Posted on 05/25/2017 9:29:35 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Opposition from some members of Minnesota’s immigrant and refugee communities is slowing the momentum of a bill that would impose stiff penalties for parents involved in cases of female genital mutilation.
Since the bill’s near-unanimous passage in the Minnesota House this week, some longtime critics of the ritual have met with senators, lobbied the governor’s office and handed out fliers — all to raise alarm about the legislation.
The Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage, a nonprofit called Isuroon and other groups argue that the legislation carries overly harsh punishment and unintended consequences, including the possibility that newcomers from countries where genital cutting is widespread would not seek medical care and other services for their children. They call for a less punitive approach focused on educating parents.
Now, the author of the Senate version is voicing second thoughts about approving the legislation yet this session, though Senate GOP leadership have not committed to a course of action. “We all agree this practice is absolutely horrible, and something needs to be done,” said the author, Sen. Karin Housley. “How can we empower communities to address this practice from within rather than having Big Brother come down and say, ‘This is wrong?’ ”
(Excerpt) Read more at m.startribune.com ...
Anyone opposed to stopping female genital mutilation needs to be removed from the country.
Send these "immigrant" and "refugee" "communities" back to Trashcanistan where they came from. Every. Single. One. They do not belong in America. They bring nothing of value to America. Their existence in America serves only to damage, degrade, or destroy America. We must get rid of them, and quit bringing in their kind.
After reading the objections in the article, perhaps we should rewrite customs policy so that NO parents who have had this done to their child may immigrate, that would discourage it even more.
This one is stuck on stupid. Just kick their sorry carcasses out of our country. They bring nothing of value to us.
Bailiff, Wack his peepe !
Classic
Too bad so sad
Turf world immigrants legal or otherwise need to assimilate or go back home
Empower communities? Or protect women? Where is Big Sister in this matter? Why aren't feminists saying "This is Wrong?"
Next we will need a bill against Beheading!
And there will be great opposition!
State Senator Twit forgets that this is battery. No excuses. Cut off ‘the tip’ of any father who does this to his daughter. F cultural sensitivity. F islamobutchery. F the bastards who would stop this legislation.
I seem to remember reading some ancient history where a tactic was to send in diseased animals or people to an enemy’s encampment, and wait.
Boy those Islamists, they sure want to meld into the fabric of our nation don’t they.
Someone is having a hard time coming down on the right side of this one? Genital mutilation is okay if a cult says it is? Really?
Islam is not a religion. It’s a cult. Beheadings, suicide bombings, stoning rape victims, forcing single digit aged children into marriage, death to the infadels... that’s a religion? LOL
Some folks are so intellectually challenged.
Why not?
Big Brother is already regulating how many watts our light bulbs can have and how much water our toilets can flush with.
This barbaric practice needs to stop IMMEDIATELY and it's NOT *Big Brother* to stop the mutilation of children.
I can't help but wonder where the anti-circumcision posse is, the ones who scream in outrage about boys getting circumcised.
Really?
What the hell do you care the immigrants mutilate their women? They can do whatever they want to their women as far as I’m concerned. They aren’t trying to mutilate American women!
“I seem to remember reading some ancient history where a tactic was to send in diseased animals or people to an enemy’s encampment, and wait.”
I do remember reading about catapults being the delivery system.
“What the hell do you care the immigrants mutilate their women?”
OUR doctors do it FOR them.
The American taxpayer is literally being forced to fund their own suicide.
So what? If he goes to jail, who cares. 50% of the so-called doctors in the US are mindless greed driven hacks anyway.
Feh.
"Cult" is just a code-word for "religion that I don't like".
Islam is a comprehensive, aggressive, expansionist, utterly totalitarian ideology governing in detail all aspects of human life and human interaction. It covers far more than just religion; it also commandeers government, commerce, friendship, and family life. No authority can exist aside from it, and NOTHING can be outside of its complete domination. Islam is far worse than such ideologies as communism and national socialism.
We must destroy islam. We have not other choice.
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