The way FGM statistics are recorded by NHS Digital do not help to clarify the situation.Or, to translate: "The NHS is so utterly shit at recording stuff, no-one has any chance of finding out the real truth without a lot of work'."
Still, the 'Guardian' has fearlessly put in the work to .... wait, no, it's the 'Daily Mail':
The figures are divided into four types, with further divisions, ranging from the removal of the clitoris to the narrowing of the vaginal opening. They also include women who have had genital piercings rather than any cutting.Well, most cases of FGM will be cropping up in Essex then! Nor is this a surprise, because wasn't it foretold in The Great Book..?
The term ‘newly recorded’ is used, suggesting these are recent procedures, but the figures include historic cases of women from overseas who have had their details noted for the first time and may have had FGM years earlier.A likelihood I've pointed out time and again in blogs and on Twitter, to the 'Won't someone think of the chiiiildreeeen!' crackpots.
Indeed, of the 5,391 ‘newly recorded’ cases last year, only 112 involved women and girls born in the UK. Only 57 cases involved FGM undertaken in the UK and around 50 of those were genital piercings.Which leaves seven cases. Seven!
The remaining seven cases did not involve cutting and there is no indication that they refer to children.Which leaves a number closer to zero. So why in heaven's name, at a time when we've just had a bomb on the London transport system, are we sending coppers to St Pancras to quiz visitors about it?
Because of the 'Something must be done!' crowd, of course.
I served as a Police officer in a town with a large Pakistani population. My (then) wife was a paediatric nurse and the stories of young girls who had been admitted due to FGM being performed, badly, on them was horrific. Only a few medical staff dared to speak out about their concerns to the hospital authorities but the only action taken was that they had their contracts cancelled or were fired for 'gross negligence or misconduct', not only allowing this problem to be pushed under the carpet but to prevent these concerned staff from future employment in a medical profession. My wife was one of them, tried to clear her name, without success due to various records being lost or mislaid or accidentally deleted.
ReplyDeleteThe various families would not make allegations or assist enquiries as "it was a cultural thing and we in the west wouldn't understand". Of course, the act was carried out, usually, by the grandmother and as women don't have a voice in their religious cult, no action was ever taken.
The aim of FGM in children is to stop females from enjoying sex. Often the labia is partly sewn up to leave a smaller space which gives the male more pleasure in the sex act, possibly to make up for their sexual inadequacies (ISIS - Islamic Sexual Inadequacy Syndrome - which may be the reason they are so angry at everybody else). This sewing up of the labia has a knock on effect when/if the female gives birth as the exit from the birth canal is smaller which can cause birth deformities and excruciating pain for the mother, but hey, Abdul is a father. Let's ignore the screams from his wife and go and shag a small boy in celebration.
Male circumcision was a middle eastern thing to prevent sand or dirt getting into the foreskin which could lead to disease. In the western world it is often done when the tip of the foreskin is considered too tight.
The problem in this country is that we have too many SJWs in positions of power and as long as they remain there, this barbaric practice will continue. In the long term, once the Corbynistas and their like allow Shariah law to rule, then EVERY female child will 'enjoy' this cultural act.
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I read a long article in UK Readers Digest a few years ago written by a woman (iirc a model) about her FGM. Clitoris removed and rest sewn up so tight urinating took ~30mins and menstruation was problematic. It was done by female village elder when she was 6 using kitchen knife & bone-needle, no anaesthetic or sterilisation. Horrific.
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"Male circumcision... In the western world it is often done when the tip of the foreskin is considered too tight."
Don't know if foreskin was too tight or too long - I was 9; but done as it kept becoming infected with pus oozing out.
Years ago there was a bleeding-heart BBC programme about the plight of women who had undergone botched circumcisions leaving a fistula and resultant incontinence. This meant that they were unable to lead productive lives as social stigma confined them to their huts in the Somali desert, but with your generous donation ... blah blah blah. Then I would go to my local supermarket and regularly encounter afflicted women from that part of the world who had bravely overcome any such stigma and wandered at leisure stinking up the aisles. Oh! the enrichment.
ReplyDelete"Only a few medical staff dared to speak out about their concerns to the hospital authorities but the only action taken was that they had their contracts cancelled or were fired for 'gross negligence or misconduct'..."
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, no-one seems interested in pursuing this historic injustice. Must be too busy with Ted Heath, Hillsborough, Orgreave...
It makes me sick.
"Oh! the enrichment."
Truly, we are blessed... :(