Garissa school kids on holiday unaware of looming FGM cut

[anoo kale]

As schoolchildren start the Christmas holidays, many parents in Garissa are plotting ways to have them undergo FGM.

This is despite knowing well the law prohibits Female Genital Mutilation. However, the parents organise to have the girls undergo the cut in secrecy.

https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2017/Nov/145451/garissa_school_kids_on_holiday_unaware_of_looming_fgm_cut.aspx

 

 

• Statistically, the Somali community has the highest rates of FGM in the world. About 95 per cent of girls between the ages of four and 11 undergo FGM, according to Unicef.

 

• Zahara Hashi, a nurse at Simaho, said at least three cases of retained menstruation, formation of cyst and delayed delivery are reported at the facility every week. These conditions lead to fistula and may cause permanent disability.

 

• Some of the women have since been divorced for sexually underperforming.

 

How come no headway is being made among Somali people, what makes this practice so persistent and difficult to eradicate in this community? A friend of mine's wife took her daughter to Africa just this year to undergo this ritual. I was shocked because they were relatively educated. 

 

 

 

 

[Libaax-Sankataabte]

It takes generations to change cultural practices.  But many Somalis feel the whole anti-FGM campaign has become more of NGO project used by some to achieve fame and financial goals. 

[Holac]

Khloe Kardashian.  This is the new trend the West is promoting.

 

[anoo kale]

1 hour ago, Libaax-Sankataabte said:

It takes generations to change cultural practices.  But many Somalis feel the whole anti-FGM campaign has become more of NGO project used by some to achieve fame and financial goals. 

 

Typical!

 

They are more worried about image and who is making money off NGOs rather than the lives of the kids destroyed in the process.

 

Nobody keeps a taboo alive as well as maryooley.

 

 

 

 

[anoo kale]

Holac, are you equating FGM and genital piercing ?

[Holac]

Anook, I am against any kind of mutilation including designer ones. 

[anoo kale]

8 minutes ago, Holac said:

I am against any kind of mutilation including designer ones. 

 

You can't tell an adult what to do with their body, they don't need consent from you or any one else and it not harmful in any case just an expression of their individuality.

 

However forcing young children without their consent to undergo painful and dangerous FGM operations that cause sexual dysfunction and problems during birth is completely different matter, it is immoral and sick, the civilized world and the UN banned this ugly practice for a reason.

 

 

 

 

[Holac]

Anook, do you think that boys should be circumcised?

 

By the way,  designer piercing and FGM are in the same category in the UK.  What is wrong with the "civilized world" saxib? 

 

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Women with vaginal piercings will now be classed as victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), under UK's new NHS rules

 

 

[anoo kale]

Look, some one is trying to use Russian dezinformatsiya tactics on SOL. 

 

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A Department of Health spokesperson said: 'While there are challenges in this area and adult women may have genital piercings, in some communities girls are forced to have them. The World Health Organisation has quite rightly defined this as a form of FGM.

 

There you go, stop trying to muddy waters waryaa. They were referring to forced instances of genital piercing not adults doing it on their own. Why are you trying so hard to defend FGM ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Holac]

Anook, you didn't get it. Read it again!

 

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But under a directive which follows the World Health Organisation's (WHO) definition of FGM, the term also applies to any women who has consented to having her clitoris or labia pierced for fashion or sexual reasons, meaning medical professionals will be obliged to record such adornments as such.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/18/vaginal-piercings-classed-fgm-new-nhs-guidelines_n_6892376.html

 

 

 

And yes, UK women mounted complaints similar to yours. 

 

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"How dare anybody tell me how I’m ‘allowed’ to decorate my own body? I got a clitoris ring purely because I think they look pretty - the same reason I got the piercings in my ears when I was 10, but this time without the need for my mother’s consent, because I’m a grown woman."Are they imposing similar guidelines regarding genital piercings on men? Or is it only women who are deemed incapable of taking responsibility for their own bodies?"

 

 

 

 

Saxib, I am not defending anything. I don't have any daughters and I will not talk about my sisters or mother. All I am trying to point out is that these long-held cultural issues are much more nuanced than your black and white paintbrush. 

[anoo kale]

18 minutes ago, Holac said:

Saxib, I am not defending anything. I don't have any daughters and I will not talk about my sisters or mother. All I am trying to point out is that these long-held cultural issues are much more nuanced than your black and white paintbrush. 

 

There is nothing nuanced about this terrible practice of FGM, its as black and white as you can get, its a health risk and an infringement on the rights of the child.

 

 I have read the article and your whataboutery nonsense is hereby dismissed unceremoniously.

[Holac]

^

 

Maturity saxib. We are just having a conversation you initiated. 

[anoo kale]

I don't even believe your a real person but a bot. 

 

Damn these bots are getting advanced.

 

A SL supporting bot at that. 

 

 

[Holac]

 

anookale, why did you ignore my question about boy circumcision? I would like to hear your opinion. 

 

 

[anoo kale]

This is what it's like to pee after female genital mutilation

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36101342

 

This is one of the articles that opened my eyes to the terrible practice of FGM. 

 

I challenge you to read it and come back to us with you equivocating whatabouttery.