This press release was published yesterday. An extract:
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said:
FGM is a devastating act of violence that no woman or girl should ever have to suffer. I am proud that this government is taking world-leading action to tackle this horrendous crime, but there is more to do.
We are still yet to see a perpetrator brought to justice and I am determined to see the first successful prosecution for FGM. And most importantly, we need to protect women and girls by preventing acts of FGM before they happen.
The clear commitment shown by the people gathered here today makes me confident that we can wipe out FGM within a generation.
Along with my colleagues, and all those involved in this initiative, I don’t give a rat’s arse about MGM.
I may have added a sentence there, but it was implied, I think.
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It’s the culpable lack of giving a damn about MGM that sticks in the craw, that’s the point here I realise that.
But I am bound to suspect her firebrand words are so much hot air designed to bolster her cred with the feminist SJWs and avoid blame in ADVANCE, given the ‘racist’ practical complications that will attend the sentiments.
When FGM fails to meekly lie down and die, as she already knows it will, she can say it’s nothing to do with her.
She “did her best” you know, made speeches about it an’ all…
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I couldn’t resist a chuckle at ‘preventing acts of FGM before they happen’. How like a woman to get to the root of the problem without prevarication; a man in her position could not understand the need to do that. Thank God for women in politics – now we all know that bad things must be prevented before they happen.
More seriously, is Amber likely to raise the issue of MGM in the HoC, given that she is a dedicated friend of Israel?
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PS:
From Wikipedia:
‘She helped to find extras for the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, for which she was credited as the “aristocracy co-ordinator”, and appeared briefly in one of the church scenes in the film.‘
Amber Rudd helped to find extras for a film and is not an aristocrat. You have to laugh, don’t you?
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I’ve been an extra in films and I’m still laughing at the idea of Amber helping to find some. It really isn’t that difficult to find a few people with little better to do that day than earn a little money and to put that in a CV for a government minister really is a little sad.
How low will we allow ourselves to be dragged before we refuse to accept idiots like Amber Rudd as our leaders?
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I think we have to be honest here. FGM has the virtue of being something that happens “in a far away land” and within a small immigrant community with no clout. Political posturing gold
MGM is quite widespread and done in large and influential immigrant communities in the UK, political risks all the way. In other words there would have to be rather more than platitudes at buffets.
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it is extraordinary how much energy and political time is being spent trying to tackle FGM and produce a successful prosecution. There have been two changes to the law on FGM in recent years – in 2003 and 2015, both aimed at making prosecution and conviction easier. The lack of prosecutions may be due to the fact that FGM is a relatively minor problem in the UK with only 43 identified cases in 2015/16 where the mutilation was actually undertaken in the UK; most of these were Type IV: nicking or piercing. Most women who have medical complications as a result of FGM have been circumcised abroad.
The most extreme form of FGM – equivalent to a full male castration – is very rare, and yet it drives the propaganda.
For every confirmed act of FGM in the UK, a thousand boys are circumcised in a barbaric ritual which stands in terms of severity between Type IV FGM and the other types. In adult life, it leads to vastly reduced sexual pleasure, and difficulties with erection, ejaculation and conception. It can also contribute to mental health issues, That’s if the child survives.
For complicated legal, religious and cultural reasons, MGM is tolerated where FGM is not. The Telegraph gave column space a while ago to a mohel to justify the practice. It would be unthinkable to allow a practitioner of FGM space to justify her beliefs, and yet as recently as the 1970s western women’s magazines were full of articles extolling the benefits of female circumcision. The culture CAN change, and it is only a matter of time before MGM is seen as the barbaric child abuse it is.
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Thanks. The reason for the lack of successful prosecutions is simple, and has long been known. Whenever and wherever FGM is carried out, in the UK as elsewhere, it is carried out by women at the behest of women. If we add the racial issue – which we very rarely do on this site, but here it’s necessary – for the state to bring successful prosecutions it would need to target the cohort of people carrying out FGM, middle-aged and elderly black women. Feminists embedded in the criminal justice system seek to pin the blame on men – as the absurd prosecution of a male surgeon a year or two showed – and their efforts are probably doomed to failure. If they wanted to end FGM in the UK, they would have to admit who the perpetrators are, and for ideological reasons they will never do that, so the problem continues.
The idea that men as a class – as opposed to a few individual men, mostly for religious reasons these days – would wish to reduce the sexual pleasure of women is utterly ridiculous. And of course MGM reduces sexual pleasure more than most FGM, as you point out. Let me know if you’d like links to an important paper by the Oxford ethicist Brian D Earp, comparing MGM and FGM.
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