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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: circumcision; genitalmutilation; islam; kurds
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To: FormerLib

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

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

He had a gay little pecker.


41 posted on 01/10/2009 6:34:08 PM PST by SisterK (pop culture is the opiate of the people)
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To: backhoe; Chode

If I had to guess I’d say those hollow reeds are inserted after cutting to make sure everything doesn’t totally fuse when healing to allow meunstral flow in the future.


42 posted on 01/10/2009 7:10:19 PM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: AppyPappy
As a matter of fact, Muslim men prefer dry sex.

Guess it's hard to get those goats and camels excited.

43 posted on 01/10/2009 7:12:49 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: org.whodat
I really doubt it is anywhere near the numbers given

You are wrong.

44 posted on 01/10/2009 7:16:46 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Neidermeyer; Chode
Chode, see #42:

If I had to guess I’d say those hollow reeds are inserted after cutting to make sure everything doesn’t totally fuse when healing to allow meunstral flow in the future.

Aggh! I'm afraid you are right.

Hadn't thought of that.

Son of a Bitch!

45 posted on 01/11/2009 12:59:18 AM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: Neidermeyer; backhoe
ah yes, a politically correct, organically grown, drain tube...
46 posted on 01/11/2009 8:14:52 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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To: AppyPappy

You just made me cringe.... and you know this how?


47 posted on 01/11/2009 9:50:41 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: DJ Taylor

You may use the clinical term but, in fact, many of the girls are, in fact, mutilated. The clitoris is very infrequently excised in a sterile or clinical environment and there is often damage done beyond even the intent of these barbarians.

As for your “for crying out loud” statement, are you implying that I do not think this is diabolical and horrific? Come on. I call it what is IS. I will not use a benign medical term.


48 posted on 01/11/2009 9:52:51 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: SisterK

As vulgar as this comment was, I really think you are on to something now.


49 posted on 01/11/2009 9:53:40 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: Bushwacker777
"We don't know why we do it

A mother was instructing her daughter how to prepare a pot roast dinner.

The mother’s first instruction was “we start by cutting off the ends of the roast”. The daughter accepted the instruction but asked her mother, “Why do we cut off the ends of the roast”? A puzzled look came over the mother’s face as she pondered her daughter’s question. “I don’t really know why” she finally answered, “that is how my mother taught me”.

The daughter remained curious and suggested they call her grandmother and ask why. They called the grandmother only to get the answer, “I don’t really know why, that is how my mother taught me.

Not satisfied the daughter suggested they phone her great grandmother at her assisted living facility and ask her why. The nurse at the facility brought the grandmother to the phone and the daughter asked, “great grandmother, why did you teach my grandmother to cut the ends off the roast before cooking?” Without hesitation great grandmother answered, “So the roast will fit in the pot”.

50 posted on 01/11/2009 10:55:02 AM PST by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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