Why so many? Because of the rapidly rising Muslim population in the U.S. 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
And it is widespread in 30 Muslim countries.
“Female Genital Mutilation Rampant In the U.S.,” Tennessee Star, November 22, 2017:
…It’s estimated more than 500,000 women and girls in the U.S. are either victims of female genital mutilation or are at risk of being subjected to it.
ICE is teaming up with Homeland Security Investigations, Federal Bureau of Investigation International Human Rights Unit and the Department of Justice Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section to combat the crime, which is up threefold since 1990, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
ICE and the other agencies are ramping up efforts to identify girls at risk and investigating those who perpetrate female genital mutilation, the agency said.
This year, ICE carried out Operation Limelight USA at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Agents in June and August alerted 460 individuals on flights to and from countries with a high prevalence rate of female genital mutilation of a tip line to report this practice and the federal laws prohibiting it. The agency also is working with the FBI to investigate crimes.
But mutilations aren’t easy to prosecute, ICE admits.
“Unfortunately, parents or other family members are often involved, although many female family members may be victims themselves,” ICE said.
It’s suspected the ritual of mutilating the genitals of young women and girls to control their sexuality happens at a high rate among large immigrant populations in states such as New York, Minnesota and California, advocates fighting to stop female genital mutilation, also known as FGM, say.
The practice also occurs in Washington D.C., Georgia, Massachusetts and Virginia, which also boast large immigrant populations, Jessica Neuwirth, director of women’s rights organization Donor Direct Action, told Newsweek.
The brutal ritual is often a cultural tradition passed down through generations, Neuwirth said.
“When someone emigrates [to the U.S.], sometimes they’re just clinging to cultural traditions as a way of keeping connected to their home country,” Neuwirth said.
Education about the physical dangers and laws against FGM usually is an effective way to stop the practice, said Neuwirth, whose organization raises money for educational campaigns in Africa.
To date, only one individual in the U.S. has been charged under a federal law criminalizing the practice.
Dr. Jumala Nagarwala, a 44-year-old emergency room physician in Michigan, was charged in April with mutilating the genitals of two 7-year-old girls from Minnesota.
According to a criminal complaint, Nagarwala is accused of cutting clitoral skin off the girls. Although the complaint identified several other children who may have been at risk, she is only facing charges related to the two girls.
In the criminal complaint against Nagarwala, the two girls said they were brought to Detroit for a “special girls’ trip” and were told they had to go to the doctor because “our tummies hurt.”…
Charles says
The most SAVAGE CRIME of muslums everywhere!
Brutaly mutilating their own children! What a horrific CULT!
Place everyone involved IN PRISON for many long, dark years.
NO HALAL FOOD!
NO PRAYER RUGS!
NO “Satan’s BOOK!
ETC.
faraway says
Muslims are saying that allah made us imperfect! Isn’t that heresy?
abad says
It is but Allah is NOT the God of the Bible, Allah is Satan.
And FGM should be made illegal in the USA
Anne Smith says
Isn’t it already illegal ?
It is grievous bodily harm.
Frank J. Verderber says
Allah simply means “The God” [of Heaven]. Monotheism was already prevalent in the Middle East by way of Noah’s son Shem – hence s{h]emitics. When attributing “The” to the God of Heaven, one must know his name. Muslims do not know his name. The early Persians gave the Sky God the name of Ahura Mazda, later he became Mythrice. The point, the Mulsims understand from ancient monotheistic Shemism, that there is only one God, but they don’t know the name to call on. So the Devil took his advantage and spoke to Muhammad, while claiming to be Gabriel. Part of this problem lies in the fact the Jews who were congregated in Western Arabia in 600 AD were mostly Ebionite monotheists – a desert Jewish cult. They would prefer to keep the ineffable pronunciation of name from the Arabs, and so they encouraged; “Yeh, just call him Allah. However the cultic rituals of Allah can be easily traced back to the mother goddess, Al Lot. [ jcdoc.org ]
Sarah says
Well technically Allah gave women hair on their head’s and he expects that to be covered up since its so damn enticing to every male around her.
And the Muslim obsession with removing pubic hair and underarm hair. They think a woman is unclean with hair in those juncture’s of her body. Unclean – just the way Allah made them!
And he gave women a clitoris – an organ he designed that has no use other than to provide sexual pleasure – but he also wants it disfigured and hacked off. Then again, a Muslim will blame culture when backed into a corner with FGM – then turn around after escaping that tight squeeze and go back to calling it Islamic again.
Let’s face it, Islam as a religion is nothing but one contradictory inconsistency to the next in a big chain link. Trying to get a Muslim to open their eyes and see the hypocrisy in their own faith – heads will explode en masse.
Benedict says
Wouldn’t female genital mutilation be a job for Planned Parenthood?
M says
So, when does linda sarsour start trying to convince liberals that FGM is no big deal and just like male circumcision and just, you know, a cultural thing we should accept? Or no, bow down to like worms in awe and then start asking our own little girls if they wouldn’t like to be cut?
The left pushes trangederism on little children so….I wouldn’t even be surprised. When will the insanity end?
I resent the fact that fascist supremacist Muslim ideology has so warped society that on a holiday, or any day, this crap is even an issue. It should be OBVIOUS that the koran is full of exhortations to deceive, plunder and subjugate anyone who disagrees wit them and thus is anti freedom and anti life and anti American. These are facts. So what is the major malfunction that we have to be dealing with this?
mortimer says
All types of FGM have been shown to be associated with health complications.
Female genital mutilation is a dehumanizing and dangerous practice that needs to be stopped. However, mere legislation is not enough to stop the practice. There is need for a massive educational campaign on the harmful effects of FGM at all levels, such as; the community level, women’s groups, traditional birth attendants, and healthcare professionals. Also adequate psychological, social, and medical support needs to be provided for those who are already victims of this condition.
Female genital mutilation may result in immediate complications such as severe pain and bleeding and long-term complications such as: psychological, psychosexual, trauma, infertility, susceptibility to bacterial vaginosis, and genital herpes and obstetric complications including perinatal death. All types of FGM have been shown to be associated with complications.
Johnny Cuyana says
Mortimer, IMO, you hit on the KEY point: FGM is DEHUMANIZING!
Dehumanization is the PRIMARY technique by which TOTALITARIANS — in ALL of its manifestations, including most prominently, this death cult muhammedanism — can CONTROL others … and, in many cases, to be murdered individually and destroyed as a culture.
Pol Pot dehumanized his political opponents, the bourgeoisie …
The Turks dehumanized the Armenians, their ethnic and political opponents …
The Nazis dehumanized the Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, Handicapped, etc, their “pure ethnic” opponents …
The Chi-Coms dehumanized the bourgeoisie, their political opponents … same with Ho Chi Minh and, even today, similar practices are observed, for all to see, in several locations in Africa …
The Democrat Ante-bellum slave-holders dehumanized their African slaves …
Slavery in all cultures throughout our history was rationalized largely via dehumanization …
Etc, etc … ad nauseum …
The litany of such monsters and monstrous institutions is almost unimaginable if not for the fact that, so far, at least, such remains integral to our sometimes sad human history. [Rubbing salt into this widespread cultural sin is the disgusting fact that these days many, mostly leftist and globalists, are making great efforts to erase from such records, much of this history].
FMG, in our present context, but not exceptionally, is particularly insidious because such is a crime against our young USA citizens. As such, it is a muhammedan statement that: WE WILL NOT ASSIMILATE into the American culture!
These muhammedan criminals — or, is that characterization redundant? — understand that those young women, so mutilated and thereby so humiliated, MOST LIKELY, will NOT seek marriage [and children] outside of this evil religion; whereby, the vicious cycle of control and anti-freedom misogyny will persist, if we let it, for another 1400 years.
Our challenge, as always, will be whether WE freedom-loving Americans understand OUR American VALUES … in contrast with the true and profound dehumanizing nature of this monstrous and anti-American [anti-woman and anti-family] practice.
Where are the “feminists”? Where is the ACLU? etc … ? Where are the “good men” for which without tyranny will prevail?
gravenimage says
500,000 women and girls in US are victims of female genital mutilation or at risk of being subjected to it
…………….
This is larger than the size of my medium-sized city.
God, I hate Islam. Bloody barbarians.
Sarah says
““When someone emigrates [to the U.S.], sometimes they’re just clinging to cultural traditions as a way of keeping connected to their home country,” Neuwirth said.”
What a load of crap. Every time a girl is found to have suffered from FGM, take the girl from the family (and any other underage girls in the family) and then immediately confiscate all assets from the family, forcibly deport the family and permanently ban from ever reentering the country.
And by family I mean, every single person related to the victim by blood or by marriage. I don’t care if that means kicking out 65 people per girl. Take everything they own and boot them out.
Watch how fast they stop ‘clinging’ to the connection with their home country, then. If they still want to cling so badly – then good for them – they get to go home and enjoy it.
Sarah says
I can’t drop this yet, I have more to say. I am furious to the bone right now.
““When someone emigrates [to the U.S.], sometimes they’re just clinging to cultural traditions as a way of keeping connected to their home country,” Neuwirth said.”
Jessica Neuwirth – you are supposed to be in WOMEN’S RIGHTS!! How DARE you! Clinging to their cultural ancestry? Are you really going to try and excuse this away??
They are deliberately disfiguring and permanently mutilating small girls, for the SOLE PURPOSE of permanently destroying their ability to achieve pleasure during the sexual act,for their entire lives. It is to make sex painful and distressing for the female – so to hopefully prevent her from doing what us girls do so well and slut around like dogs on heat, amiright?
You pathetic excuse for a human being. You extraordinarily pathetic excuse for a ‘director’ of a women;s rights organization. You are a woeful female.
They are doing this, to make those poor girls scared shitless of ever having sex and to make sure they never ever enjoy it and thus – this keeps the girls ‘pure’ until their new owner, lord and master (oh I’m sorry, I meant to write husband) deigns to put his new toy to good use and has sex at her.
I say has sex at her – because that’s what they do. They’re not making love. They’re not even having sex WITH these women. These women are trained to lie there still and silently and endure as he quite literally, tears them apart, seeking only, his own pleasure and gratification.
Because a woman with a mutilated, scarred and disfigured clitoris and labia who is incapable of feeling anything other than shocking pain from the sexual act, is hardly going to run around having affairs as well, amiright?
Let’s not even get into the trauma of giving birth for some of these poor women. Or how many of them cannot urinate or defecate properly. How they get shocking infections when they get bodily waste from their bowels trapped inside their vaginal canals due to damage caused by the original disfigurement procedure to the anal canal.
And you call this ‘clinging’ to the culture of their home country?
You are a disgrace for enabling this. Yeah, you keep going with your ‘education’ and we’ll see how soon you manage to stop this from happening.
ca says
passionate words well spoken
gravenimage says
Fine posts, Sarah.
MFritz says
The most important aspect:
“Unfortunately, parents or other family members are often involved, although many female family members may be victims themselves,” ICE said.
At least 50% of all muslims are women. And while we may consider them “victims”, the absolute majority of them doesn’t see it that way. At all. They will support that system and keep on supporting it. Accepting suppression and discrimination, sexual slavery and the reducation to “birth machines” and human cattle – to be sold and treated as such.
You may think about islam as bearded males with a hatred of everything non-muslim and the Western civilisation in particular. But don’t forget that behind every man there’s a woman with a hijab doing the work. And without her he would not and he could not continue like this.
DO NOT FORGET THIS.
Carolyne says
More likely, behind every Muslim man there are four women with hijabs or garbage bags doing the work. And maybe some concubines. As a woman, I cannot see how I could nor would tolerate this second class status in society. The change lies with the women. Some of them would be murdered or badly beaten and stoned, but these filthy men would eventually give up this practice when their supply of willing women diminished.
Yes, I know how easy this is for me to say, but “Before I’d be a slave, I’d be buried in my grave.”
MFritz says
One fact that really shocked me was that of the Nazi concentration camps that had 635 guards. And 35.000 inmates.
What does it take to make people rise against fear of death and constant oppression?
M says
Excellent point!!!!
gravenimage says
Yes–most Muslim women actively support the savagery of Islam, including mutilating little girls.