09-03-2008, 03:16 PM
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GOT IT!
Had to look around quite a bit but I think it's worth while.
I've also had permission from the originator of this item to reproduce it here as long as I do so in its complete form, which I am doing
He writes ....
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I’ve got a bit of a fixation about Female Genital Mutilation, so often and wrongly called “Female Circumcision”.
Female circumcision is actually a procedure that is occasionally called for in the case of a condition called “Hooded Clitoris”.
This is a condition where the equivalent of the foreskin on a man that shields the clitoris is abnormally thick or has an abnormally small opening so that the clitoris receives little (or no) stimulation during sex, and can even become infected.
The treatment is often not even surgical, or in the case where surgery is required a simple small cut to open the skin is all that is required.
Female Genital Mutilation as another thing entirely.
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is an appalling abuse of women that is endemic amongst several nations, and despite what is said is at least acquiesced to in Islam and in some cases and in some sects as near to being mandatory as makes no odds.
That, combined with the selfishness of so many Muslim men and their contempt for women by seeing them as having lesser value than men, results in a virtual 100% prevalence in some (particularly African) countries.
But what IS FGM?
In essence it is the excision of parts of the female external sex organs, in many cases including the clitoris itself.
Not my words, but a very description of the of female genital mutilation, ---
“--- imagine if the entire head of the man’s penis were cut off with a broken razor blade, a piece of broken glass, or a penknife.
Then the remainder of the penis was pushed into the scrotum and his scrotum stitched up over it so that it was completely unreachable though provision was made in order for the man to urinate.
Then, years later, imagine a woman to whom he would be bound to for life whipping out a knife, slicing open the now healed scar on his scrotum, extracting the remaining part of his penis, and then lowering herself onto the headless stump for a short selfish shag to satisfy herself while he, receiving no pleasure at all, tried to choke down his screams out of fear of being beaten”
So why is it done?
In part because Mohammed did not condemn it when he encountered a female who practiced the “art”, and because in desensitising the woman it is supposed to ensure her modesty and reduce the likelihood of her “straying” from her husband.
It also is said to enhance the sex act for her man as a result of the resection of the vaginal entrance making it smaller.
In addition there are all sorts of Old Wives Tales about how it prevents everything from halitosis to cancer, but the reality is that none of these are true.
Unlike the case of male circumcision where there are proven health gains by being circumcised, the exact opposite is true of FGM and apart from the unbelievable pain suffered by the girl being mutilated death is far from being uncommon for a variety of causes ranging from shock to infection.
Should we be particularly concerned?
I believe that we should as apart from simple humanity there is a question that should be being asked of our politicians.
GIVEN THAT FGM is illegal in Britain and GIVEN THAT when a child is seen by a doctor or in a hospital any signs of non-accidental physical injury is observed an investigation involving the support services up to and including the police is put in train ….. then WHY IS IT that when children and juveniles who are presented for treatment and FGM is seen to have taken place there have so far in the UK been no prosecutions of parents and guardians of these injured children?
It is inconceivable that with the thousands of people in the UK who have been subject to FGM, many who have been taken out of the UK and even the EU in order to get around the existing legislation, a substantial number of cases of girls suffering from FGM have not been met in our hospitals and GP surgeries.
Would it not therefore be appropriate for our government to instigate a purge on this most awful form of child abuse, or is it that the government are simply too intent on not upsetting the people who have this thing done to their children.
There are questions that need to be put to our government, the most obvious being why is it that there so far has not been a single prosecution in the UK for the FGM of a child, at least at the latest time that I have been able to trace there had not and that was July of this year.
Maybe this is another subject to raise during “pub” and workplace discussions regarding just why the government are ignoring what is taking place in the Muslim colonies in order to further spread the word about what is being ignored out of a sense of fear or political expediency, or simply political correctness.
Related articles and sites
New Fgm Worry (from East London and West Essex Guardian Series)
BBC NEWS | UK | Girls still facing 'life of pain'
just two of many.
And what does FGM look like?
http://aussie_news_views.typepad.com...mages/fgm1.jpg
http://img69.exs.cx/img69/5982/femcirc1.jpg
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