Africa: Tens of Millions of African women mutilated according to UNICEF

Cairo - An estimated 70 million girls and women in 27 African and Middle Eastern countries have been "circumcised", according to Unicef.

The age-old tradition, also known as female genital mutilation (FGM), is primarily performed on girls ages four to 14, though in some countries it is done on infants. It involves removing a girl's clitoris and sometimes other external genitalia.

FGM is done out of beliefs that it controls a woman's sexuality, enhances fertility, initiates her into womanhood or is required by religion, although both Muslim and Christian leaders have spoken out against it.

FGM is also performed for hygienic and aesthetic reasons in some places where genitalia are believed to be dirty.



Countries where more than 50 percent of girls and women ages 15 to 49 are mutilated include: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan (north).

Countries where 10-50 percent of females aged 15 to 49 are mutilated include: Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Yemen. -

Source Url: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20080805054607860C807353

Posted By: Jan
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Date Posted: Saturday 09-Aug-2008
ChiOne1

Very interesting, and I lost track of the cinnections that can be made if you try to bring it together. O well, let me juat say, I gave up. :-)

Grazy
Pretoria

Date Posted: Friday 08-Aug-2008
Is there no stopping this terrible thing? It would seem a radical org should spring up to kill the mutilators of women but, alas, no one, including me, has the courage.

marie

Date Posted: Friday 08-Aug-2008
Chi0ne1,

You need serious help.

anonymous

Date Posted: Friday 08-Aug-2008
I second what Chi0ne1 wrote. Brilliant.

Lars Pluss
San Francisco CA
USA

Date Posted: Thursday 07-Aug-2008
It is the same with male circumcision, which is also genital mutilation, just to a lesser extent. Male mutilation is primarily for a certain group of men's male bonding ritual. Circumcision is unnatural in either case. In men it is so they can perform an unnatural act. Circumcision is of "god" if you consider who "god" is. God spelled backwards is "dog" as in the dog star Sirius, or Lucyfer or Isis.
Isis = $, statue of liberty, Madonna, Virgin Mary, Hera, Ishtar(easter), Semmaramis, Venus, Aphrodite, IsisRaEl, etc.
It is very demeaning to cause a man to become unnatural to perform an unnatural act, in the case of women it is pure sociopathic hatred of humans. Those who came up with circumcision have a disdain for humans.

Chi0ne1