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Mutilating Female Children in Norway

Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:32 pm PDT

Sheer evil surfaces in Norway—but to Reuters it might be just a “rite of passage.” After all, who are we to judge? OSLO (Reuters) - Police in Norway have arrested a Gambian-born man and charged him and his wife with subjecting five of their six daughters to genital mutilation, officials said ...

LGF, Norway, Female Circumcision, FGM, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Islam

FGM Appallingly Prevalent in Britain

Thu, Jan 3, 2008 at 10:36 am PST

The Daily Mail cites a British health report that says at least 66,000 women and girls in the UK have been forced to undergo female genital mutilation. Such is the secrecy that surrounds the practice that even those aware that it occurs in large swathes of Africa and Asia will ...

Female Circumcision, FGM, Women's Rights, Misogyny, LGF, Islam

Anthropologists Defend FGM

Sun, Dec 2, 2007 at 9:22 pm PST

Yes, there really are some academics so blinkered by multiculturalism that they’ll defend the barbaric practice of female circumcision. Dr. Ahmadu, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, was raised in America and then went back to Sierra Leone as an adult to undergo the procedure along with fellow ...

LGF, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Islam, FGM, Female Circumcision

Norway Cracks Down on Female Circumcision

Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:03 am PDT

New information is coming out of Norway about the prevalence in the Muslim community of female genital mutilation: Norway cracks down on female circumcision. NORWAY took steps on yesterday to crack down on circumcision of girls by barring families from travelling abroad if officials suspect they plan to have the procedure ...

LGF, Norway, FGM, Female Circumcision

Dark Ages Via Satellite

Sat, Apr 1, 2006 at 12:55 pm PST

From MEMRI TV, here’s a mind-altering show from Kuwait’s Al-Rai TV, featuring an Egyptian Islamic expert discussing the finer points of female genital mutilation. [Video] Interviewer: So what about the girl’s opinion? Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: What do you mean? Interviewer: What if she says: I don’t want to be circumcised. What happens then? Dr. Muhammad ...

Egypt, FGM, Female Circumcision, MEMRI