Female genital mutilation victim was 'aged just seven'

troops · 25 Jun 2013 at 23:01

Nothing will be done about FGM for fear of causing any offense to the M world.

dirtychinchilla · 25 Jun 2013 at 23:03

I'm not sure that's true. Personally, although I'd like to see the practice made illegal unless for medical reasons before 16, and only by choice afterwards, I think the risk is that, as with female genital mutilation, people will take circumcisions into their own hands, and it'll create more problems than were solved.

CREATIVE!11 · 25 Jun 2013 at 23:44

dirtychinchilla said:
To be fair, although I started the thread with an evident agenda, there was never any intention for it to sink to this level. Creative, once again, demonstrates why no one cares about his opinion.

I just want you to love me, WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LOVE ME!!!!!!

Angilion · 26 Jun 2013 at 00:53

Meridian said:
It's also far more trivial. If circumcision involved cutting off the underside of the glans, and then sowing your penis to your belly, then you could call it equivalent. But trying to equate the two procedures automatically lessens the idea of FGM. No it's not even slightly surprising for an overwhelmingly male forum, but it's still faintly annoying. It's a slightly more exaggerated version of having someone respond to your "leg blown off by a landmine" with "I once got a splinter in my finger".

There is a lot of variation in the degree of mutilation. You are comparing only the most extreme form for one sex with only the least extreme form for the other sex and claiming that those are the only forms that exist - that is not a fair comparison.

I find it "faintly annoying" that you're doing so and also that you use the word "trivial" to refer to any case in which a child too young to resist has their genitals forcibly mutilated solely because it is the custom to do so.

Craterloads · 26 Jun 2013 at 01:01

troops said:
Nothing will be done about FGM for fear of causing any offense to the M world.

It's already illegal :confused:

And the M world does not (mostly) do it and the C world does not (mostly) do it, mainly done in parts of Africa for cultural reasons rather than religious.

Angilion · 26 Jun 2013 at 01:03

troops said:
Nothing will be done about FGM for fear of causing any offense to the M world.

I may be wrong, but as far as I know it's not really supposed to be part of Islam anyway. As far as I know, it's not ordered in their koran and mentioned only in one piece of text attributed to Mohammed (although I think the origin is disputed to some extent), in which he expresses disapproval of it.