Female genital mutilation – tradition or torture?: comments

quoteDenis Tverd

October 30, 2009, 15:30

When people use god as a reason to commit such barbarity, it scares me to the core. Any person who commits this barbaric act, ROT IN HELL!

quoteleonidas

August 16, 2009, 03:33

Female genital mutilation is a barbaric practice that still is practiced in Muslim countries to remove sexual pleasure from females so they will no be tempted to commit adultery.Its a barbaric custom a crime actually and has to be condemned hy United nations and its perpetrators be arrested by Interpol and be punished.The islamic torture of females ,after 1400 years must end!

quoteAmber

July 20, 2009, 22:58

I think this is the most barbaric thing I have ever heard and i can't belive that this is being allowed to happen in some countries, it needs to be outlawed, it is immoral and wrong. Women have the right to feel pleasure and have the option of having kids, making them infertile and allowing those girls to be open to so many infections is just ridiculous. Circumcision on a male is completely different, doing so does not make a man infertile or take away his right to feel pleasure, it takes the foreskin off to help decrease on infection and in some cases is an appearance issue. they are not the same thing, and whoever thinks that is just uneducated.

quoteJG

July 05, 2009, 21:35

So-called female circumcision is torture and illegal. The intention is to remove a woman's pleasure when making love, the idea being that if a woman has any pleasure from this act, she is certain to commit adultery. This is part of the larger idea that men cannot help themselves when committing adultery and that women are to blame for encouraging men (even in cases of rape).
As far as culture and tradition go, in most of Western Europe, it used to be customary to torture those who were not Catholics until they admitted the crime of heresy whereupon they would be executed for their sin. No doubt, Muslims in Western Europe are glad that Catholics no longer follow such barbaric customs. It took many wars for Western Europe to free itself from the rule of the Catholic empire and it's violent oppression - we are not about to tolerate the same from Islam.
I think those involved in female genital mutilation should be locked and the key thrown away.

quoteBiloxi

June 27, 2009, 11:24

What better way to control the human being, than, at birth or whenever, to use OUR SEXUAL ENERGY to enslave the mind. Torture, mind control, etc., to | of | for children --- is the number one tool of control, by the so-called "richest rulers of earth," for their families' ensured capture of masses of future generations of THEIR common stock. Animals, obviously (not the commoners).

How difficult is it to understand the agendas of those who figure out how to harvest the brain of humans - it is not, just follow the idea of how a brain | mind | soul/spirit can be broken-molded-formed-controlled. Humans since the beginning of time have been, unfortunately, turning more towards barbarism and cannibalism than enlightenment. This is truly not rocket science.

NO NO NO 'foreskin' mutilation MALE OR FEMALE - an 'energy' which has been co-created by an energy that absolutely no human being can even begin to actually define WHOLLY (sexual energy in the physical body) - decided as useless or unnatural, AND, the decision/s of mutilation and worse are formed in minds not balanced, by humans in control who think this is a natural or 'normal' idea.

In other words, there is absolutely not one good reason or purpose to mutilate the physical body, which is the greatest creation known to our species! Obviously, we have yet to figure out just how we become a human being.

Maybe it is time to contemplate how the mind-body-spirit becomes manifest and therefore, take the Mengele of our species and carefully corral this miscreant-type thinking so the miracle can take care of itself without the modern scientists of eugenics mutilating the competition for their own families of clear DNA corruption, distortion and now it is becoming evident our best interest for the future, is not in the hearts and minds of those in control of decision-making for the human physical body.

quoteRoger J

June 27, 2009, 07:26

Just as barbaric as circumcision carried out on newborn children. This painful and completely unnecessary procedure is practised by Jews, most Islamic cultures and even some African Christian churches on obscure and ridiculous religious pretexts. It shows how little we have actually progressed since we lived in caves!

quotePauline

June 27, 2009, 01:10

It is torture. It is also child abuse.

Just because something is "traditional" does not mean it is not torture. In Britain, they used to hang anyone who stole a loaf of bread or murdered someone, they had no "let the punishment fit the crime"! That is what the book Les Miserable is all about! The punishment if you were a commoner for treason was being drawn and quartered, while beheading was for the rich found guilty of treason. Beheading was considered the easiest form of death, easier than being hung. Surely, we consider being drawn and quarted torture now! Much that was tradition is now considered criminal torture...like foot binding.

I would NEVER go to a country that allowed such things and subject my child to such treatment! I would fight anyone to the death go keep from such a horror being imposed on me and mine. I think Sarkozy is right...if I have to put on a Chador if I go to Iran, then we have the right to demand that people respect OUR values just as well.

quoteMark

June 26, 2009, 15:01

Some forms of female circumcision do less damage than the usual form of male circumcision. One just removes the clitoral hood (the female foreskin), so it's the exact equivalent of cutting off a boy's foreskin. In some countries, female circumcision is performed by doctors in operating theatres with pain relief. Conversely, male circumcision is often performed as a tribal practice. When circumstances are similar, so are outcomes, and 22 boys died of circumcision in Eastern Cape Province last year.

Are you aware that the USA also used to practise female circumcision? Fortunately, it never caught on the same way as male circumcision, but there are middle-aged white US American women walking round today with no external clitoris because it was removed. Some of them don't even realise what has been done to them. There are frequent references to the practice in medical literature up until at least 1959. Most of them point out the similarity with male circumcision, and suggest that it should be performed for the same reasons. Blue Cross/Blue Shield had a code for clitoridectomy till 1977.

One victim wrote a book about it:
Robinett, Patricia (2006). "The rape of innocence: One woman's story of female genital mutilation in the USA."

Nowadays, it's illegal even to make an incision on a girl's genitals though, even if no tissue is removed. Why don't boys get the same protection?

Don't get me wrong. I'm totally against female circumcision, and I probably spend a lot more time and money trying to stop it than most people. If people are serious about stopping female circumcision though, they also have to be against male circumcision. Even if you see a fundamental difference, the people that cut girls don't (and they get furious if you call it "mutilation"). There are intelligent, educated, articulate women who will passionately defend it, and as well as using the exact same reasons that are used to defend male circumcision in the US, they will also point to male circumcision itself, as well as labiaplasty and breast operations, as evidence of western hypocrisy regarding female circumcision. The sooner boys are protected from genital mutilation in the west, the sooner those peoples that practice FGM will interpret western objections as something more than hypocritical cultural imperialism.

quoteKenneth Wilford

June 26, 2009, 13:02

This practice is long over due to be outlawed ,It is barberic and belongs in the past with a lot of other things that rule lives to day. I.E the dress code in some countrys . WE are living in the in this Century not in the past were some would like us to be , They are on a power mission. Its just to satisfy their EGO`s

quotesam

June 26, 2009, 12:13

Its Barbaric, its a bad element of culture that has to be done away with like other cultural elements that were wrong and discarded by the same society where it was practiced.
In my professional life I had seen for myself the damage this causes. Please understand that this is nothing like the male circumcision where a flap of useless skin is removed. A male equivalent of a female circumcision would be the removal of parts of the penis and scrotum.
The scaring destroys the lives of this young ladies with constant infections and infertility.
It is in fact illegal in most countries where it was and still practiced, it still continues among the rural and poorly educated masses away from the eyes of authorities.

quoteErgatis

June 26, 2009, 11:08

These people are a little better than cannibals!!! How can the civlised world tolerate such people?

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