The UK's FGM Crisis: 500 Cases of Female Mutilation Identified in One Month in 2014 by Phyllis Chesler Breitbart January 27, 2015 Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Almost 500 cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) were identified by hospitals across the UK in just one month in late 2014. According to the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), fifteen cases were documented daily in the month of November. However, 25% of the HSCIC Trusts did not submit documentation. This suggests that the number of actual cases is much higher. FGM is not the same as male circumcision. FGM involved the deliberate total or partial removal of the female genitalia for non-medical reasons. The procedure makes urination painful; sexual pleasure impossible; childbirth torturous. It is a barbaric, tribal, and primarily African practice which can also lead to infertility, incontinence, infection, fistulas, and death. It has been estimated that 20,000 girls under the age of fifteen are at risk every year in the UK. This practice was outlawed in 1985; clearly, that has not stopped people from breaking the law in Britain. Despite the high number of known cases, only one prosecution is currently underway, the first of its kind. Contrast this with Egypt, where approximately 90% of women have been subjected to this atrocity. Egypt banned FGM six years ago. » CONTINUE READING Related Topics:  Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid

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