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For Kurdish Girls, a Painful Ancient Ritual
The Washington Post ^ | Dec. 29, 2008 | Amit R. Paley

Posted on 01/10/2009 2:33:46 PM PST by Bushwacker777

"Sheelan Anwar Omer, a shy 7-year-old Kurdish girl, bounded into her neighbor's house with an ear-to-ear smile, looking for the party her mother had promised.

There was no celebration. Instead, a local woman quickly locked a rusty red door behind Sheelan, who looked bewildered when her mother ordered the girl to remove her underpants. Sheelan began to whimper, then tremble, while the women pushed apart her legs and a midwife raised a stainless-steel razor blade in the air. "I do this in the name of Allah!" she intoned.

As the midwife sliced off part of Sheelan's genitals, the girl let out a high-pitched wail heard throughout the neighborhood. As she carried the sobbing child back home, Sheelan's mother smiled with pride."

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KEYWORDS: circumcision; genitalmutilation; islam; kurds
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To: Bushwacker777

pure child abuse


21 posted on 01/10/2009 3:29:17 PM PST by GeronL (intermitten freeper)
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To: backhoe
ok... the brown thing on the left and, the sticks on the right do, what???
22 posted on 01/10/2009 3:32:34 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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To: Bushwacker777

This is NOT circumcision. I repeat: This is NOT circumcision. The correct term is genital mutilation. The Times should be ashamed of themselves.


23 posted on 01/10/2009 3:35:10 PM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: Bushwacker777

Oops - I said Times - it’s the Wash Post!!! They should be ashamed.


24 posted on 01/10/2009 3:35:34 PM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: Bushwacker777

I’ve read that Egyptians are into it. Also, not all Kurds are Muslim; I hope most aren’t.


25 posted on 01/10/2009 3:36:43 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: marktwain
This link seems to indicate it is a considerable problem in much of the Arab world:

This subject came up a few years ago, and there were then, as now, certain peculiar people who, for reasons probably best kept private, went out of their way to try to exonerate moslems from this cultural atrocity. Back then the moslem apologists tried to say it was "only the Africans" who did this. Guess the Kurds live in Africa now.

Go figure.

26 posted on 01/10/2009 3:37:13 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: LeoWindhorse
why to moslem women put up with this brutal cult that dominates their lives ?

Why to English speakers fail badsy with this hard-o lingo that mess up they texty yo?

27 posted on 01/10/2009 3:37:51 PM PST by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: HighlyOpinionated

Their men must be dumdums. The more the woman enjoys it, the better for the husband. Unreal. I’ve read far too much on this subject and it just gets me all riled up each and every time. A beautiful gift given by God is destroyed by these pathetic worshippers of nothing more than a moon god.


28 posted on 01/10/2009 3:38:07 PM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: humblegunner

The only thing I can think of is so women don’t want to have sex. But still reproduce when (if) the male wants to have sex. Pure male control.

That is after moohamid gets tired of his goats and camels.

Barbarians.


29 posted on 01/10/2009 3:41:38 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale Florida)
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To: Chode
ok... the brown thing on the left and, the sticks on the right do, what?

Hey, FRiend-- just a guess? I can't account for the sticks, but I believe that pine-cone looking horror is used to force the vagina open for "trimming."

I really don't know enough foul words to accurately describe what I feel about this savagery.

30 posted on 01/10/2009 3:51:27 PM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: bicyclerepair
Can't have the woman like something, don't you know. *rolls eyes*

Argh. This article is sickening. I don't how many women are like that mother who would let her daughter be painfully mutilated, but if that woman represents the civilian population, they aren't that innocent. Sorry. I'm angry.

31 posted on 01/10/2009 3:57:44 PM PST by Vozda ("For equanimity in the face of blind hatred, I recommend Christianity." ~Ann Coulter)
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To: Paved Paradise
"The correct term is genital mutilation."

No, the correct term for the surgical procedure being practiced on these female children is clitorectomy. Let's not mince words here with such vague terms as female genital mutilation and circumcision. For crying out loud, the clitoris is being cut from these little girl's bodies.

32 posted on 01/10/2009 4:09:57 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Paved Paradise

The men don’t care. As a matter of fact, Muslim men prefer dry sex.


33 posted on 01/10/2009 4:13:30 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Bushwacker777

......just in, Gloria Steinham, Nancy Pelosi and the NOW are issuing a statement denouncing the practice of female circumcision......(crickets)


34 posted on 01/10/2009 4:28:31 PM PST by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: pandoraou812

***Barbaric people! To do this to a little girl is terrible.***

Now, now. We must not judge other cultures. After all, their cultural traditions are just as good as ours. One Week of remedial DIVERSITY TRAINING for you!

Bad Boy! go stand in the corner of a round room!

Ok, Sarc/off


35 posted on 01/10/2009 4:47:16 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (14. Guns only have two enemies: rust and politicians.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Bad Boy! go stand in the corner of a round room!

Don't you mean bad girl lol? I don't care what these barbaric people believe in. A mother who would do this to her daughter is a monster. It is being done right in this country too. The girls can have health problems for life or even die .

36 posted on 01/10/2009 4:54:49 PM PST by pandoraou812 (Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn! ...........^............)
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To: backhoe
just damn...
37 posted on 01/10/2009 5:00:56 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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To: Bushwacker777

Why does Islam hate and fear women’s sexual pleasure?

Did Mohamed have a little pecker? That would explain volumes.


38 posted on 01/10/2009 5:07:40 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: Bushwacker777

What does the Human Rights Campaign have to say about this barbarism?


39 posted on 01/10/2009 6:03:40 PM PST by informavoracious
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To: little jeremiah

“Also, not all Kurds are Muslim; I hope most aren’t.”

Correct. There are also many Christian Kurds.

Regardless. This is a barbaric practice.


40 posted on 01/10/2009 6:29:12 PM PST by SisterK (pop culture is the opiate of the people)
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