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Female Genital Mutilation Increasing In The USA

Mike

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Can anyone find the words "Muslim" or "Islam" within this obviously slanted piece journalism? :roll:

When “Sarah” first told her story, she did not want to show her face or give her real name. The American-born woman underwent female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting, when she was 7 years old.

In 2015, ABC News interviewed her, obscuring her face for privacy and giving her a pseudonym.

“I remember feeling pain,” she told ABC News. “I was crying, so I was scared during it because it hurt.”

In 2016 she decided to publicly reveal herself as Mariya Taher.

“It’s definitely scary to come out with my face on camera,” Taher, 33, told ABC News. “I don’t want to be judged for having undergone female genital cutting or viewed as a victim.”

There are four types of FGM, according to the World Health Organization. They range in severity from removing parts of a woman’s genitals to infibulation (sealing closed the vaginal opening). According to the WHO, FGM complications range from bleeding and infection to problems with childbirth and increased risk of death for newborns.

The origins of FGM are unclear. Although it’s often thought of as a religious ritual, experts say the ancient practice is not officially an element of any faith. It’s done for a variety of reasons, with supporters saying it carries on tradition, protects a woman’s honor and ensures a woman’s virginity until marriage. In some places a woman may not get married unless she has undergone the procedure.

“This is something that is viewed as child abuse, and it’s something that is happening to a girl that doesn’t have the capacity yet to consent to it,” Taher said.

Mariya Taher, 33, underwent female genital cutting/mutilation when she was 7 years old.
Taher lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and she said she is “trying to work to stop the practice of female genital cutting from continuing.”

As a child, Taher underwent what is called vacation cutting, or sending a child abroad to have FGM performed. Taher was visiting relatives in Mumbai, India, with her family when her mother took her to have the procedure done.

“I remember being taken to an old-looking building and going up a flight of stairs and going into the apartment building,” Taher said. “I remember being put on the ground, and my dress was pulled up, and I remember something sharp cut me.”

FGM is occurring not just abroad. This year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that the number of women and girls who may have undergone the procedure in the past or may be at risk for undergoing the procedure in the future more than tripled in the U.S. from 2000 to 2013 and that more than 500,000 women and girls in America may be at risk in their lifetime.

“[That is] threefold higher than the last time we did a similar estimate in the ’90s and, in fact, fourfold higher in girls under the age of 18,” said Dr. Thomas Clark, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC’s division of reproductive health.

Officials from various organizations attribute the increase in the U.S. to a combination of factors, including an influx of female immigrants who were cut in their homelands, American-born women and girls sent abroad for vacation cutting and others who undergo the procedure in the U.S.

Performing FGM in the U.S. has been illegal since 1996. A 2013 federal law prohibits sending children overseas for the procedure.

Taher said her sister underwent FGM on U.S. soil.

“I remember her crying. I didn’t see her until after she got it done. At that point, I was still in the innocent area, like, ‘This is something that happens to all of us, and now it’s happened to my sister,’” she told ABC News in 2015.

Shelby Quast, the policy director of Equality Now, a legal advocacy organization that fights to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls around the world, said, “In terms of domestic policy [and awareness], there has been some work [done], but there’s still a long way to go.”

She said child protection services and educators in the U.S. need to learn how to recognize when girls are at risk for FGM.

The Massachusetts Female Genital Cutting Task Force is working on legislation at the state level to ban the practice.
Taher started Sahiyo, an organization that works to empower communities to fight FGM through education, collaboration and community engagement. She is on the Massachusetts Female Genital Cutting Task Force, which is working on legislation at the state level to ban the practice.

“The importance of having a state law is that when something happens in the state and there’s a crime that happens here, the state has a better ability to deal with it, to prosecute its residents, to deal with the health, safety and welfare of its residents,” said Katie Cintolo, an attorney on the task force.

“I wish I hadn’t undergone it, but I think because I did undergo it, I have this passion for gender violence issues, that I’m able to be in a place where I can talk about it, I can do research on it ... I have an insider’s perspective,” Taher said.

ABC News’ Luis Yordan contributed to this report.
 

cowman52

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The same ones who think sending their kid with a bomb to a cafe, to an airplane, a market, it is allah's will.

These people cannot be reasoned with, its their way or nothing.
 

Mike

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Faster horses said:
Why would a mother send a daughter to have this done. Especially one that had it done to her.

Have you ever heard the song by Hank Williams Jr. called "Family Tradition"?

Well, FGM is a "Tradition" to some of those in the uncivilized world. Just on a totally different & warped magnitude.

Why would we allow these people to assimilate in the USA? Or even visit here?

This is part of what drove the Brexit vote. Immigration craziness........................................
 

Steve

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cowman52 said:
The same ones who think sending their kid with a bomb to a cafe, to an airplane, a market, it is allah's will.

These people cannot be reasoned with, its their way or nothing.


I may be wrong, but I thought this was more of a north Africa problem then a middle eastern problem.

it seems to follow geographical, ethnic, religious, and cultural lines. (family tradition) and those are mostly in north africa countries.



in many of the middle eastern countries under dictatorships didn't seem to have a problem until recently ..
 

loomixguy

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My wife has female relatives who married Muslims while they were working in Egypt & Saudi Arabia. They not only converted from Catholicism to Islam, they both underwent FGM. The one in Saudi never had children, but the one in Egypt had a daughter, who also underwent FGM. Both are now widows, and have left their late husband's countries. Both are also under 50, and while attractive and can find a man, they can't keep him, because sex is too painful to endure, and the men want more than just eye candy. The daughter is in her upper 20's, attractive, and can't hang onto a man for the same reason.

FGM ruins lives, permanently. No wonder Hadji goes looking for some man on man or boy action when seeking pleasure. They make sure the women aren't very receptive.
 

Traveler

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loomixguy said:
My wife has female relatives who married Muslims while they were working in Egypt & Saudi Arabia. They not only converted from Catholicism to Islam, they both underwent FGM. The one in Saudi never had children, but the one in Egypt had a daughter, who also underwent FGM. Both are now widows, and have left their late husband's countries. Both are also under 50, and while attractive and can find a man, they can't keep him, because sex is too painful to endure, and the men want more than just eye candy. The daughter is in her upper 20's, attractive, and can't hang onto a man for the same reason.

FGM ruins lives, permanently. No wonder Hadji goes looking for some man on man or boy action when seeking pleasure. They make sure the women aren't very receptive.
You would think a liberal democrat wouldn't have enough business to hurt them, if they get really desperate.
 
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