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Legislators need to ban Sharia law. It is incompatible with US Law.
Maine: Battle over female genital mutilation
bill raging, by Ann Corcoran 3/3/18 Diversity is beautiful alert!
This is one of those great ‘fun’ political debates you will get to have
once the population of Muslims, mostly from East Africa, ‘find their way’ to
your state.
Maine,
especially Lewiston, is the Somali capital of the East!
The story at the Press
Herald is
long and detailed, but what you might see as a ‘no brainer’—-making it illegal
to subject anyone to this form of abuse, or to take someone out of the country
to have it done—isn’t
a no-brainer for the Leftwing women and the Southern Poverty Law Center which
oppose the bill.
Here
is a bit of the story from the Portland Press Herald just to give you the flavor: AUGUSTA — There are parts of the world where
it has long been common for adult women to slice away girls’ external genital
tissue in a bid to dampen their sexual desires.
Though
Maine is a long way from anywhere this has traditionally been a problem, a
battle is raging among lawmakers about whether the state ought to have a law
specifically barring female genital mutilation.
Safiya Khalid: “It is horrible.” But,
here’s what I want to know: if the Somalis in Maine are truly refugees why
are they going back to Africa for any reason? Isn’t that the place they claim
they were “persecuted.”
The
operation to slice off all or part of a woman’s clitoris and labia is
prohibited under federal law and is almost certainly banned by existing,
broader Maine statutes. In addition, there is no solid evidence that the
procedure, also called female circumcision, is happening in Maine.
One
provision in a bill legislators are considering also would make it a felony to
take a girl outside Maine to have someone cut her genital tissue without a
medical reason, which is already illegal under federal law.
Safiya Khalid, a Somali-American from Lewiston who serves on the city’s
library board, said Friday that “old school” women in her community “wouldn’t
risk” having the procedure done on a child in Maine, but some might take
their daughters back to Africa for it. She doesn’t know anyone who’s had it
done, she said, but she thinks it probably has occurred.
“It’s
a horrible experience,” Khalid said of the procedure, which is typically done
without anesthesia. “It’s just terrible.”
Critics of the proposal see it as a thinly disguised attack on
African immigrants,
especially Somalis who hail from an area where female genital mutilation is
widespread, basically
a swath from Somalia on the east coast of Africa to Sierra Leone on the west,
an area that includes Muslims, Christians and animists.
Kate Brogan opposes the measure because
it promotes stereotypes of Somalis. There is an “insidious assumption that members of Maine’s Somali
community support this harmful practice,” Maine Family Planning’s Kate Brogan
told lawmakers.
A
2017 survey of the immigrant community in Maine by Partnerships for Health
found that 71 percent think the practice is harmful and 82 percent believe it
shouldn’t happen. [Do the math based on numbers in
next paragraph, this still leaves a couple of thousand Maine immigrants who are
fine with the mutilation!—ed]
The issue has particular resonance in the Lewiston-Auburn area given
the influx of immigrants in the past two decades from countries where the
practice is common. About 7,500 East Africans have moved to Androscoggin County
and another 5,000 to Cumberland County in that time, according to the Immigrant
Resource Center of Maine.
Some of the women and girls who moved to
Maine underwent the illegal procedure in their home countries, though specifics
are hard to come by. Khalid said she knows “a lot of friends and people who had
it done” to them before coming to America.
Supporters of the measure, pushed in part by an anti-Muslim hate group, said girls need protection. What the hell! Act for America is an “anti-Muslim hate group.”
How dare this reporter and this paper swallow
the Southern Poverty Law Center’s propaganda without question! It is a disgrace! Do they not know how
discredited the SPLC has become? Has ACT contacted the paper and asked
for a retraction?
I guess we are left to conclude from SPLC’s
involvement in Maine—the Southern Poverty Law Center supports Female Genital
Mutilation. See my
archive on Maine, here and one specifically on Lewiston, here.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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