Female circumcision: a tradition steeped in blood

by LotusFlower | June 26, 2008 at 02:41 pm | 228 views | 3 comments

Female Circumcision in ISLAM - many girls bleed to death

Culturally sensitive or not this practice has to be controlled as does the practice of 'forced marriage' and so called honour killings.

Police are to stage high-profile checks on flights to a number of African states in an attempt to stop young girls being taken abroad to be forcibly mutilated with the consent of their parents.

Research commissioned by the Department of Health suggests that more than 20,000 British girls are at risk of being forced into the agonising procedure, where all or part of their external genitals are cut off and stitched up. Officers will question all adults taking girls on certain flights, believing it is their best chance of saving thousands of children from female genital mutilation at the hands of tribal "elders" called in by their own families.

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Beaulieu

at 16:34 on June 26th, 2008

good stuff:

LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Beaulieu

at 16:38 on June 26th, 2008

Do we hear of countries boycotting these countries ? It is odd how in womens' mags, this subject is rarely mentioned and they don't persist in helping women to stop it.. they keep going on about Paris Hilton and those non-entities instead of concentrating on what is important to us.