‘Britain
to prosecute genital mutilation’ read the heading of the article buried
in the ‘world notes’ section of my local paper the other day. Well, that’s
super, but in an age where one can be prosecuted for saying ‘hurtful’ things, and a privately owned professional sports
franchise can be forced to change its team name
because someone could be offended, I
would hope cutting off your
daughter’s clitoris would be frowned upon.
LONDON- ‘Parents
in Britain who subject their daughters to genital mutilation will be
prosecuted, Prime minister David Cameron announced Tuesday, a day after new
research showed that the number of victims of the practice here is about twice
as high as previously believed.’
…”Genital
mutilation has been illegal in Britain since 1985, but the first prosecutions
took place only this year.”
This,
basically, was the extent of this ‘article’.
Typical
modern day mainstream media. No root cause given. No
probing. No questions. (Unless a controversy
surrounds someone who doesn’t hold their views and is not a protected minority.
Then, they go in for the kill). At least
they didn’t blame the Church of England. Say, why didn’t they need a law
banning this practice until 1985? Hmmm. There’s
a particularly obvious question. Were
they just lopping ‘em off by the millions, but nobody really cared until then?
Catholics and Protestants had rather
famously been around Britain for hundreds of years. This never seemed to be a
problem until recently. What’s changed? Immigration of…Musli…? No, nope, never
mind! Nothing to see here! How ‘bout
that Manchester United squad?!
You know if a Protestant or Catholic member
of Parliament had this done to their daughter(s) it would have been so stated. (Would’ve
led off the nightly news in fact). That ‘member’ would’ve been called a
‘monster’.
As
Martin Luther King, Jr. so eloquently said, “the day we see the truth and cease
to speak is the day we begin to die.”
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