female circumcision

The BBC reports that at least 50 girls were taken from the UK to Somalia for female genital mutilation are being investigated by Scotland Yard. Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Tonge contacted the Metropolitan Police after spotting a large group of girls on a flight from Heathrow last Saturday...

Why do they hate us?: The article is describes numerous instances where women have been assaulted without consequence: - Women endure genital mutilation to reduce their sexual desires. - Its legal for men to beat women so long as they do so with "good intentions". - A gang-rape survivor was...

Linky. Linky. Linky. Linky God damn. (Begin MGM derail)

My sister is serving in the peace corps in a West African country. She is there primarily to provide education on medical issues, especially women's reproductive health. Her best friend in the rural village she is stationed in is the pharmacist. This man has 2 wives, which bothered her at...

Details here. General Napier is rolling in his grave. He would undoubtedly build gallows to stamp this out, like he did with Sati. A couple of insensitive, cruel, inhumane, racist hangings and the problem would be solved. And I must say we should do the same, perhaps with long jail times...

Interesting interview with Ayaan Hirsi-Ali. She talks about being circumcised against her will and the will of her father (her grandmother had it done behind her father's back). She talks about her upbringing and religious indoctrination, and how she eventually overcame that to become an atheist.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/muslim-scholars-rule-female-circumcision-unislamic/2006/11/24/1163871589618.html Not a moment to soon, either. It is a barbaric practice that is not justifiable in any form. The main problem is that it appears to me to be a cultural practice that predates...

Georgia House Bans Genital Piercings I know what the libertarian position on this will be, but still, ouch!