Posted on 10/27/2006 1:21:48 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
LAWRENCEVILLE, Georgia (AP) -- The trial of an Atlanta-area father accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors is focusing attention on an ancient African practice that experts say is slowly becoming more common in the U.S. as immigrant communities grow.
Khalid Adem, a 30-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, is charged with aggravated battery and cruelty to children.
Human rights observers said they believe this is the first criminal case in the U.S. involving the 5,000-year-old practice.
Prosecutors say Adem used scissors to remove his daughter's clitoris in their apartment in 2001. The child's mother said she did not discover it until more than a year later.
"He said he wanted to preserve her virginity," Fortunate Adem, the girl's mother, testified this week. "He said it was the will of God. I became angry in my mind. I thought he was crazy."
The girl, now 7, also testified, clutching a teddy bear and saying that her father "cut me on my private part." Adem cried loudly as his daughter left the courtroom.
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Hopefully we can. Sounds to me like he must have broken about a dozen. Will it be a jury trial? I didn't catch that detail. I would guess a jury would hear the evidence, take the judge's instructions, and return a just verdict.
Well, I'll take that as confirmation. I don't need to burn a whole lot of calories to connect the dots, it fits the Islam modus operandi.
Disgusting!
Paging Lorena Bobbit.
Wikipedia has a good article on it. There are varying degrees of it but Somalians tend to perform the most severe types.
The Mother would definitely have known; I can't picture a Muslim man doing the family laundry and there would have been blood.
Where are the American feminists on this?
Helllloooooo, are there any feminists out there who even care about this two year old child?
Where's NOW? Where's the ACLU? Where's the Defeatocratic Party's Ann Lewis, and Donna Brazzile?
What are they so afraid of?
The aim of this butchery is to make sexual pleasure impossible for the female, ever. Urination is comromised. It even sex (and childbirth) dangerous because of the poor healing, scarring, and residual infections.
Of course, I'm going deaf with the howls of horror and outrage from the feminists!! (/sarc)
What is Satanism for 200?
Senator Webb sez:
"I didn't even know two-year-old girls HAD foreskin! All I know about are little boys!"
Ex-senator Foley sez:
"Little boys? Humma humma humma!"
"to make sexual pleasure impossible for the female"
From what I know about Islam the fellows may need no assistance in this area. I'm sure it's not at the top of the list.
Exactly. For most practicing Muslims (not including the "moderate" Muslims) the relationship between male and female is one of dominance and submission. Sex is not a mutual act of commitment and pleasure, its a domination of the male over the female. I read an article in the Readers Digest many years ago about a black lady from Somalia (she's a supermodel now-can't remember her name) who survived circumcision. Very compelling story.
Why should immigrants assimilate into our culture? Because it's the BEST CULTURE IN THE WORLD. Other cultures are not equally valuable. Ours is fair, sane, and moral. Most others are not.
That's horrible!
American parents cannot be notified if their daughter is having an abortion, but an African can perform a common African custom of removing a sex organ. This is a duct tape moment. I bet the libs would side WITH this man.
Oh, so close, but we're looking for a slightly different variation of the term "Satanism"...
;-)
"Very compelling story."
How they relate to each other, per the dictates of their religion - if you would call it that - speaks volumes of their relationship to their "god".
The women who do survive it and manage to escape from that culture usually end up being very strong and inspirational people.
Man, I really wish I could remember the model's name...maybe I'll try to look it up.
The more I think about this story, I have two little girls 3 and 18 months, the more it smells to high heaven.
There is no way the mother didn't know. Was the two year old potty trained, so completely the mother never assited? Not even diapers at night? Did the little girl never bathe? Was she not in pain afterwords, was the mother not the least bit curious? Was there no blood, no bandages?
What mother misses this????????
That poor child deserves so much better.
Good point.
People try to brush off the severity of this crime by comparing it to male circumcision. There can be benefits to male curcumcision, there are no benefits for women.
Depending on what's been done, removed or sewn up, women can die during their period, from toxic shock syndrome. It's amazingly evil.
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