>Twitter has been slammed after a tweet promoting female genital mutilation (FGM) on children was viewed more than 30,000 times. A Muslim group calling itself Dawoodi Bohra Women for Religious Freedom posted a tweet last week justifying 'khafz' - or female circumcision - on young girls. The tweet featured a video of group member Arwa Sohangpurwala saying: 'My daughters have also undergone khafz, and they're growing up as perfectly as other children of their age.
>'As a mother, I can never do anything to harm them.' Despite FGM being illegal in the UK, with a penalty of up to 14 years, the group paid Twitter to 'promote' the tweet, so it showed up on the timelines of users who didn't even follow their account. Twitter users immediately slammed the controversial ad. Esmael Omar wrote: 'Speak for yourself woman. Don't speak on behalf of innocent girls. 'FGM is FGM no matter how you want [to] sugar coat it. Leave alone cutting - even touching the female genitalia of a girl is still child abuse.
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>The Dawoodi Bohra Women for Religious Freedom group - a branch of the Shi'ite Muslim community - promotes female circumcision and claims it has been 'wrongly classified as female genital mutilation'. It also claims the procedure involves 'removal of a speck of superficial skin, a simple gentle process in which there is negligible, if any, pain'. However, the World Health Organization classifies the smallest form of skin removal as type 1 FGM. Unicef estimates more than 200 million women have undergone FGM procedures worldwide.
Yet we still routinely mutilate baby boys. What a sad double standard.
Nolan Price
>Leave alone cutting - even touching the female genitalia of a girl is still child abuse. God damn this makes me so angry. Why are women put on such a pedestal? No one thought twice about mutilating my dick.
Joshua Wright
I'm sure even IGM becomes illegal before MGM. That said, I'm against all forms of GM.
Dylan Cooper
I'm sorry for your loss user. Male genital mutilation needs to be outlawed but the government doesn't want to upset (((them)))
Leo Flores
I'm one of the lucky ones, my foreskin was too hard to properly circumcise for some reason so they left a good part of it, including enough to cover most of the base, intact. But the tip of my head is really fucked up with friction burns and callouses. It hurts every time I pee.
Jaxon Reed
If your foreskin is still intact you can likely stretch it over the head over time. Jewish men would do this mong the romans to not stand out which is why it was later said that they must scrape off all remnants of the foreskin. It's very barbaric.
Jayden Flores
>um sweetie you can't compare male circumcision and FGM. in FGM they cut off the clit and sew up the vagina. It would be like cutting off your entire penis. It's done to control female sexuality and subjugate women by dehumanizing them. Male circumcision is the removal of just a useless piece of skin, and it is not and never has been about controlling men or their sexuality.
>also I've never heard a man complain about being circumcised. circumcised men are fine, that's why they support doing it to their sons. FGM is different. no FGM survivor supports FGM and no woman would do that to her daughter. Also unlike FGM, male circumcision is a religious practice and must therefore be protected
So what do exactly do they do to their genitals? Do they cut off the entire libia and clit, or do they sow something up or what? Is it the equivalent of a male circumcision
Easton Hill
Why tho? Unnecessary surgery is unnecessary.
Jacob Watson
Khafz is partial removal of the clitoral hood. It's actually not as bad as circumcision.
Blake Clark
They make a cut in the clitoral hood to partially expose the head of the clitoris. It falls along the lines of the category of FGM Type 4, or arguably 1A.
>Is it the equivalent of a male circumcision
In terms of physical damage it is much less extreme than male circumcision.
Daniel Rivera
So what is the exact reason that mgm remains legal in the entire world but fgm is outright banned in all forms? I assume it's because mutilating psychos can hide behind the very dubious "health benefits" of forcibly cutting off an infant's body part.
Justin Ward
What is with Abrahamic religions and genital mutilation? Why not cool body scarification instead? Or is that too pagan?
Because they're designed to cause emotional and physical harm and as a show of devotion towards their preferred deity. Nothing's more personal and sacred to a person than their genitals.
Connor Kelly
Because in the past female jews know if they were raped and he wasn't circumcised, they could abort
William Watson
I mean you are right, but circumcision is still wrong
Jaxon Fisher
Almost everything I wrote there is egregiously wrong. I was being sarcastic.
Ian Moore
Robots not being able to see such over the top sarcasm causes me physical pain.
Ethan Ortiz
I know but you are still more or less right lol
Austin Morales
Robots? Why'd you refer to robots in the third person? Is it perhaps, because this is another thread made by the (probably gay and from /lgbt/) anti-circumcision discord shill group? Just a thought
Easton Russell
I didn't use third person. It's called a plural you cuck.
Brayden Morales
Plural and third person are not mutually exclusive. You literally used the third person, and by the fact that you chose to avoid this point and could only muster up a point you know is wrong basicallly proves my point for me. Can you faggots go away? What is it with every group of retards with a chip on their shoulder coming to shill on r9k?
Elijah Jenkins
Im raging at this
Parker Cox
They are mutually exclusive. I can be a robot and refer to other robots as robots. You don't have to be a part of some discord group to feel an innate discomfort over your own peers not getting something that's clearly mocking the stupidy of toasties, and not agreeing with cutting off a child's penis doesn't make you a shill Mr. Shekelburg.
Adrian Carter
I tried to skip out on penis inspection day because I had foreskin and I knew they'd find out. But American schools really, REALLY don't want anyone to skip penis inspection day. I had an easier time trying to get out of taking standardized tests. With those all I had to do was hide in the bathroom. On PID, security guards and cops guard every door, and are fully armed. Why do they care so much about my penis?! I almost got away but one cop blew off my leg with his shotgun and then they took me to the operating room...
