Scandinavia fights female circumcision

If you wish to emigrate to the west, you MUST respect western human rights and social norms. Otherwise, continue living wherever you are. Western countries should prepare documentaries to show all who apply for immigration that genital attacks, mutilation and forced marriages are unacceptable, carry jail sentences and that western females are free to remain single, show faces and legs, travel alone, have bank accounts, earn and these are major reasons why the west is properous. Show a documentary of women swimming, earning or as lesbians. This way immigrants know what is expected. This mutilation is done solely to show power and community ownership of women's bodies. The pain, violation and the people holding the child down enforce this. Children already mutilated must become a liability, a reason to disqualify parents and all relatives from immigration. News like this spreads fast among potential applicants and will help prevent this cruel, rather stupid practice. Or at least get it talked about as abnormal and wicked.

“Forceful means — including laws — will not bring any success," Embaye said. "The approach should be respectful and not militant. The whole issue needs careful talking and patience where the communities concerned are slowly but readily educated."

I reject that approach utterly. When we deal with this issue in West Africa, we are respectful of their beliefs and sensitive to their values; we are working in their country and within their culture. I have reluctantly accepted that limitation. That reticence does not apply in Europe or America, to a practice that is, by every rational standard, unhealthy, abusive and destructive. This horrific mutilation must never be tolerated anywhere women have human rights. Any person who wants to immigrate to a first-world country must understand that abandoning this practice is one of the non-negotiable conditions. After there is general agreement that the practice is abandoned, we can work on explaining all of the reasons that excision is repulsive; not while we are facilitating the creation of new victims.

Thank goodness someone has the guts to try and stop this horror. People from where this practice is followed, should have their children checked when they emmigrate and if they are going back home, with their little girls, they should be told not to have fgm. When they return, the girls shold be checked and if fgm has happened, they should be removed from their parents and the parents (both father and mother) charged. They should not get their kids back and when released, the parents should be deported.

First, PLEASE! stop everyone from referring to this horrific act as 'female circumcision'. With circumcision, a functioning part of genitalia remains - a man can still have orgasm. You remove the clitoris and never again will that female experience orgasm. It is female genital mutilation and nothing else. Too many men read the word 'circumcision' and say, "what's the big deal? They've been circumcising men for eons!" I just know in my heart if anything close to this mutilation were directed at young boys' penises, the worldwide outcry, response and punishment would be swift and furious.

this is very good news. This is an atrocity and an act of barbarism that must be stopped.
It is not for the good of the young woman in any way. The fact that this is going on in 2009, along with stoning women to death and other crimes is appaling and terrifying

Thank you for taking on this abhorrent practice. Immigrants from countries that practice female genital mutilation should have to sign a document that they will not allow this procedure on their female children. More health and sexuality education needs to happen in those immigrant communities so that there is an understanding that this practice has serious consequences to women's health, their sexuality and childbearing. Men need to learn that a mutually pleasurable sex life is much preferable to marital rape.