Young girl’s plea: “Please help… I don’t want to be cut like my sister when we go back to Africa”

Teachers were today told they must report female genital mutilation to police as a heart-rending letter from an 11-year-old London girl whose sister was sent abroad to be cut was published by campaigners.
The letter, sent to London charity Equality Now, tells how the girl’s 12-year-old sister was subjected to the procedure by aunts at her grandmother’s home.

The letter also tells how the girl reported her fears, and what had happened to her sister, to a teacher but instead of alerting police the teacher advised the girl to contact the charity.
Efua Dorkenoo, director of Equality Now’s campaign against FGM, today said the failure to alert police was a mistake and warned that teachers and other professionals were allowing girls to remain at risk because of a mistaken belief that mutilation was a cultural practice rather than a crime.

What culture is that? Islamic culture.

"Please help… I don’t want to be cut like my sister when we go back to Africa" Jihadwatch

Western news articles about female genital mutilation
routinely assert that it is solely a cultural practice, not justified by
any religion. Yet again and again we see Muslim clerics justifying it,
and it is sanctioned in Islamic law.

"Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) (by cutting
off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but
circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr 'clitoris' [this is called khufaadh 'female circumcision'])." — 'Umdat al-Salik e4.3, translated by Mark Durie, The Third Choice, p. 64

"Islamic law permits by definition, by prophetic statement and by practice female circumcision" — Australian Imam Afroz Ali

"Please help… I don’t want to be cut like my sister when we go back to Africa," by Martin Bentham for the London Evening Standard, March 5 (thanks to Tom Sl):

Teachers were today told they must report female genital
mutilation to police as a heart-rending letter from an 11-year-old
London girl whose sister was sent abroad to be cut was published by
campaigners.

The letter, sent to London charity Equality Now, tells how the girl’s
12-year-old sister was subjected to the procedure by aunts at her
grandmother’s home in Gambia.

The girl — who tells how her sister was warned that “spirits will
come and kill her immediately” if she reported the crime — says she is
worried the same will happen to her.

The letter also tells how the girl reported her fears, and what had
happened to her sister, to a teacher but instead of alerting police the
teacher advised the girl to contact the charity.

Efua Dorkenoo, director of Equality Now’s campaign against FGM, today
said the failure to alert police was a mistake and warned that teachers
and other professionals were allowing girls to remain at risk because
of a mistaken belief that mutilation was a cultural practice rather than
a crime.

“Practising communities think that the UK doesn’t have the guts to
prevent and prosecute for FGM,” she said. “The key reasons for the lack
of prosecutions are the young age of those involved and the fact that
FGM is a hidden practice within families and affected communities.

“So, as with other forms of child abuse, teachers need to be alert
to, and report, all evidence of emotional or physical pain, missed
classes from school, or any of the other common indicators of FGM. If
they and other frontline professionals do this, we will get prosecutions
and come closer to ending this horrific abuse.”

In the letter, the girl, whose identity is being kept secret to
protect her, describes how she came to England from Gambia with her
mother, sisters and brothers in 2005 when she was six to join her father
who was studying here. It then recounts how the family was watching a
2010 programme about African culture “showing girls having their
privates cut” when her older sister started crying.

Two days later “she told my dad that she also had her private cut”.

The younger girl is now understood to be safe after the charity
contacted police. No prosecution was brought, however, because of the
difficulty of obtaining sufficient evidence. One reason is understood to
be that the perpetrators of the crime were overseas when police were
alerted. Ms Dorkenoo, whose charity estimates that there at least 24,000
girls at risk of mutilation, many of them in London, said that the
failure of the girl’s teacher to contact police directly reflected a
wider reluctance among professionals, including social workers, midwives
and others, to report mutilation or when evidence emerged that girls
were at risk.

FGM has been illegal in Britain since 1985, but no prosecutions have
been brought so far. The Met revealed recently that it had obtained
“clear evidence” of a crime in one case now under investigation, raising
hopes that the first charges could be brought soon.
The letter

8th November 2010

Director

Equality Now

6 Buckingham Street

London

WC2N 6BU

Dear Madam

My name is ******* and I am 11 years old. I and my mum, sisters and
brother came to England in 2005 when I had just turned 6 years old to
join my dad who was at University. We come from Gambia in West Africa.

Three weeks ago we were watching a TV programme on African culture
and as they were showing girls having their privates cut, my older
sister who is 12 years old started crying. After 2 days she told my dad
that she also had her private cut. Mum and Dad never knew about it and
she was told if she ever tells anyone the sprits will come and kill her
immediately. She said it was done one weekend by my aunties at my nans
house. Last Friday mum took her to our GPto have her checked and the
doctor said it was done to her.

This morning when I went to school I told one of my teachers about it
and together we went on the computer and found your group. The teacher
asked me to write to you and ask for your help. I don’t want my private
cut by anyone.

My dad loves us very much and he did not like what they done to my
sister and he is very confussed. We should be going back to Gambia any
time after Eid and he is worried and upset that they would do the same
to me. I don’t what that too.

If you reply to this letter I will showe my dad and I am shore that
he would be very glad to have your help. He is my best friend and if he
knows what to do he would do it, he would not want anything to hurt us –
I know that.

Please madam help me, and my dad. If you reply soon he would
definately contact you if you can help. I really hope you can help me,
not to have my private cut. I am reallye confused expessically seeing my
dad so un-happy and not knowing what to do.

Thank you very much for reading my letter.

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TB

11 years ago

FAKE, FAKE, FAKE. Typical forged argument in an asylum case using the children to try and gain permanent residency. Its the parents who decide to GM their children so the parents would hardly be “shocked” as the letter states. In a genuine GM case where there is risk that children will be mutilated, the parents should be deported and the child kept behind. These parents don’t stop their activities in England but commit the same GM in black market African procedures.
Clearly these African Muslims are using the children as a pawn.

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UbinBUSHwhacked

11 years ago

Once again the British authorities refuse to helps these little girls. What a sick society Brits have fostered. A simple law: All underage girls must be examined immediately by an independent medical association, that has no Muslims, or former female Muslims, to verify a girl’s hymen is in place. It should be documented, and verified EVERY year until she is 18-21? If it is not, the parents are brought up on charges of FGM of a minor. And Jail time would be guaranteed.
But instead the Brits continue to ignore this crime or pass the buck to others. Sick SOBs.

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sheik yer'mami

11 years ago

I’m with you, TB. If this was the criteria that entitles females from Africa or Islamistan to seek refuge we would have to accommodate more than a billion in the west.
They need to sort that out among themselves, its not our problem.

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Walter Sieruk

11 years ago

The cruel and heartless Islamic mindset is exposed in the book THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO ISLAM the author Robert Spencer wrote “An Islamic legal manual states that circumcision is required ‘ for both men and women.’ To Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the grand sheikh of al-Azhar female circumicism is ‘a laudable practice that [does] honor to womwn.’ As the grand imams of al-Azhar … is the highst spirital authority for nealy a billion Sunni Muslims.” What a brutal,vicious, and warped way of thinking in the minds of men Islam produces.

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