Posted on 07/01/2007 10:43:03 AM PDT by wagglebee
More than 250 girls and women have sought help from Oslo's largest hospital in recent years, because of physical problems resulting from female circumcision, also known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
The mutilation, which many of the female patients were subjected to as young girls in several Muslim African countries and Northern Iraq, has left the women with severe urinary dysfunction, infections and problems after their vaginal openings were sewn shut.
Sarah Kahsay, a midwife at Ullevål University Hospital in Oslo, told newspaper Aftenposten that she and her colleagues have tried to help around 260 girls and women during the past three years.
Kahsay, of the National Competence Center for Minorities' Health at Ullevål, said that 90 percent of the girls and women are ethnic Somalians. Female genital mutilation has also been found, she said, among female patients from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Gambia and Senegal.
The mutilation also seems to have spread to the Kurdish community, with Kahsay mentioning that Norwegian Church Aid has claimed it's a problem for females from Northern Iraq. "Reports we've had from our health stations (in the Oslo area) involve Kurdish girls as young as 11 and 12, who've been circumcised," Kahsay said.
The girls and women have almost always said the circumcision, which is illegal in Norway, occurred before they emigrated. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported over the weekend, however, that an alarming number of young girls born or living in Norway have been taken back to Somalia during school holiday periods and subjected to circumcision.
The agonized screams of one young girl being forcibly held down while her genitals were being cut shook Norwegian viewers and has led to a political outcry on the issue. There have been calls for increased enforcement of the law prohibiting female circumciscion, a fatwa against the practice, and regular medical checks of young girls believed to be at risk.
Maybe soon people will realize it's not just issues like this, the entire satanic cult of Mohammad is barbaric.
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I just have to laugh. The rag heads hate dogs and yet I treat my dogs better than they do their daughters, sisters and wives.
They are just a higher form of animal. Meaning they walk up right, but my dogs are nicer, mo loyal, smarter, and smell better.
Oh, no. Do the Kurds practice this?
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And US feminists are saying what???......(crickets, I hear nothing but crickets).
I swear one of these days soon some vigilante either solo or in a group is going to start taking sniper shots at muslims, or maybe they are too terrified to attack Islam? I wonder if the infamous Texas Tower shooter would have had the nerve to shoot muslims in an Islamic country, would Dhamer eat Muslims? Would modern day serial killers back off of intended victims if they were Muslims? Would MS13 ganstas attack Muslims? Some questions are moot as nowadays most of the recent domestic mass shooters have Muslim beliefs.
At least I imagine that is why they don't help. I don't think they are COWARDS!
Reread what you wrote, because it doesn’t make sense.
I treat my dogs better than they do their daughters, sisters and wives
You really gotta wonder why the immigrants from these countries, who now
can enjoy freedom of religion,
would choose Islam for their daughters, sisters and wives.
THE LOWEST FORM OF SONS OF BITCHES THAT EVER WALKED THE FACE OF THIS EARTH. SOUND’S HARSH? IT AIN’T MY FRIEND... IT AIN’T! LEARN IT, UNDERSTAND IT AND GET READY. THESE PEOPLE WANT US GRAVE YARD ARSED DEAD AND... TAKE A MINUTE AND THINK ABOUT THIS. IF THESE YAHOOS WILL DO THIS TO THEIR WOMEN AND DAUGHTERS... WHAT IN NAME OF GOODNESS WILL THEY DO TO YOURS? ANYONE... ANYONE WHO WILL NOT STAND AGAINST SUCH SHOULD BE HORSE WHIPPED AT HIGH NOON... AND THAT GOES FOR THE SISTER BOY CLERGY AS WELL. PUSH IS NOW SHOVE.
I did, and it was a great read. I wish she’d understand the peace of Christ.
Too funny. My husband had a HUGE half Bull mastiff, half great dane named SAMPSON.
When Muslim men die and pass to Islamic Paradise, will be 72 virgins be mutilated?
Muslim women perform these circumcisions. They are the true scum of the earth.
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