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((It's funny, Saddam Hussein might have been a "bad man", but he
didn't cut little girl's clitorises off with razor blades. Saddam
Hussein was Westernizing and detribalizing his peoples. Like Kemal
Ataturk or Brigham Young, he was primarily a nation builder. Most
nation builders ARE brutes. Do you think the American Revolutionary
War was agreed to over a pleasant cup of tea?? No, naysayers were
harassed, jailed, or kicked out of the Colonies to Canada. So instead
of letting him finish the job we invaded his arbitrary-nation-state,
captured him, and then instead of offing him in cold blood honestly we
rigged up a kangaroo court the likes of which haven't been seen since
Nuremberg. Why? Who benefitted?? Well, we all know who benefitted.
They always do. Bret.))


Cultural Brutality Noted among Iraqis
[Brenda Walker]


"The Washington Post observed in its article about female genital mutilation among Iraqi Kurds that more than 60 percent of women have undergone the procedure. While Islamic apologists insist that the brutal torture is not mentioned in the Koran, many Muslims believe that their religion requires it to suppress women.

The photo is from the deeply disturbing slide show accompanying the
article and shows a girl screaming in agony after being cut.

Sheelan Anwar Omer, a shy 7-year-old Kurdish girl, bounded into
her neighbor’s house with an ear-to-ear smile, looking for the party
her mother had promised.

There was no celebration. Instead, a local woman quickly locked a
rusty red door behind Sheelan, who looked bewildered when her mother
ordered the girl to remove her underpants. Sheelan began to whimper,
then tremble, while the women pushed apart her legs and a midwife
raised a stainless-steel razor blade in the air. “I do this in the
name of Allah!” she intoned.

As the midwife sliced off part of Sheelan’s genitals, the girl let
out a high-pitched wail heard throughout the neighborhood. As she
carried the sobbing child back home, Sheelan’s mother smiled with
pride.

“This is the practice of the Kurdish people for as long as anyone
can remember,” said the mother, Aisha Hameed, 30, a housewife in this
ethnically mixed town about 100 miles north of Baghdad. “We don’t know
why we do it, but we will never stop because Islam and our elders
require it.”

Kurdistan is the only known part of Iraq –and one of the few
places in the world–where female circumcision is widespread. More than
60 percent of women in Kurdish areas of northern Iraq have been
circumcised, according to a study conducted this year. In at least one
Kurdish territory, 95 percent of women have undergone the practice,
which human rights groups call female genital mutilation.

The practice, and the Kurdish parliament’s refusal to outlaw it,
highlight the plight of women in a region with a reputation for having
a more progressive society than the rest of Iraq. Advocates for women
point to the increasing frequency of honor killings against women and
female self-immolations in Kurdistan this year as further evidence
that women in the area still face significant obstacles, despite
efforts to raise public awareness of circumcision and violence against
women.
[For Kurdish Girls, a Painful Ancient Ritual, Washington Post,
December 28, 2008]

So it’s the socially advanced Iraqis who brutalize their little girls
in this way — imagine my relief. What can the retro ones be up to?

For information about Kurds already residing in America, see my 2007
article, What The New York Times Didn’t Tell You About Nashville’s
Kurdish Gangs. Presumably more Kurds are in the pipeline as a part of
Washington’s promise to welcome additional refugees from Iraq in
“record numbers.”

Washington does not permit individual criminals to enter the US as
immigrants or refugees, and when they are discovered, they are
deported, e.g. Ethiopian torturer Kelbessa Negewo, who was repatriated
in 2007. Why then does the government allow FGM-practicing cultures to
enter America, where the custom is prohibited by law?

Finally, consider signing a petition to end Muslim immigration."

((P.S. You think this would continue if the so called "midwives" were
tied to a pole, covered in JP-8 and the declitted youngster were made
to take a lighter (maybe, a classic Dunhill engraved with some choice
Koranic inscription-naw, a Bic would be fine) and give her the light?
Doubt it. It stopped suttee, at least for a while. Bret.))