman's right to exercise her cultural beliefs.
Kamau is representing herself in the case before the Nairobi High Court. She told judges on Thursday that the term mutilation is "offensive" and denigrates the cultural significance of the practice.
"Women who took their daughters for circumcision were not taking them there to destroy them. Those children were not thrown away afterward, they were celebrated as respected members of the society. To use the word in our context suggests that it is malicious and that we are intentionally damaging our females. To me, it is very wrong," Kamau said.
She is pushing for medical workers and "certified" traditional cutters to be allowed to circumcise women. ...