'Cutters' join fight against genital mutilation

[dArKeR]

By Mark Lacey
NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , Nairobi, Kenya

Isnino Shuriye still remembers the pride she felt years ago when she leaned over each of her three daughters, knife in hand, and sliced into their genitals.

Each time, as the blood started to flow, she quickly dropped the knife and picked up a needle and thread. Quickly, expertly, she sewed her daughters' vaginas almost shut.

"I was full of pride," she recalled recently.

"I felt like I was doing the right thing in the eyes of God. I was preparing them for marriage by sealing their vaginas," she said.

Now she feels like a butcher, a sinner, a mother who harmed her own flesh and blood, not to mention the thousands of other girls she says she circumcised in the last quarter-century as part of a traditional rite still common in Africa.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/06/13/2003174895

[JohnLocke]

1. Circumcision to FGM comparison in 5...4...3...2...

:nuke:

[Deja Q]

2. I should have realized that was graphic.

Not because of their naming of the organs but because of what this nutjob DID to them. :scared: :puke:

Inhumane and inhuman.

[Merlin]

3. Great to see this. If Muslims can change their religious thinking...

who knows, maybe there's hope Christians can too!

(True we don't mutilate women's genitals, which is pretty gruesome. But we do use religion to stigmatize gays and out-of-wedlock mothers, to demonize sexuality, to justify the rejection of both rational thought and scientific knowledge, to teach that women must be subservient to men, to legitimate the dispossession of peoples from their homelands based on the myth that in the Middle East "God gave this land to" his "chosen people" several thousand years ago, and on and on.)

[delete_bush]

4. Don't let the xtian fundies see

the part about sealing their vaginas to prepare them for marriage. I sense a constitutional amendment here when they find out.