Female circumcision

Female circumcision

Female circumcision - a social custom involving the invasive and destructive removal or disfigurement of the female clitoris - sure sounds like mutlilation and abuse to me and most other people in Western cultures, but some Africian scholars are now arguing that it should not only be allowed in Africa and in Islamic Middle Eastern countries where it is prevalent but also in Europe and the United States.

This so called ““third wave” or “multicultural feminist” seeks to convince us that female circumcision isn’t all that bad and is really considered a cosmetic procedure with “aesthetic results”. [huliq.com]

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Statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that worldwide, 150 million women and girls have been subjected to FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) and an additional two million girls are at risk each year. The US Ambassador to Cameroon Janet Garvey, the Deputy British High Commissioner at the British High Commissioner in Cameroon, Gillian Edwards, and other speakers stressed on the importance of Cameroon to be part of the fifteen other African countries that enacted laws criminalising FGM. Janet Garvey said it is their (interest to see that everybody in Cameroon is protected under the law. [allafrica.com]