Girls flee circumcision in Kenya

BBC ^ | 05 Dec 2008 | BBC

[driftdiver]

No wisdom, just frustration and contempt for those who continue to overlook this.

[beethovenfan]

Has Obama had this performed on Michelle? Just asking.

[driftdiver]

Well she does usually look pretty angry.

[SmokingJoe]

Obama’s Kenyan wing of the family in action?

[DustyMoment]

It is disgustingly ironic that muslims call us “savage” and “barbarian”. It would seem that they haven’t looked in a mirror in a VERY long time.

In the meantime, where are the feminists, NOW and Code Pink to protest this savagery? I guess only white, American men qualify as “brutes” in THEIR world.

[Upstate NY Guy]

The man on the right, Raila Odinga, sought power in Kenya by making a pact with Muslims to impose strict sharia law if elected president.
The man on the left went to Kenya in 2006, at taxpayer expense, to campaign for Odinga.

When Odinga lost the election his supporters took to the streets and rioted:
Christians were pulled out of their cars and killed if they were of the wrong religion. Their homes and businesses were burned. Young girls were gang-raped in front of their parents and siblings. Men were ‘circumcised’ with machetes while captive crowds were forced to watch. Limbs were hacked off, both men and women were sexually mutilated in the streets and left to die.

It is estimated 1,500 died. The result was the exodus of 150,000 people from their homes. An attempt to purify Muslim/Luo areas and establish control.
The source of the above in italics:
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/10/raila-odinga-obama-campaigned-for-odinga-violence-after-loss/

FGM, or female genital mulitation, has a long history in African Islamic society. Why would Barack Hussien Obama support a man who supports such a system unless he is also a true beliver in Islam?

[libstripper]

Am I understanding this practice for what it is? It’s actually closer to mutilation than the conventional practice for male children, isn’t it?

It definitely is. The late Robert Ruark wrote a great book about the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya some time n the 1950s, Something of Value, where he described female circumcision. At least the clitoris and the outer lips are removed, without benefit of either anesthetic or sanitation. A young woman subjected to the practice loses most of her outer genitalia and runs a great risk of serious infection.

[JillValentine]

[LadyPilgrim]

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[Paved Paradise]

Um. Me too.