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UK: More than 1,000 FGM cases in just three months

Sep 25, 2015 1:31 pm By Robert Spencer

1,000 cases in three months means roughly eleven cases a day. Why is this so widespread, since our moral superiors constantly insist that it has nothing to do with Islam? The answer is that FGM is sanctioned by 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

FGM

“NHS Records More Than 1,000 FGM Cases In Just Three Months,” by Sarah Ann Harris, The Huffington Post UK, September 23, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

More than 1,000 cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) were recorded in just three months in the UK, it has been revealed.

For the quarter April to June this year, there were 1,036 newly-recorded cases of FGM in England, with a total of 1,159 attendances for FGM, according to the Press Association.

Nine of the individuals were aged under 18 when they were first seen, the data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) revealed.

The shocking figures have been made public after the health service began recording incidences of FGM for the very first time.

Much of the FGM reported may be historic, as the abuse is normally carried out on infants and young teenagers. The NHS data did not specify whether it was carried out in the UK or abroad, as is the case in many instances of FGM.

Tanya Barron, chief executive of global children’s charity Plan UK, which works to combat FGM worldwide, said: “It’s shocking to see the extent of FGM here in the UK.

“We’ve seen hugely increased attention on this problem in the past few years and we are now waking up to the scale of this terrible practice.

“What we must always keep in mind though is that this is not specifically a British problem.

“FGM is a practice with an inherently global dimension.

“And while it’s vital that we do everything we can to stop FGM here in the UK, as well as to support the girls and women affected by it, the reality is that this practice won’t end in the UK until it is ended worldwide.”

FGM is illegal in the UK. It is also illegal to take a female abroad for the purposes of FGM.

The maximum jail term for carrying out or enabling FGM is 14 years.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), FGM is carried out for social and religious reasons and is an “extreme form of discrimination against women”.

Babies born to women who have undergone FGM suffer a higher rate of death compared with those born to women who have not undergone the procedure.

Women with FGM also have increased risk of stillbirth, infants that need resuscitation and low birth weight babies.

FGM is estimated to lead to an extra one or two baby deaths per 100 deliveries worldwide.

An estimated 130 million women and girls around the world are through to be living with FGM.

An international day of zero tolerance of FGM took place earlier this year, with a number of measures, including NHS recording, outlined to help to end the horrifying practice.

This included better training for frontline health workers on how to communicate with patients about the highly sensitive issue, allowing clinicians to note on a child’s health record if they are at risk of FGM and an additional £2million for a programme backed by Barnardos and the Local Government Association to create a specialised team of social workers.

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  1. marc says

    Sep 25, 2015 at 1:38 pm

    My sister is a homeroom teacher in what you call middle school in the UK, she can always tell which girls had their “special holiday back home”. thats why there is a spike this time of year when the kids come back, 1000 in 3 months, is gross under exaggeration.

    • Diana says

      Sep 26, 2015 at 6:58 am

      Why doesn’t she report them?

      • ECAW says

        Sep 26, 2015 at 7:03 am

        In fact aren’t she and the teachers now legally obliged to do so – or is that only for signs of radicalisation?

        • marc says

          Sep 27, 2015 at 1:10 pm

          She needs to keep her job, if she did report the parents, the accusations of racism will mean she’d never gets another job, I hear nurses and doctors that patch the broken girls up face the same dilemma.

          Yes, it’s the law they have to report them, but there has been not one successful prosecution, and it’s been illegal for 15 years. If teachers, nurses and doctors saw some action by the courts, I’m sure they would feel it was worth it.

          If an indigenous kid is being beaten or abused by parents, a teachers word would be enough to get the authorities (led by CPS and Social Services) springing into action, that system works well, so really the blame has to be placed on the CPS and Social Services. The same vermin that allowed the systematic rape and slavery of infidel children at the hands of the muslim savages.

  2. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Sep 25, 2015 at 2:11 pm

    When the Somalis showed up in Minnesota, the Fire Dept and Police Dept found themselves in Moslem living rooms answering emergency calls on an 11 yr old girls bleeding profusely from her crotch and ol’ dad holding a bloody steak knife. Problem. So, what they did was jam a few Moslems through the local medical school, set them up in offices in the medical arts buildings across from the local hospitals, and voila!, problem solved. Antiseptic clinical clit chops all day long and rumors no longer being circulated by unappreciative Infidel taxpayers, albeit they’re now paying for the quasi-legal clit chop jobs through Medicare.

    • marc says

      Sep 25, 2015 at 2:15 pm

      I guess the UK is that bit closer to backwardistan which is why they send them there.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Sep 25, 2015 at 2:31 pm

        Next time I’m in England I plan to take a day trip up to Birmingham. May as well take the full brunt, being bitch slapped in the face by History is good for a man, and what’s happened to that city is remarkable. Then I’ll drive my rental car through the Chunnel, hang a left, and head on up to Malmo. Heck, with the Million Moslem Man March just now wrapping up in Germany, I might cruise on over to Munich to witness a city in the early stages of ruination. Educational.

        • PRCS says

          Sep 25, 2015 at 10:39 pm

          Hang a left.

          Heh!

  3. Don McKellar says

    Sep 25, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    I wonder if there’s been discussion in the Obama household about this issue? Will Michelle launch another “Save Our Girls” Twitter campaign on it?

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Sep 25, 2015 at 2:35 pm

      Michelle disappoints me. When the Boko leader Shekau was confronted with the cold hearted business world fact that the girls had no market as sex slaves, they seem to have disappeared. Did he execute all 200 of them and bury them in the jungle to avoid being made a fool of on world TV?

      Instead of taking the helm on this, Michelle instead has returned to her school lunch crusade, which rumor has it has led to widespread hunger among American children attending public schools.

      • Don McKellar says

        Sep 25, 2015 at 2:56 pm

        Indeed, whatever happened to the school girls? Michelle seems to have a short attention span when things don’t come easy. Perhaps it comes from years of being married to Obama who has had the moon handed to him without merit since he was in college once he learned how to present the right mask to the leftists of influence in the world.

        • Holy Prophet APF says

          Sep 25, 2015 at 3:06 pm

          Nobody except the professors remembers him at Occidental. Nobody except the professors remembers him at Columbia. He’s the only president of Harvard Law Review to have never published. Whaddya mean “has had the moon handed to him without merit”? This guy has been working his mojo since day one.

        • mortimer says

          Sep 25, 2015 at 8:43 pm

          Michelle, why did your husband, the most powerful man in the world, fail to BRING BACK OUR GIRLS?

    • Huck Folder says

      Sep 26, 2015 at 1:46 am

      Clitter Campaign?

  4. Western Canadian says

    Sep 25, 2015 at 3:01 pm

    If you want to see pure evil, without even the tiniest trace of decency…. look at the hag on the left in the above picture… The smile on her face as a child is mutilated. Another example of the true face of islam (RTC).

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 25, 2015 at 4:03 pm

      Yeah–I noticed this as well, WC. *Ugh*.

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 26, 2015 at 1:53 am

      Good catch

      That is probably the same look the Taliban had when the murdered the schoolgirls in Pakistan.

      Muhammad’s all powerful Allah is deathly afraid of little girls with all their body parts and with an education.
      I am beginning to suspect that Muhammad was a lying scumbag.

      On a positive note: Let it go

    • Shmooviyet says

      Sep 26, 2015 at 1:34 pm

      Yes– the look on that creature’s face is grotesque and positively chilling! She seems to be quite enjoying the suffering of that child. How would progs justify the psychotic thrill so many muslims seem to get from inflicting misery and horror on other beings, if they ever spoke of it? And how this can possibly fit in in any civilization?
      Must the 72 virgins in Mo’s paradise have undergone the ‘procedure’, I wonder.

  5. Raja says

    Sep 25, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    I don’t understand the logic and the gross discrimination of Muslim society viz a viz women.

    Are the men in Muslim world so dominant that only men can indulge in sexual debauchery? FGM reveals more of male insecurity and CONFIRMS the subhuman value of women in Muslim world.

    I do not think that FGM is in anyway related to desire, lust, debauchery which comes from WITHIN ( and not related to sexual organs per se)

    I have been told of a mother daughter duo debauchery with “hot” guy in an Arab state. This shows that Muslims are no different from the rest of the world when it comes to debauchery.

    But it is pertinent to point out that Arab men, OLDER men included are very keen slave-girl (in their TEENS and YOUNGER) buyers when abroad. News about their sexual escapades in their own countries seldom see the light thanks to their closed culture and being TOO widespread to be NEWSWORTHY!!!!

  6. Tom says

    Sep 25, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    Where are the feminists? Where are the mothers and fathers of daughters in the West? The silence here is deafening. There should beat least 1 million visitors here at JW a month and hundreds of comments on a story like this. I am sickened by this. Actually, I think their silence and passive acceptance of this barbarity is the final straw with my liberal friends and relatives- Goodbye you hypocrites.

    • Paul says

      Sep 25, 2015 at 4:47 pm

      Too true, sadly. ‘Feminist’ Laurie Penny who writes for The Guardian –
      a supposed anti-racist who always evokes race – said that white Western
      men who try to tackle such things aren’t really interested in the welfare
      of females, but rather the chance to exercise “islamophobia”. Who, then,
      in her deranged little world does have the right to tackle these things?
      Certainly not ex-muslims or secular minded muslims whose demonstration
      against sharia law being in the British penal code she dismissed as “mere
      hyperbole”. How idiotic, how callous. She’s not alone. There are women who
      have strongly condemned such things like Julie Burchill and Anne Marie Waters,
      but other than them I’m really struggling to come up with any names.
      Just disgraceful

      • Paul says

        Sep 25, 2015 at 5:03 pm

        Obviously, there are a good few ex-muslim women here who
        do speak out, but my focus is upon the lack of supposed
        feminists who originate from the UK and who ought be rallying to
        their cause.

      • ECAW says

        Sep 26, 2015 at 4:30 am

        Yes, one of the main reasons for my scorn for the Guardian is their looking the other way on this issue. There will be two or three feminist articles in al-Graun per day, unearthing ever more trivial reasons to excoriate the usual enemy (white western men) while studiously ignoring the real vicious mysoginy going on in Birmingham, Rochdale and Tower Hamlets. It makes Guardian feminists look like self indulgent, condescending hypocrites whose feminist values are not universal at all.

        True, they did have a short lived campaign against FGM, stressing incorrectly that it is not Islamic but only cultural, but it was strictly splash on and forced on them by the example of other papers (and the EDL!). Here is a long and turgid diatribe detailing the background to that campaign if you have nothing better to do with your time (we get there in the end):

        https://ecawblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/the-guardian-doing-the-right-thing-eventually-2/

        • Paul says

          Sep 26, 2015 at 6:26 am

          Thanks for the link. I remember the article by Matthew Goodwin
          – “To tackle Islamophobia in Britain, we need to fight clever”.
          My God, what a dreadfully dishonest little man. Perfect for The
          Guardistan then. This article was straight after the weekend
          in which we saw the sickening terrorist attacks upon the shopping
          mall in Kenya and the attack upon a Peshawar church in Pakistan.
          The article ought to have been retitled : “Now that the true ugliness
          of islam is becoming obvious to everybody, how can we deceive the
          public better?”.

        • ECAW says

          Sep 26, 2015 at 7:00 am

          Yeah, Goodwin’s made a career out of seaching for the roots of Islamophobia, becoming a go to expert for the government on the way, without ever addressing the question “Is there actually a thing behind the word?”

          He is truly a modern day Snark hunter.

    • Huck Folder says

      Sep 26, 2015 at 1:49 am

      Here’s an arch-hypocrite from UBC, Canada: ‘prof’ Sunera Thobani.

  7. gravenimage says

    Sep 25, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    UK: More than 1,000 FGM cases in just three months

    1,000 cases in three months means roughly eleven cases a day.
    ……………………….

    And these are just the ones that come to light–the vast majority *do not*.

    The parents of any girl mutilated should be prosecuted.

    Instead, even though FGM has been specifically illegal in the UK since 2003–and certainly effectively illegal under statutes barring mutilation of children for centuries before that–there has only been *one* prosecution for FGM since then–and only after growing pressure from the public:

    “First FGM prosecution: how the case came to court”

    http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/04/first-female-genital-mutilation-prosecution-dhanuson-dharmasena-fgm

    One can argue whether this was FGM in the true sense–certainly, the case received a not guilty verdict, probably correctly.

    And notice: without Western medicine, this mutilated woman and her baby would have died–as is so common with victims of Type III FGM.

    Please note that there has *still* never been a case of prosecution of parents mutilating their daughters, nor of the practitioners of such atrocity in the UK.

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 26, 2015 at 2:01 am

      NPR still silent on this it seems.
      Yet they did freely criticize the Saudi leadership about the Muslim worshippers who were trampled at this years Hajj. Of course their criticism was politically correct by way of being indirect because they quoted Muslims (probably Arab Spring Al Qaeda supporters).

  8. Angemon says

    Sep 25, 2015 at 4:47 pm

    More than 1,000 cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) were recorded in just three months in the UK, it has been revealed.

    Keyword being “recorded”…

  9. duh_swami says

    Sep 25, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    FGM and circumcision in general is a way of letting the victim know who is in charge and who you will obey…Attacking your genitals with a knife, often as an infant, created a scar of flesh and a scar of mind…it means, slavery…

    • mortimer says

      Sep 25, 2015 at 8:50 pm

      Agree. Islam = Submission = Slaves are submitted = Islam is slavery.

  10. DeMolay says

    Sep 25, 2015 at 5:52 pm

    I saw today that polio is near wiped out globally. The only thing slowing it down was the Muslims in Africa claiming the medicine was a western plot to sterilise Muslims and wipe then out. That lie ruined so many lives and shows you the backward mentality you’re up against. In fact medics were murdered that turned up with vaccines to help.
    I honestly believe Islam is worse than nazism in many respects.

    • Effing What says

      Sep 25, 2015 at 7:11 pm

      Pakistan as well, recently saw a documentary on the issue and was bewildered by the thinking and Pakistanis are the main group in the UK undertaking fgm on their daughters, there’s a picture emerging here, sadly all the lefties choose to ignore it.

      • mortimer says

        Sep 25, 2015 at 8:52 pm

        Pakistan = Berzerkistan = Backwardistan

      • ECAW says

        Sep 26, 2015 at 3:19 am

        Effing What – Great name!

  11. Truth Seeker says

    Sep 26, 2015 at 7:27 am

    Probably FGM is the way, apart from Terrorism, for Females to get Visa to Janaah (Islam’s Paradie).

  12. Debbie says

    Sep 26, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    “More than 1000 cases,” but how many arrests and convictions?

    Zero and zero, I’m guessing.

  13. Mark says

    Sep 27, 2015 at 5:37 pm

    An example of how our leaders are made fools of by muslims doing their warfare lying into treasonous acts/things designed to hide islams teachings and mitigate or void, legal attempts to tackle the evils of islam..

    SERIOUS CRIMES BILL, HOUSE OF LORDS OF 2 MARCH 2015

    Baroness Meacher in house of lords .. goodness, we need to tackle it—at source. It is probably far too late in the day, but really it is the community and religious leaders who need to be stopped when they are preaching non-authentic Hadith and pressing for FGM on that unauthentic basis. Even at this late stage I plead with the Minister to take a step back and think whether this is the right way forward. I profoundly believe it is not. The most eminent QC in this country, Dexter Dias, who knows about these things, would say the same. Go to the community and religious leaders; do not try and deal with this after the event when these children have already been tortured.

  14. Mark says

    Sep 27, 2015 at 5:46 pm

    http://wikiislam.net/wiki/FGM#Fuqaha.E2.80.99_of_Islam_are_agreed_that_it_is_prescribed.2C_not_an_inherited_custom

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