Bingo! ....Ginny, you' have raised the ultimate question Saint Cornelius
needed to have asked himself. Integration must come through dialogue
submerged in mutual respect; not as arrogant rounds of force-feeding
immigrants with the cultural diet of the administrators of power in all its
corrosive forms.

Cornelius, I will surely get back to this in a few days, perhaps!

Many thanks,
sidibeh


2006/11/26, Ginny Quick <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> OK, if you want to ban FGM, that is one thing, but has anyone considered
> that forcing girls to
> undergo an exam to "prove" that they've not had the practice done could be
> just as "violating" as
> the practice itself?  Let's just say she's undergone the practice, you
> want to make it worse by
> making her get examined to see the extent of the FGM?
>
>
>     And let's say she's not undergone the practice, now you want to force
> her to undergo an exam?
> To prove that she' snot been?
>
>
>     I can remember being a teenager / child, and I'd have definitely been
> self-conscience of my
> body, and I'd have been completely uncomfortable having people examine me.
>
>
>     So, in order to stop one harm, you're going to do antoher.  That's
> real nice.  And the only
> reason why this is even being entertained is because, presumably? an
> African said it.
>
>
>      What stops FGM is not forcing people to do certain things, it's
> education, I guess, or I
> hope anyway.  It's educating people about the harm, and about how their
> bodies work, and doing it
> in a culturally sensitive way.  I'd think.  But when you start forcing
> people to do things, when
> you criminalize things like this, it just goes underground and people do
> it anyway.  And even more
> so when you feel as though, rightly or worngly, people are attacking your
> culture.
>
>
> Ginny
>
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