Posted on 07/19/2015 2:03:18 PM PDT by markomalley
Reports that at least 50 girls were taken from the UK to Somalia for female genital mutilation are being investigated by Scotland Yard.
Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Tonge contacted the Metropolitan Police after spotting a large group of girls on a flight from Heathrow last Saturday.
The girls were said to be aged 11 to 17 and with their mothers or grandmothers.
It comes as Bedfordshire Police secured the UK's first FGM protection order, preventing two girls from going abroad.
The Metropolitan Police said officers from the Specialist Crime and Operations Command were investigating Lady Tonge's report.
Speaking to the BBC, Lady Tonge said the girls spoke English and were of Somali origin.
"It was just odd," she said. "They were young girls and mothers and a scattering of grannies."
They were on an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Addis Ababa on 11 July and according to the Lib Dem peer transferred onto a plane to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
Lady Tonge, along with the Labour MP for Halifax, Holly Lynch, was on a trip to the Financial Development Conference in Addis Ababa.
FGM, also termed female circumcision, is illegal in the UK. It refers to any procedure that alters or injures the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
It is a painful ritual carried out on women and young girls from certain communities from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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All cultures are equal.
Amazing what male insecurity will come up with.
No comment.
It’s like rape, a Muslim cultural thing that must not be interfered with by infidels.
but leftists will tolerate the mutilation and rape of little girls.
Sounds to me that the Brits are VERY INTOLERANT of other cultures - cultures that might see the world a bit differently than themselves.
Hopefully, as Muslims continue their takeover of the country, the Brits will get to see what being on the RECEIVING END of intolerance feels like - something they really need to experience, in order to become better people.
Why, it's a breath of fresh air to that foggy, dreary island!
Don’t let the families back in.
Time to scour the Shire.
“Multiculturalism is our strength”. Puke. One of the great communist lies of all time.
I wonder how frequently FGM is being done in the U.S. with officials especially federal officials turning a blind eye? It is also the height of hypocrisy for femenist groups who are busy fabricating campus rape stories to simply ignore the abuse of women that is commonplace among Islamic groups in the U.S.
Diversity and Multiculturalism at work!
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