Female circumcision.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....llegally-Britain.html

With as many as 100,000 women who have undergone this brutal genital mutilation illegally in Britain, why are the police failing to act against this barbaric practice?

/// The Metropolitan Police said since 2008, it had received 166 reports of people who fear they are at risk of FGM but it has failed to bring forward a single perpetrator. ///

/// It is the same for all 43 forces across England and Wales with no convictions for the offence ever taking place.///

[naomi24]

Me too, Ladybirder. I can't find the words to describe how this makes me feel.

[Jemisa]

We all know the reason why boys may be circumsized but what is the reason for little girls as young as 5 years to be circumsized? & really I'm quite ignorant about it what exactly do they do it & why?
Is it a trible thing?
What countries think of it as the norm?

Jem

[naomi24]

Jem, read the thread - but take my advice, don't watch the first video unless you have a strong stomach. (I only got through a bit of the first, and couldn't bear to attempt the second). I really can't understand why Keyplus posted them.

[ladybirder]

The second one isn't graphic naomi, words only - and I don't mean that in a trite way.

[naomi24]

Still think I'll give it a miss, Ladybirder. I felt quite sick after watching a bit of the first one.

[ladybirder]

Jeez it is grim. And the indifference to her suffering from the other women I find incomprehensible. It seems like a - we had to go through it so get over it kind of attitude. None of them comforted her or helped her. Ooh I'm raging again just thinking about it.

[naomi24]

I only got to the bit where there was blood all over the floor. That was enough for me.

[ummmm]

Shall I give it a miss then?

I get emotional very easily...!!

[naomi24]

In that case, I should if I were you ummmm.

[emmie]

I have seen footage on tv that was quite explicit, and one thing that comes to mind is how complicit some women are in this barbaric practice, that someone said exactly what was mentioned in the programme, if they had it done to them, why should others be spared. That is bizarre in the extreme.
It was a documentary some time back, and they added the words, scenes of an upsetting nature, and they weren't wrong.

[bigbadmarty]

That is the most obscene thing I've ever seen , and that prat in his flowing robes comes a close second - ignorant cruel morons

[emmie]

that is why i didn't open those links, why did he post them.

[birdie1971]

Keyplus -

Since you seem quite desperate to disassociate Islam with female circumcision, why (as Naomi has pointed out) have you posted a video that shows Dr. Bilal Philips saying that it is permissible in Islam?

Quote from the good doctor - “... Is female circumcision / female genital mutilation permissible in Islam? Yes. But... at a very limited scale... [they should] only take a small portion from the end of the clitoris... that is permissible from an Islamic perspective..."

[naomi24]

I doubt any of us will get an answer to anything, Birdie. I'll be very surprised if Keyplus comes back here.

I asked the Ed to remove that disgusting video - and he has.