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Maine: Democratic Senate Hopeful Repeatedly Killed ‘Racist’ Bills to Outlaw Female Genital Mutilation

Aug 17, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

My latest in PJ Media:

The most revolting news item of the week comes from Maine, where, according to the Washington Free Beacon, “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.” In amassing this shameful record, Sara Gideon has become Exhibit A of everything that is wrong about identity politics, the Democratic Party, and the Left in general.

The Free Beacon notes that Gideon’s determination to enable the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is abundantly established. She “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.”

Why on earth would Gideon do something as heinous as this? The answer is simple and predictable: “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.”

It’s racist to outlaw FGM? Well, of course it is, because Sara Gideon needs the votes of Maine’s rapidly growing Somali community, and that’s as far as her moral calculus goes. The Free Beacon notes that “Gideon’s efforts have helped make Maine one of only 12 states that have not banned female genital mutilation,” and that “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,” but Gideon has shown in opposing efforts to criminalize FGM that she doesn’t really care about women’s rights at all. She poses as a women’s rights advocate when seeking donations from well-heeled Leftists, but she likely knows that those same Leftist donors won’t be concerned in the least about her wanting to allow for the preservation of a time-hallowed Somali cultural practice. After all, any other course of action would be “ethnocentric” and “Islamophobic,” right?

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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  1. Chris says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 5:08 pm

    WOW. Democrat stands for female genital mutilation. How sick is that. Disgusting. Pandering at it’s finest… or worst.

    • stressed eric says

      Aug 17, 2020 at 5:22 pm

      What do you expect from still Obama’s puppet Biden the kiddie fiddler and so pleased to hear the bikers at Sturgis chased all the Democrat and Antifa scum out of town protected by leftwing plod

    • mortimer says

      Aug 18, 2020 at 10:33 am

      HEALTH RISKS FOLLOWING FGM

      https://youtu.be/FR9QzlRno4A

      • mortimer says

        Aug 18, 2020 at 10:41 am

        More health risks following fgm:

        https://www.who.int/sexual-and-reproductive-health/health-risks-of-female-genital-mutilation

        https://healthtian.com/health-complications-of-female-genital-mutilation/

  2. stressed eric says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 5:28 pm

    wonder the democrat bint if she supports the inbred pigs for such practacis why let one of the people this hypocrite Democrap supports cut off her cunt lips Hey Sara Gideon put your money where your mouth is but that would never happen she is a vote rigging Democrat like we have in the UK with Liebour

  3. AnnChristine says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 5:31 pm

    How can a Country go forward in society with Greed so evident ——-This cannot be allowed!!

  4. tim gallagher says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    Completely unforgivable behaviour by this politician. How any person could ever act in a way that protects FGM is beyond me. This woman’s behaviour is as low as it can get. People who support such barbaric practices as FGM , as apparently many Somalis do, definitely should not be allowed into any civilised country. Then again, I’d shut out all Muslims, like the Hungarians and other Visegrad bloc countries do, since Islam is full of barbaric garbage. I’d have to say that Sudanese and Somalis have been some of the worst migrants Australia has ever taken in with very violent youth gangs, especially in the city of Melbourne. They have been a huge negative for the country.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Aug 17, 2020 at 7:12 pm

      “What a fantastic contribution muslims make to this country!”
      David Cameron

      • tim gallagher says

        Aug 17, 2020 at 11:15 pm

        Michael, I wonder if Cameron really did believe that. “Fantastic contribution” is certainly way over the top. Personally, I believe letting barbaric Islam into any country is a bad move and brings nothing positive to any country, although there are a few Muslims who, by some miracle, do actually seem to be pleasant people. Then again, the Muslims I have met who do seem alright were not people that I could say I knew well at all. To me, Islam is completely incompatible with our societies’ values and Muslims are always going to be trying to impose their crap on us, so I’d keep them out. Was David Cameron trying to win some Muslim votes with that bullshit statement of his?

    • Robert Porter says

      Aug 18, 2020 at 7:09 am

      In Canada the pretence is that FGM is illegal, but girls are taken overseas, such as to disgusting Somalia, for this obscenity and increasingly FGM t is occurring in the country while the cowardly, gutless wonders in Ottawa are silent. So civilization recedes while stupid, disgusting Western politicians, accepted Muslim immigrants and increasingly their barbaric practices and thinking. Islam is NOT a civilization, it is a pagan belief system.

      • Mary says

        Aug 18, 2020 at 3:27 pm

        Don’t insult pagans please they don’t believe in FGM.

      • tim gallagher says

        Aug 18, 2020 at 6:02 pm

        Robert, my memory is a bit vague on this, but I’m pretty sure that Australia, where I live, has had a few similar cases, where girls have been taken back to Somalia to have FGM inflicted on them. Also, in Australia, I’m pretty sure that a few cases of FGM have been carried out here in this country. Of course, there are probably far more cases that haven’t come to the attention of authorities. All the problems with Islam’s barbaric practices seem to be replicated in all our countries.

  5. revereridesagain says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 6:44 pm

    Sarah Gideon is a whore not necessarily of Islam, but certainly for the Muslim population of cities such as Lewiston which have been taken over by the legalized invasion of so many thousands of Somalian slaves of Allah. Even Marxachusetts came around to recognizing the plight of these girls and women and has finally banned FGM, but what’s a few thousand mutilated little girls in the face of Sarah Gideon’s political ambitions?

    And these days, when all else fails, just place the “raaaaaaacism” card.

  6. Wellington says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    Ah, yet another good Democrat.

    My God, how I have come to despise the Democratic Party of the USA. Didn’t used to. Sure do now.

    • GreekEmpress says

      Aug 17, 2020 at 8:00 pm

      She definitely sounds like one of the women you and OTTER said “vote stupid”!

    • James Lincoln says

      Aug 18, 2020 at 9:31 am

      Wellington,

      The dwindling number of decent, JFK type Democrats are faced with the fact that their party has “left” them.

      The ones that I have spoken with are confused by this development.

      And like you said (I think I’ve got it right) on a previous post:

      In November, they will either not vote – or they will vote to reelect Pres. Trump and not tell anyone…

      These “traditional” liberals have either reached, or are rapidly reaching retirement age – and they don’t want to see their IRAs / 401(k)s decimated…

  7. gravenimage says

    Aug 17, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    Maine: Democratic Senate Hopeful Repeatedly Killed ‘Racist’ Bills to Outlaw Female Genital Mutilation
    ……………….

    *Just hideous*. How is protecting little girls from mutilation “racist”?

  8. Linde Barrera says

    Aug 18, 2020 at 5:01 am

    Immigrants to any new nation must adapt to the laws of that new nation. FGM is evil no matter where it is embraced and performed.
    So even if Somalia allows FGM, which they should not, the US should not allow it and should severely punish anyone who performs FGM. Any politician that embraces FGM should be impeached.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 19, 2020 at 12:03 am

      +1, Linde.

  9. Brian Ozzy says

    Aug 18, 2020 at 6:07 am

    Another disgusting Hillary clone to whom power and money are all that matter. Women without empathy, decency or conscience. They are blights on humanity.

  10. R Thomasson says

    Aug 18, 2020 at 6:54 am

    As non-American, who knows about the Lobster State Maine only from books, video’s, movies etc., one question is coming up in my mind: Who the hell had come up with the morbid idea to flood Maine with extreme dangerous black Muslim terrorist folk from the Horn of Africa? Normally people who want to emigrate to US, or having a Green Card, need to prove their credentials; even if they are academic formed. What benefit did someone see in primitive immigrants – mostly illiterate – with heavy tendency to Islamic terrorism? How would these Islamic fanatics integrate in American society? Or the society of Maine? Should they invite their Christian “unbelievers” neighbors to the genital mutilation-ceremony of their daughter? Sara Gideon (self not a real American) stands for the most hideous type of sleazy politicians who have no objection to step on corpses on their way to the top. Indeed, Sara Gideon is an Exhibit A of everything that is ugly about identity politics, the Democratic Party and the Left in general. Politicians of her kind provide a safe way down the drain.

    • James Lincoln says

      Aug 18, 2020 at 10:30 am

      R Thomasson,

      From the American Renaissance website:

      “Somalis didn’t choose Lewiston by accident. The ones in Atlanta wanted to escape high rates of violent crime and drug use. In 2000, the elders sent scouting parties to a number of cities where Somalis already lived, such as Columbus, Ohio; Kansas City; and Portland, Maine. Portland was promising, but housing was expensive. The elders chose nearby Lewiston because housing was cheaper and welfare benefits were higher”

      https://www.amren.com/blog/2020/03/lewiston-maine-somalis-african-immigrants-welfare/

      • R Thomasson says

        Aug 18, 2020 at 11:36 am

        @James Lincoln. That means: Maine, Minnesota, Ohio and all other states had enriched themselves with a significant folk of parasites and terrorists. One thing is for sure. They will Never Make America Great Again. We can find their equivalent in the world of nature: living free on other animals and endangering their health and well being.

  11. Aunty Podes says

    Aug 18, 2020 at 7:35 am

    Loathsome! There is a very obvious response to this despicable woman – let the Somali’s loose on her – see how she likes being butchered in the name of Allah!

  12. David says

    Aug 18, 2020 at 7:38 am

    This would certainly explain why that haint, Ilhan Schmo-mar, is as angry as she is all the time. Except in HER case, they shoulda sown the lips on her MOUTH shut.

  13. Francis Weber says

    Aug 18, 2020 at 10:13 am

    Has she offered up her clitoris?

    • mortimer says

      Aug 18, 2020 at 10:43 am

      Agree with FW. Gideon is a hypocrite. She enables the savage treatment of women.

  14. OLD GUY says

    Aug 18, 2020 at 11:11 am

    How sad that these weak minded politicians continue to kiss the asses of the islamic regime that wants total control of the world. When the Islamic religious dictatorship gains control Sara won’t have to worry about voting on anything, she will just become a worthless female slave controlled by her superior male.
    Sara your just voting for your own demise.

  15. James Lincoln says

    Aug 18, 2020 at 12:03 pm

    To my knowledge, Sen. Susan Collins has not addressed Sarah Gideon’s position on FGM in any campaign ads.

    She needs to do this…

    • Wellington says

      Aug 18, 2020 at 7:30 pm

      Agreed, James. But I suspect she won’t.

      • ME Infidel says

        Aug 19, 2020 at 12:00 pm

        James & Wellington, I contacted Collins’ campaign to suggest considering such an ad. I won’t hold my breath, but they ought to do it. Even though Collins is a RINO we can’t afford to lose a U.S. Senate seat to a Leftist like Gideon.

  16. E T says

    Aug 19, 2020 at 8:38 am

    Virginia – Dar Al-Hijra Islamic Center (mosque). Imam Shaker Elsayed — Female Genital Mutilation……
    “ The honourable thing for girls” to prevent “hypersexuality “. In societies where circumcision of girls is completely prohibited, hypersexuality takes over and the entire society and a woman is not satisfied with one person or two or three”.

    Canadian / Somali Said Rageah:
    “Non- Muslims disapprove of polygamy because they want Muslim women to be cheap goods like non-Muslim women. Muslim women who do not want to SHARE their husbands are not TRUE believers”.

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