[ April 23, 2024 ]
Female genital mutilation, as barbaric and savage as it is, still goes forth with alarming frequency even in these modern times.
The question is: Why?
One would think with so much advancement of civilization in societies around the world, the practice would be halted. But it’s not. It hasn’t.
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Conservative Woman has some thoughts:
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a barbaric tribal custom emanating from parts of the Islamic world, notably portions of Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and Indonesia. It has been illegal in this country for 33 years. The person who does the cutting commits a crime, as does a parent or anyone else who arranges for it; so also a parent who fails to take reasonable means to stop it happening to a girl under 16, and a person resident here who arranges for it to be done abroad (normally on a ‘holiday’ conveniently taken in a country where the practice is common). A doctor or teacher who fails to pass on information about it also commits an offence.
There are certainly plenty of cases where GPs and hospitals in this country have been faced with women who have been cut: more than 9,000 in 2016-17. Yet, while occasionally professional sanctions have been applied (a dentist in 2013 and and a doctor in 2014 were struck off for offering FGM as a result of newspaper stings), not one successful prosecution has taken place. Four have been attempted. All were doubtful to begin with. One was of a doctor in 2015 whose action was arguably part of making good after a very difficult delivery of a baby; in the same year a father in the course of a bitter family dispute chose to accuse the mother of FGM. She was acquitted. The third, in Bristol earlier this year, involved an alleged confession during a ten-minute taxi-ride and a 2mm lesion which was not unequivocally incriminating; the judge stopped the case. The last, ending in acquittal last week, involved an allegation by the daughter of a London solicitor that he had forced her to undergo FGM twice as a punishment for theft.
Why is this? In partial defence of the Crown Prosecution Service, it faces some noticeable difficulties. If, as often happens, the victim prefers not to testify against her parents it can be hard to nail a charge against either: even where FGM is proved, a stolid denial by both of any knowledge as to how it happened is likely to prevail unless there is smoking gun evidence of, say, payment to a known cutter (the going rate is said to be about £200), or travel abroad and contacts with those known to carry out the operation. Even if the CPS charges failure to take reasonable steps to prevent FGM, this again raises difficulties. No parent can be expected to supervise a child at all times or control all her movements; it is too easy for either parent, tasked with evidence of FGM, to say that it must have happened a year or so ago when the child was in the care of an apparently trustworthy grandparent, aunt, etc.But one is left with a powerful feeling that, however comforting for police and prosecutors, this is not the whole story. We have no details of allegations the CPS has decided not to pursue, but there must be strong suspicions (as already pointed out on TCW here and here) that even where the evidence is fairly convincing, concerns for social cohesion and worries about antagonising particular racial groups are playing a disproportionate part. Nor have we any indication that, for example, steps are taken by the police to identify those who might be prepared to carry out the operation and to keep a watch on them, in the same way as the police would treat suspected drug dealers or (say) back-street abortionists.
Furthermore, one suspects that even though medical professionals are now bound by law to report suspected cases of FGM, the profession may not be 100 per cent behind this. The requirement is carefully circumscribed: doctors must report where either the victim tells them she has been cut, or where they observe physical signs of it. The General Medical Council points out, correctly but one suspects more with the wisdom of the serpent than the innocence of the dove, that no such duty arises where a doctor suspects but has not visually identified FGM. In other words, it condones a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy: if a doctor isn’t required to examine the affected parts and the patient hasn’t actually alleged FGM, then however suspicious the circumstances he isn’t required to check. Even if the patient is from a high-risk group (for example Somali) he can sanctimoniously look away. It is not unlikely that a sizeable number do just that.
What we need is more overt determination to stamp out FGM. Risking offence to vociferous representatives of particular ethnic groups, and occasionally soured relations within a family, is something the police and the CPS must be prepared to do. In certain cases they must be prepared to follow their own guidelines and require the attendance of victims as witnesses, particularly where there are several victims in one family.
A couple of changes in the law might also help. One would be a provision that, even if there is no present risk to a child, notice by a doctor to the police or social services about suspicions of past FGM would break no duties of confidentiality. This is not absolutely certain at the moment, and confirming it might give a virtuous incentive. The other would be a new offence committed by a parent who had reason to know that a child had suffered FGM but failed to report it to the police. At least with younger children, reason to know would be difficult to deny. And, for a parent who when questioned about FGM says righteously (as so many do) that they themselves wholly disapprove of it and wouldn’t dream of arranging for it, they can hardly complain. The criminal law would merely be asking them to back up their stated disapproval by helping the police when someone else has committed this revolting practice on their own offspring.
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19 Comments
6 years ago
The way England is going……………it will be available under the NHS soon.
it may well be mandatory in the next 20 years as well!
6 years ago
United Kingdom .. One new Islamic Female Genital Mutilation reported ‘every hour’ .
Plus the Islamic FGM that is not reported…. Islamic Female Genital Mutilation also can include removal.
Where are the protests by the feminists with their Pink P. hats?
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
The VAST majority of the times .. it IS complete removal. Old moslem spiritual: “Gonna jump down, turn around, chop out a clitoris. Gonna jump down, turn around, chop a clit today. Oh alley, chop out a clitoris. Oh … alley, chop a clit a day.
6 years ago
The failure on behalf of feminist groups to devote adequate attention to the Muslim rape epidemic and Islamic Female Genital Mutilation unveils the true face of what characterizes third wave feminism – rampant hypocrisy and an agenda to downplay and dismiss genuine women’s rights issues that don’t fit into their warped paradigm
6 years ago
Every feminist and female member of parliament should have to submit to this subhuman procedure, publicly.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Do you really believe that or is it more that they are hell-bent on appeasing them in line with the PC laws?
6 years ago
No need to ask the question!
Of course it is to appease the sadistic Muslims!
6 years ago
I see absolutely no point in dancing on the heads of legal pins over this issue, the child victims are minors, therefore what happens to them must be laid at the door of those in charge at the time the offence was committed.
When the charge is laid, the adults have to prove their innocence, if not, automatic expulsion from Britain no appeal. When the revenue think you’ve cheated on your tax bill and under declared earnings, you’re guilty until you prove you’re not.
The only way to make these savages conform to western standards is to make them fear the consequences if they don’t.
6 years ago
The article states that ‘CPS’ in this case is Crown Prosecution Service, to wit this would be once-Great Britain. I thought, before I read the article, that it was Child Protective Services. Where it is not only girls where “the system” is failing them big-time, but children in general. People have become too afraid to speak out about the mass transgenderization of our children – and the barbaric practice of reassignment surgery which is also irreversible and extremely harmful – for fear of being labeled as “homophobic” or even “transphobic.” And LGBT supremacist “leadership” has been every bit as successful as Muslim supremacists in infiltrating every last institution in this country and all through the West, and appeasement of these groups is every bit as despicable and insidious as appeasement of Islamists.
6 years ago
From what we see here these people are the subject of all the articles. Maybe something is wrong here when we let them dominate this country. Why is it that no one is aware that they do not belong in a decent society. They should be pushed back to the holes they came from.
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6 years ago
To the Leftist Women’s Movement—- “You’ve come a long way, Baby.”
6 years ago
If they were mutilating say a finger for example what would be the reaction to that?
6 years ago
Appeasement is just seen as approval by the Muslim community, if there is not clear and publicised punishment they will continue to do it. The authorities are in fact encouraging the practice instead of stopping it. It also shows clearly if any further demonstration was needed that Muslims have absolutely no intention of obeying the laws of Western countries unless they are forced to, they follow their own laws.
It is the same with rapes if they just get fines or a short spell in jail it just encourages them and others to continue doing it.
6 years ago
Tim Burton(then of Liberty GB)who was jailed in 2017 for criticising Fiyuz Mughal of Tell Mama believes,along with his barrister that the Crown Prosecution Service is corrupted beyond measure by islam and that there is a strong bias in the justice system towards muslim complainants and against non-muslim defendants.His barrister was of the opinion that nothing short of a revolution combined with a root and branch overhaul of the justice system will achieve meaningful results!
6 years ago
Hey Taxpayer,
Still trying to make sense of this sh*t are ya?
6 years ago
If only whores need a clitoris only rapists need a penis. Religionists and Rapists, same difference!
6 years ago
So sickening in its depravity and subjugation of women, I had never even heard of this practice until just a few years ago, but considering these heathens do abominable things to cloven footers it came as no surprise.
