More Than 500,000 in U.S. at Risk for Female Genital Mutilation, Feds Say

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new study that roughly half a million women and girls now living in the United States are at risk of facing genital mutilation — or already have.

Some of these females are cut in the United States, while others are sent to overseas locations for the procedure.

But fact is: FGM is ongoing in the United States.

It’s not a remote thing.

And it’s both brutal and barbaric:

From Breitbart:

[On this] International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, … U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and other U.S. agencies are calling on the “global community” for an end to this abuse.

In the United States, FGM/C is a serious crime and officials have prosecuted individuals who performed the procedure.

FGM/C is also a form of child abuse.

Those who engage in this criminal procedure can be convicted and serve prison time. There are also immigration consequences.

Last April, three people in Michigan were charged in connection with the crime. Breitbart News reported that Dr. Fakhruddin Attar and his wife Farida Attar was arrested in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Michigan. Dr. Jumana Nagarwala was arrested the week before. The arrests represented the first prosecution of FGM/C in the U.S.

The list of Attar’s victims began after two seven-year-old Minnesota girls were brought across state lines to have the mutilating procedure done at Attar’s Burhani Medical Clinic.

As reported by Breitbart News, the:

practice [is] common primarily in Muslim countries, particularly those in Africa. For example, UNICEF estimates that 98% of Somali girls and 87% of Egyptians have endured the procedure.

Last July, a female genital mutilation probe widened to Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York and more arrests and indictments were expected. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward, a prosecutor in the Attar case, told the Detroit News in June that she estimated that there were at least 100 victims of the Muslim mutilation ring over the last 12 years. Breitbart News and the Detroit News reported that the number was underestimated. At least one other person was investigated in New York City for involvement in the conspiracy.

Breitbart News reported that the CDC estimated in 2016 that the number of women and girls in the U.S. who are “at risk of or may have been subjected” to FMG/C was up three-times the amount over the past decades.

Last year, the state of Texas took aim at FGM by passing legislation that provides for the prosecution of individuals who transport girls within or out of the state to undergo the procedure, as reported by Breitbart Texas at the time. The state already has a ban on the procedure.

The issue of FGM/C has been a sensitive and politically-loaded one. Last year, Breitbart News reported that The New York Times used the term in May – an apparent reversal from an editor’s position the week before that the paper would not use the “culturally loaded” term.

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Kalambong Kalambong

6 years ago

None of those 500,000 should have been in the United States of America in the first place

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

Send them back to where they came from, it is a waste of money to try educating vegetation.

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Achmed Mohammedan

6 years ago

There was some type of hijab day. Next up, “Chop a Clit Week”, featured speaker, Linda Cockroach.

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Tm.

6 years ago

I feel very sad and actually nauseated after reading this article. Where does such
savagery against women hail from? Why would anyone do something like this? Anyone who is not shocked should read various sites, and try to understand what the procedure entails. Is not the clitoris a sensitive, erectile structure of the female genital anatomy? So this would be parallel to cutting off a man’s penis.
I also read that oftentimes part of the labia majora and minora are cut away, infibulation, or the area sewn with a tiny opening left to urinate? What is the message here? Women should not experience pleasure during sex? To me, this cutting away seems very extensive and involved, I imagine girls may be left with scarring, pain, disfigurement, infection, death. Make no mistake, this was not “wiping” like those doctors stated. Their licenses should be indefinitely revoked. They should not practice in America.
This activity is not to be allowed in the west. This is a high crime, imagine if people were cutting off men’s genitalia. Anyone guilty of this barbaric crime should be deported, no excuses, or jailed for no less than thirty years or more.
I personally will no longer buy products from countries that do this.

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shar501

6 years ago

Reply to  Tm.

It hails from the “prophets” inability to get it up. Why else victimize little girls? Subjugating women by forcing them to cover everything except their eyes was his only way of compensating for his own impotency. Otherwise he would constantly be faced with the realization that he was a puny fraud.

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Moshe

6 years ago

500 000 young girls, out of 3 million Muslims? How does that add up? Could it be that their number in the US is much greater?

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NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater

6 years ago

Soon to be in Canada thanks to our POS slime minister.

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R. Arandas

6 years ago

Thank God for Ayaan Hirsi Ali for enlightening us to this horrific and brutal practice!

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iprazhm

6 years ago

This is heinous. The three branches of the crime syndicate known as the federal government use the full violent force of their immoral police to guarantee that leftists freely butcher infants inside and outside the womb for their body parts, homosexual deviants and muslims butcher little boys and girls latter in their young lives to rob them of their sexuality and ability to bear children. For no other reason than to satisfy their own psychopathic desires.
May God deliver us from the pure black evil hearts that rule our nation with an iron fist.

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Tm.

6 years ago

And we are told Jesus said, “Get thee behind me, Satan.”

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