If you think male circumcision is barbaric - female circumcision is nightmarish. UNICEF reports that 140 million girls and women are alive today who have been circumcised. The BBC recently reported 125 million but that was restricted to 15-59 year olds. In fact, most of these genital mutilations occur before the girl is 15 and sometimes as mere infants.
The details are gruesome and I hesitate to repeat them here, but there are many different forms of female circumcision from removal of the clitoris to the removal of the clitoris and the inner and outer labia. Very often they cut the vagina and sew it together leaving just enough room for urine and blood to come out. The procedure is then reversed when the girl gets married. Most procedures are not performed in a hospital setting and most parents are in complete agreement with it.
More than 100 million of these girls and women live in equatorial or northeast Africa while most of the remainder are in the middle east and Asia. As many as 200,000 such girls may live in America. Virtually all the victims are Muslims. The WHO avoids saying that in their reports but all the countries named are Islamic and the American girls are also, no doubt, Islamic.
The consequences are many and varied and almost all involve considerable pain. The point of the procedure is to reduce or eliminate the girl's pleasure from sex. This, apparently, promotes chastity and purity.
According to WHO, 30 million more girls are in danger of this genital mutilation in the next 10 years. Let's add them to our prayers and perhaps the Lord will dramatically reduce that number.
My sample prayer in "Save A Child from Sexual Abuse" has been updated to include this.
Please pray, and please spread the word so others will pray.
The details are gruesome and I hesitate to repeat them here, but there are many different forms of female circumcision from removal of the clitoris to the removal of the clitoris and the inner and outer labia. Very often they cut the vagina and sew it together leaving just enough room for urine and blood to come out. The procedure is then reversed when the girl gets married. Most procedures are not performed in a hospital setting and most parents are in complete agreement with it.
More than 100 million of these girls and women live in equatorial or northeast Africa while most of the remainder are in the middle east and Asia. As many as 200,000 such girls may live in America. Virtually all the victims are Muslims. The WHO avoids saying that in their reports but all the countries named are Islamic and the American girls are also, no doubt, Islamic.
The consequences are many and varied and almost all involve considerable pain. The point of the procedure is to reduce or eliminate the girl's pleasure from sex. This, apparently, promotes chastity and purity.
According to WHO, 30 million more girls are in danger of this genital mutilation in the next 10 years. Let's add them to our prayers and perhaps the Lord will dramatically reduce that number.
My sample prayer in "Save A Child from Sexual Abuse" has been updated to include this.
Please pray, and please spread the word so others will pray.
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