The father of a 10-year-old girl who died after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) in Somalia has defended the practice.
Dahir Nur’s daughter died of blood loss on 17 July, two days after being taken to a traditional circumciser.
But he told Voice of America (VOA) “people in the area are content” with FGM even considering the dangers, adding it is the country’s “culture”.
According to Unicef, 98% of girls and women in Somalia have undergone FGM.
Dr Abdirahman Omar Hassan, director of Hanano hospital in the city of Dhusamareb, told VoA he had never seen “anyone who was mutilated like that in my life.”
[Nur’s daughter] had [also] caught tetanus, most likely from the unsterilised equipment used during the original procedure.
[Citizenship Minister Alan] Tudge warned Australia was veering towards a “European separatist multicultural model” and must do more to ensure the integration of migrants.
He had called for the nation to mount a “muscular” defence of Western liberal values and challenge the rise of identity politics, which was legitimising “practices and behaviours which should be deemed intolerable” …
“Hence, it takes years for some Western countries to even take a strong position against something as barbaric as female genital mutilation,” he said.
In his speech, Mr Tudge said we needed to pull “our ship back” to be firmly on the “Australian integrated path”.
“Some of the challenges to social cohesion that we are facing today are similar to ones that the UK is facing, such as ethnic segregation and liberal values being challenged.”
Switzerland has put in jail a woman who had the genitals of both of her very young children slashed.
The judgement was based on a relatively new article in Swiss law which aims to prevent Swiss-based families from having their daughters circumcised, whether in Switzerland or abroad.
Al’s enthusiasm for the practice makes him a perfect hire for this mass-mutilator.
Why is Martha’s Vineyard shunning me??
Is it my defense of female genital mutilation?
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Bloody but unbowed!
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UD‘s contribution:
Martha’s Vineyard, Be Not Proud
Martha’s Vineyard, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art none.
For those whom thou think’st thou dost shun
Are shunnèd not, poor Martha, nor yet canst thou diss me.
My barring from parties which but superficial be,
Gives me much pleasure; thus let disinvitations flow,
Happily this best of men does from thee go,
Rest from you libs, and soul’s delivery.
Thou art slave to cash, glitz, pr, and richer men,
And dost with status, cliques, and snobb’ry dwell,
Yet outcast solitude can serve us just as well…
Tis better than intimate dinners! Why swell’st thou then?
All summer seasons past, I wake eternally
And the Vineyard shall be no more; Martha, thou shalt die!
If O. had been seven years old.
She was 7 when her aunt told her they were going on an errand. She was taken to a dingy apartment. “The next thing I knew, my panties were being taken off and I was sort of just splayed on the ground,” she says.
“Then something really sharp happened,” she adds.
Her aunt ordered her to kiss the hand of the woman who cut her…
Does it get any kinkier?
Can you think of any better way to comprehensively destroy a woman?