This is where we have been heading for a long time, without anyone noticing, and now we are arriving. Opposition to female genital mutilation is “racist.” So also opposition to jihad violence and terrorism is “racist,” and so New York City dismantled a successful counterterror program. Soon any resistance to Sharia oppression and jihad violence will be utterly stigmatized — as it already is today to a tremendous degree. If this continues, resistance will even be criminalized.
Oh, and the rights of the girls who have to suffer this barbaric procedure? Why, speaking out for them is “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.”
Just imagine the soullessness this would require. Sara Gideon has never manifested any concern for the women and girls who have been condemned to lives of misery because of this practice. All she seems to care about is the naked pursuit of political power, no matter who gets destroyed in the process. This is the Left today.
“Maine Democrat Sara Gideon Killed Bills Outlawing Female Genital Mutilation,” by Yuichiro Kakutani, Washington Free Beacon, August 13, 2020:
Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon repeatedly killed bills to outlaw female genital mutilation during her tenure as the speaker of the Maine House of Representatives.
Gideon leveraged her leadership position in the Democrat-controlled legislature to kill two separate bills that would have criminalized the practice of severing the clitoris of infant girls and sewing their vaginas shut. Instead, the Democrat supported a different law that would have funnelled $150,000 to her political allies to educate Mainers about the practice instead of criminalizing it, according to a former state legislator who spearheaded the push to stop the mutilation.
Under Gideon’s leadership, Maine Democrats argued that the bill was racist toward the state’s large immigrant community from Somalia, a country where the practice is “nearly universal” according to the United Nations. The Democrats also argued that the practice rarely takes place in Maine and is already outlawed by existing federal and local laws.
Gideon’s efforts have helped make Maine one of only 12 states that have not banned female genital mutilation. Such a legacy threatens to complicate her cultivated image as a champion of women’s rights, one built on her consistent support for abortion access and the #MeToo movement. The image strategy has paid off, translating into hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and outside money support from national pro-abortion groups. Gideon did not respond to a request for comment.
F. A. Cole, a survivor of female genital mutilation who testified before the Maine legislature, expressed deep frustration for the bill’s failure. “The Democrats, especially the Speaker of the House Sara Gideon, did everything she could in her power to just kill this bill,” she told the Washington Free Beacon. “I could not understand why.”
Female genital mutilation is an archaic cultural custom practiced in parts of the Middle East and Africa that the United Nations considers a violation of human rights. The procedure, which is done to discourage sex outside of marriage, causes numerous medical problems such as excessive bleeding, infections, difficulty passing urine, and sometimes death. A 2012 Public Health Reports study estimated that more than 500,000 women and girls were at risk for female genital mutilation or its consequences in the United States.
The controversy started in 2017, when Republican state legislator Heather Sirocki introduced a bill that made it a crime for parents to force their child to undergo female genital mutilation. Gideon and other Democrats initially cosponsored the bill, but soon Gideon embraced a different version of the legislation. The new version struck out all penalties for the practice and instead allocated $150,000 from the state coffers to fund educational outreach programs to educate Mainers about female genital mutilation. According to Sirocki, Democrats told her the money would go to the Immigrant Resource Center of Maine, a nonprofit group run by Gideon ally Fatuma Hussein.
“This bill was designed to funnel money to Fatuma Hussein’s Immigrant Resource network so they could educate the Somali community on why, ‘naughty naughty, it’s bad to cut your little girl’s genitals,'” Sirocki said. The nonprofit did not respond to a request for comment.
Gideon and House Democrats ultimately voted against the original version of the 2017 bill, leading to the bill’s failure. To justify their votes, some Democrats argued that existing federal and local laws already prohibited the practice—even though the Maine Prosecutors’ Association testified that they “do not feel confident that they can charge someone with committing Female Genital Mutilation without the passage of this bill.”…
Antiislamicman says
Is she crazy.
owensgate says
Yes.
mortimer says
What ‘race’ is female genital mutilation?
owensgate says
Was there something in the Bill she voted against about “race”? Guess I missed it… I thought she voted it down because she approves of FGM (apparently – not wanting to quantify any objection). Every F of every “RACE” has G, and shouldn’t be M’d.
The Political Oracle says
This hurts democracy in America badly. Cruel and unusual acts like FGM should be recognized as sexual abuse and exploitation due to the nature and reason for such acts. The United States of America is a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and also the optional protocol. Does the Maine demoncratic senate candidate know this? My guess is that she is ignorant like most politicians in America today.
owensgate says
The “logic” of these Dumbocrats who champion “a woman’s right to choose” yet have no qualms about making a “choice” for an infant, rugrat or pre-schooler (sorry, I don’t know at what age islam demands this), a “choice” they would NOT make for themselves above the age when they know what it is, just cannot be understood in real terms. I would ask this strumpet if she would have it done to her.
J Morgan says
She should be forced to witness this horrifying, grisly procedure or better yet, have FGM performed on herself, then see how she feels about it. Shame on this woman. Please vote her out of office, Maine.
Charles Lavin says
Make it mandatory for all those D pollies to have this invasive procedure done to them , and the men , be eunuched , perhaps then less fools will be bred into politics on the D ticket
mortimer says
Sara Gideon is expressing the RACISM OF LOWER EXPECTATIONS.
The racism of lower expectations is in fact racism disguised as VIRTUE-SIGNALLING.
Definition: The racism of low expectation holds non-white groups and individuals to lower standards of behavior and achievement, and is a form of racism which can have disastrous effects. The racism of low expectation is particularly insidious because it is often masked with altruism and seemingly good intentions.
revereridesagain says
Opposing a woman’s right to choose what happens to her own body instead of being enslaved to something not yet human seems a bit of a contradiction in terms for those of us who oppose FGM, but then I suppose if ones “salvation” is at stake and making sure that females “pay for their fun” is high on ones list of priorities, it has a certain consistency.
However, I do believe that as women we own our bodies, and they are not the property of anyone’s Imaginary Friends. I also believe in education by demonstration when description fails, and wonder if this might apply in the case of Ms. Gideon. Would it get the point through her little pea brain if she were persuaded to strip and be held down by several devoted whores of Allah whilst having the nature of the procedure made clear by example on her own anatomy? Would all those votes from the hijrah pilgrims in Lewiston rate quite so highly as they apparently do now? One never knows with those maddened by lust for political power, however. And there’s case where I do believe this particular female should have to “pay for her fun”.
owensgate says
Funny thing about our bodies. In reality, they are NOT “Our Bodies”, they belong to God, who made them for us to reside in while we decide where we want to spend Eternity.
gravenimage says
I don’t think God is in favor of mutilating girls–unless your god is “Allah”…
Spiro says
Another useful idiot
gravenimage says
Yep.
Stanton Lore says
I fear there will be great acceleration of attempts to gain social/legal acceptance of FGM, if Trump loses and the Democrats have the trifecta (POTUS, Senate and House majorities). All women should be against this barbaric practice, and yet we see Democrat women defending it. I suppose they don’t want to be seen as Islamophobic. We are a nation on the verge of war within our borders. It is not enough that law enforcement is
ridiculed, assaulted in all ways imaginable, and groups like Antifa actually encouraged by state, county and municipal leaders to riot. Now “defund the police” is the popular mantra, as cities like Chicago explode in homicides. Statues commemorating our historic evolution are destroyed. “Defund the police!” Down with old white men! Down with cops!
So, the Democrats have their PresidentVice President ticket of an old white man (targeted early-on by the Me-Too movement) and the state of California Attorney General. Have Democrats lost their way? Down with old white men and cops so “let’s run an old white man and the top cop of California for POTUS and VP.” Harris has promised to take citizens’ guns within 100 days of winning the election. Will there be such a tidal wave of liberal popularity that FGM will be accepted, and legislatures reversing course to enable the practice? There’s a war on the horizon. And threats to take away guns will result in, as it has every other time, massive gun and ammo purchases by those of us who want to prepare ourselves for the worst outcome. Ther is war coming.
mortimer says
The ‘calling racism’ fallacy:
Proposition: I always call my opponents and critics ‘racist’ whenever they disagree with me.
Refutation: This racist-calling fallacy is a variation of the poisoning-the-well fallacy. Often no evidence of actual ‘racism’ is shown. It is enough to appeal to racism to ‘poison’ any valid points that the opponent may raise.
Kepha says
This is cultural relativism gone to seed. As for “education” efforts, they seem chiefly to be an excuse to employ a few otherwise unemployable college grads at taxpayer expense.
PRCS says
“Gideon and House Democrats ultimately voted against the original version of the 2017 bill, leading to the bill’s failure. To justify their votes, some Democrats argued that existing federal and local laws already prohibited the practice—even though the Maine Prosecutors’ Association testified that they “do not feel confident that they can charge someone with committing Female Genital Mutilation without the passage of this bill.””
IMO, a clear case of virtue signaling über alles.
As the article also notes: “If these were white girls would [Gideon] have taken the same stand?… If these were white girls, believe me something would have been done in Maine,” she [Cole] said. “But because these are brown and black girls, who cares?”
James Lincoln says
And Real Clear Politics currently puts Gideon at 45.0, Collins at 40.5.
Deeply disturbing.
And “big tech” is behind Gideon one hundred percent – YouTube video ads, etc.
Also the Portland Press Herald, a leftist rag, is also doing Gideon’s bidding…
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/me/maine_senate_collins_vs_gideon-6928.html
Pray Hard says
Just another evil, retarded, islamolusting white woman.
Boycott Turkey says
Unbelievable where are all the feminist ? I don’t understand why it seems to be Islamic women and fools like Sara Gideon promoting FGM these women are just as abusive as the Muslim men why would any women want this awful barbaric procedure for other women?
Keith O says
If FGM is so good, then how about she has it done to herself as an example of how wonderful and safe it is.
The W.H.O openly condemns the practice and has taken steps to ban it world wide. This then leads to the question.
Why is Gideon stopping the prevention of this criminal barbaric practice?
Only two reasons come to mind. First she has sadomasochistic tendency’s and likes to see young girls tortured. Or two.
She is being paid a lot of money by a “special interest group” to take this stance. Either way this needs to be investigated.
Gork says
Well, which is it? Do Women own the rights to their own bodies, or not? I have no idea how she can vote the way she does.
gravenimage says
Maine: Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon repeatedly killed ‘racist’ bills to outlaw female genital mutilation
………….
How is preventing the mutilation of little girls “racist”? Sick, sick stuff.
Then note that Sara Gideon is accusing not Jihadists but *Republicans* of “terrorism”:
https://bangordailynews.com/2018/04/19/politics/maine-house-speaker-accuses-lepage-gop-of-terrorism-in-state-house-showdown/
ME Infidel says
Gideon is now in a tight race against incumbent Sen. Susan Collins. Gideon’s specialty is lying in her campaign ads and taking out of state mega donations. As the Speaker of the Maine House during the CCP Virus, she suspended the legislature and has not yet called them back into session. This provided the incompetent and dictatorial Gov. Mills to impose draconian measures on Maine businesses and citizens even though there have only been 125 deaths in the entire state while causing $18+ billion in lost economic revenue. Anti-Trumpers, Gideon and Mills, could care less about their constituents. Both are hard-core Leftists who only care about power.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
So this is how we all die… under the boot of some ditzy bimbo politician who is unable to comprehend the horrors of the religion that she defends… she obviously lives in a gated community and has never had to live alongside any of the people she pretends to like.
Even as she kills America she still thinks that all she’s doing is defending a poor helpless “minority” who wouldn’t hurt a fly…
Wrong, she’s actually helping them choke the oxygen out of life itself, and kill freedom, decency and sanity…
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
If this hideous braindead creature is okay with mutilation then I genuinely hope she gets run over by a truck tomorrow. I hope my comment is not deleted since all I’m doing is matching her ill-will, I am not threatening her in any way.
I presume she wouldn’t like the same procedure to be done on her, either…
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
How can you be so braindead and soulless as to not oppose the horrors of Islam? How does this pathetic creature even get out of bed in the morning? She doesn’t even seem intelligent enough to dress herself, or use the toilet successfully, or go down a flight of stairs without tripping and breaking her neck.
Why does this creature (and many others like it) exist?
Western Canadian says
Simple to solve. Let the bought off by islamic money, experience it for herself.
somehistory says
If this evil fool feeble excuse for a human followed what Jesus Christ said, “Do to others what you wish them to do to you,” then she would be against such demonic evil as what is done to babies and children.
If she ever claims to follow Jesus’ commandment, then she should be calling up her nearest sicko/evil slime and having it done.