… stand for the hundreds of millions of women around the Muslim world getting their clits ripped off and their vaginal lips stitched closed at birth.
Franchement, Dear Reader, UD can barely stand to cover the ongoing sickening global atrocity of FGM; but when a newborn bleeds out because her sexual organs were slashed to bits in the name of Allah, it’s kind of hard to keep quiet. At least this event is disgusting enough to get significant world coverage; at least the three lower than dirt women who held down an infant and slit her up the middle and watched her die have been charged.
But it’s Gambia and listen. You don’t know shit about little Gambia, but close to one hundred percent of its babies and girls get their genitals slashed off.
Oh Egypt? Egypt, you say? Pretty much the same statistic there, guys. And Egypt’s all big and we’ve heard of it and all. Same slitting them down the middle.
Oh England? Really?? England tries hard to detect and punish FGM among its Muslim population, but unless a hospital ends up with a bloodied dead baby nothing much will be detected.
… FGM kills 44 000 girls each year according to recent research, which analysed 15 African countries. This means that FGM is a bigger cause of death than malnutrition, measles, meningitis, HIV/Aids, and many other health threats for girls in the 15 countries studied... The global figure for deaths from FGM is likely to be much higher than 44 000, when all populations are included—particularly those from Indonesia, Somalia, Somaliland, and Sudan, which have a high prevalence of FGM... [The practice is still legal in] Mali, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Somalia.