Which Hamadi is being referred to here? Just curious.

Thanks,

Hamadi.


>From: Movement for the Restoration of Democracy in Gambia
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>Subject: Re: Female circumcision; My View.
>Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 22:31:21 EDT
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>What about abortion and death penalty/execution? God, help us with the
>selective choice of words, some of us have been conned to use, even against
>our selves...Female Genital MUTILATION..what? What do we call male
>circumcision? Male Genital Decapitation. Are you guys aware of the Movement
>to banned Male circumcision? It's sad that some of us, instead of reasoning
>with our brethren that practice this form culture, tradition, religion or
>whatever one wants to call it, we decided on the reversal role of blaming
>ourselves as uncivilized, barbaric, inhumane and all the crap nonsense. My
>question to you, if the cap fits, where the hell on earth were you the past
>two decades, when more females were circumcised than currently exaggerated
>by
>these no-good Liberators/Westerners knows best. Do you JJC's suffer from
>selective myopia or amnesia on this issue, even though you were born and
>raised in the Gambia? We have to start reading between the lines when these
>so called saviors come knocking on our doors, on the pretext of
>salvaging/educating/civilizing us from our traditional/cultural practices,
>as
>seen from their own perspective. In the eyes of many foreigner's to Africa
>and Africans, it's only recently, that we, Africans, became 'civilized'
>instead of the usual negative/subliminal connotations attributed to, and
>believe by some of us Africans [backward, savages, cannibals]. This changed
>as we, Africans started leveling the plain field, by learning, mastering,
>competing them in their art, craft and science of myth-making and reality.
>The solution is, either we collectively educate/empower [as Hamadi did] the
>families and or practitioners of female circumcision, or shut up and stop
>being forceful hypocrites.
>A friend of mine recently send her daughter home, after a lot of debate on
>"culture clash" vis a vis, the husband Wollof and wife Mandingoe; to
>circumcised or not to [as the grandmother wished]. Upon seeing the
>granddaughter the first time in her life, the grandmother accepted the
>reality that the fifteen year old girl's mode of thinking and
>understanding,
>is that of a competitor and focused determinant on being a doctor someday,
>the grandmother turned out to be more supportive of the child's education
>and
>well being, infact threatened a neighbor, for mentioning circumcision to
>her
>granddaughter.
>
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