This is not an easy subject to discuss but it is important in the extreme to talk and write about. Wesley J. Smith of Second Hand Smoke, has posted this article "Female Circumcision: A Denial of Intrinsic Human Dignity" on his site. Scroll down a bit to find it.
Smith is an advocate for life and against euthanasia. And he writes about other bio-ethics issues. He is the author of Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America and Forced Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted suicide, and the New Duty to Die as well as many other books. His posting concerns an article taken from the New York Times Magazine.
Smith writes: "There is a brutally honest essay in the New York Times Magazine about the dismaying number of young girls in Indonesia whose parents force them to undergo the genital mutilation that goes by the euphemistic term, "female circumcision." It is an awful story of the worst kind of misogyny, and in my view, amounts to slavery."
4 comments:
Have you read Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali? She goes into not too much, but enough detail about her own circumcision. It was good (not the right word but only one I can think of) to know the details just so the act becomes even more horrific. There was mystery prior to reading her story. Now that I've read her account I can only stand aghast that this practice continues with little outrage from even the Muslim community.
I haven't read it; I probably should. Thanks for the reference. Somewhere else, I can't remember where, I have read details. It is horrific and as far as I am concerned a black stain on much of Islam.
Horrible, cruel idolatry, committed against innocents in the name of Islam. That religion has a terrible record of crimes against women, for thousands of years.
So much for their supposed faith in God, to want to re-create humanity for him.
Yes Toby,
One wonders why they don't see God's creation as His and attempt, instead, to change it.
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