Quote:“Also many communities view this as a rite of passage for girls to womanhood, to be prepared for marriage.
Some believe it enhances hygiene, fertility, or child survival.
It reinforces cultural identity ... and some believe it ensures a girl’s chastity before marriage and fidelity within marriage.”
Which countries practice FGM?
A UN study estimated at least 200 million girls and women worldwide have been subjected to some form of FGM.
The majority of affected women are from Egypt, Ethiopia and Indonesia; while the practice is almost universal in the much smaller countries of Djibouti, Guinea and Somalia, according to the UN.
In Indonesia in 2010, after a failed attempt to ban it outraged religious clerics, the government issued a decree that said it should only be done by health professionals and only involve the scratching of the clitoral hood “without injuring the clitoris.”
SBSthe above is an excerpt from a larger article
it contains photos of a child --- a very young child -- who's been forced by her 'mother' to undergo the ritual
it also contains a photo of two criminally ignorant and stupid hags proudly 'showing off their cutting instrument' -- a naked razor blade
FGM is illegal in Australia and a landmark court case was in 2018. Many take their daughters overseas in order for the barbarity to be conducted there
this is not our country when this ghastly insane ritual has blighted, as reported, 53,000 young girls, infants & women yet is largely hidden from the host population
this is appalling and without any justification other than ignorance, sadism, cowardice on the part of the so-called parents
condemns millions of women to PTSD
whilst crippling, maiming, killing and debasing millions more
anyone who believes they can offer justification on any grounds for this sub-human, barbaric 'custom' -- speak now. What's the justification?