At the slightest hint of “racism” or “discrimination” or "uncaringness" or “non-inclusiveness”; etc., the so-called mainstream U.S. news media and radical-liberal talk-show circus, will rise up in outrage! And, regardless of whether such claim is real, imagined, mistaken, contrived, or just outright non-existent, these pompous elements of our society will often unrelentingly overwhelm us with 24/7 politically-biased and ratings-lusted propaganda. Until someone has been, as a minimum, branded as an unforgivably despicable social outcast!
However, the same self-declared “epitomes of caring” continue to selectively ignore some of our World’s undeniably real and ongoing tragedies. Such as, the millions of past and present women and girls Worldwide who are shamefully subjected to “female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C).” More specifically, subjected to the horrific and ancient-rooted practice of piercing, cutting, removing, or sewing closed all or part of a woman’s or girl’s external genitals for no medical reason. A truly barbaric practice that researchers estimate more than 500,000 girls and women in the United States have experienced or are at risk of being subjected to.
And “why” the continued avoidance of this longstanding and continuing tragedy? Because FGM/C doesn’t fit the liberty/nation-destructive narrative! Yes, FGM/C doesn’t serve those who are otherwise preoccupied with more lucrative vote-seeking and/or ratings-craving endeavors. Such as, spinning their agenda-driven pretense about their deep concern for humankind. Especially, for example, regarding the welfare of illegal aliens and the children used to aid their self-serving illegal invasion of our country.
According to Public Health Reports / March-April 2016/ Volume 131: In 1996, the U.S. Congress passed legislation making female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) illegal in the United States. Nonetheless, Center of Disease Control (CDC) estimates revealed approximately 513,000 women and girls in the U.S. were at risk for FGM/C or its consequences in YR 2012, which was more than three times higher than earlier estimates based on 1990 data. And, the increase in the number of women and girls younger than 18 years of age at risk for FGM/C was more than four times that of previous estimates.
The CDC conclusion being, this estimated increase was wholly a result of the rapid growth in the number of immigrants from FGM/C-practicing countries living in the United States and not from increases in FGM/C prevalence in those countries.
On July 20, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health (OWH), announced more than $6 million in grant awards over a 3-year period to cities across the nation. Eight sites covering thirteen cities were selected to address the gaps and problems in FGC-related health care services for women and girls living in the U.S. who experienced FGC. The funds were to be used to prevent FGC of women and girls living in the U.S. who are at risk for having the procedure conducted here or in another country.
Yes, in excess of a half-million women and young girls now in the United States are at risk of being subjected to FGM/C within our U.S. borders, or temporally taken abroad for this hideous procedure! A shameful practice brought to U.S. soil as the result of immigration to the U.S. from African and Middle Eastern countries and elsewhere. From societies where FGM/C is entrenched in barbaric cultural tradition.
Brought to U.S. soil by individuals having no plans, or U.S.-enforced incentive, to discontinue this truly cruel and most-inhumane procedure, and otherwise “assimilate” U.S. culture and abide by U.S. constitutional law. As the yet untouched among us, through innocent-ignorance or intent, turn our so-called civilized heads away, in favor of countless less-challenging and more self-absorbed causes and distractions.
While, in this the 21st century, millions of women and young girls Worldwide continue to suffer deathblows to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, at the unspeakably-cruel hand of ancient-rooted FGM/C.
—William James Moore
“So here I stand, one girl among many. I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.” —Malala Yousafzai (1997- )
“However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.” —Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969-), a Dutch-American activist; author; former politician of Samali origin; a leading opponent of female genital mutilation; proponent for a reformation of Islam; supporter of women’s rights; an atheist; and founder of the AHA Foundation.
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” —Maya Angelou (1928-2014), American poet, author, memoirist, civil rights activist.
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