Megyn Kelly compared <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender-surgery">transgender surgery</a> to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-genital-mutilation-soars-us-muslim-hank-berrien">female genital mutilation</a> that&#8217;s happening to young girls in radical Islamic communities, calling it a &#8220;form of abuse.&#8221;
During the Sirius XM &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; podcast Monday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly">host</a> spoke with political commentator Andrew Sullivan about the extremes of so-called &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; promoted by leftist groups. The two talked about surgeries on minors, including breast removal, mastectomies, and &#8220;genital surgeries&#8221; on children in their early teens.
&#8220;Fifty-six genital surgeries among patients ages 13-17 over the past few years, that&#8217;s horrifying,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-destroys-kim-kardashian-as-she-explains-why-reality-star-got-booed-at-rams-game">Kelly</a> explained, quoting a recent <a href="https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-trans-movement-is-not-about-rights-67e">article</a> by Sullivan. &#8220;On minors, on minors. As Abigail Shrier&#8217;s book calls it &#8216;irreversible damage&#8217; can happen just with hormones never mind surgeries.'&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/screw-her-megyn-kelly-blasts-olivia-wildes-attack-on-jordan-peterson-says-metoo-was-never-meant-to-bastardize-men">Kelly</a> then provided graphic details describing how a young girl effectively loses their arm when doctors &#8220;hack your forearm up&#8230;to create a penis.&#8221; She went on to explain how cross-gender hormones can allow a biological female to &#8220;grow a small penis&#8221; from their female body parts that &#8220;will not work the way a normal one works.&#8221;
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&#8220;Like something out of a horror film,&#8221; the host said. &#8220;None of this is understood by these girls being told, &#8216;yeah, yeah you&#8217;re a boy, you&#8217;re a boy.&#8217; And by the way gender dysphoria traditionally only affected males..not the other way around. So, all of this is alarming.&#8221;
Sullivan said some of the surgeries result in the inability to have an orgasm.
&#8220;To me, removing from a human, any human the ability to have an orgasm is such an invasion of someone&#8217;s sexual being,&#8221; Sullivan explained. &#8220;Of someone&#8217;s personal being. It&#8217;s not something you would do lightly.&#8221;
Kelly then brought the conversation back to Sullivan&#8217;s comments about genital mutilation.
&#8220;When we were talking about the genital mutilation, that&#8217;s what it is, either by hormone or by surgery and you were talking about the orgasm issue it reminded me of genital mutilation that is done in the radical Islamic population to young girls in the name of religion,&#8221; said Kelly.
&#8220;Andrew, this feels akin to that in some ways,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Where we are allowing parents to mutilate the genitals of these children&#8230;but it&#8217;s also a sort of form of religion, this like radical trans ideology of &#8216;my child has said it, therefore it is true. And I&#8217;m a bigot if I don&#8217;t take it to its extreme.'&#8221;
&#8220;Or even worse, the parents who start at ground zero refusing to accept a boy or a girl from a doctor in a nursery instead actually calling their child a &#8216;theybe&#8217; and saying &#8216;they&#8217;ll figure out their gender as they age,'&#8221; Kelly continued. &#8220;It is a form of abuse&#8230;I just see the two on parallel lines.&#8221;
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-vanderbilt-pediatric-gender-clinic-pausing-transgender-surgeries-on-minors">Vanderbilt Pediatric Gender Clinic Pausing Transgender Surgeries On Minors</a>

Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit 2018 – Day 2

Megyn Kelly Compares Gender Surgery To Female Genital Mutilation Happening In ‘Radical Islamic Population’

Megyn Kelly Compares Gender Surgery To 'Radical Islamic' Female Genital Mutilation

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Female Genital Mutilation

Megyn Kelly

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&#8220;Real Housewives of Dubai&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">star</a> Chanel Ayan recalled in therapy the terrifying childhood trauma she experienced as she and her sister were tied together as they &#8220;were circumcised.&#8221;
During a hypnotherapy session on the hit reality show this week, Ayan broke down while talking about the forced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-genital-mutilation-soars-us-muslim-hank-berrien">female genital mutilation</a> she said was done to her and her older sister which her mother didn&#8217;t know about, the &#8220;<a href="https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/chanel-ayan-female-genital-mutilation-housewives-dubai-interview-rcna43764">Today</a>&#8221; show reported in a recent piece.
&#8220;At 5 years old, my aunt and my grandma came to pick us up to take us to another town,&#8221; Chanel told the therapist. &#8220;And then the next morning at 6 a.m., I didn’t know where I was going whatsoever. Then they took us to this man’s house and they just tied us on the bed and we were circumcised.&#8221;
&#8220;We were tied in the legs,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Couldn&#8217;t pee. Couldn&#8217;t move. When we needed to pee, they would carry us and put us on the grass. I just didn’t understand what was going on whatsoever and my mom didn&#8217;t know that that was happening to us.&#8221;
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Real Housewives of Dubai <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RHODubai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RHODubai</a> star Chanel Ayan opened up about surviving female genital mutilation at 5. 
TODAY chatted with Ayan about why it was important to share her story and what’s to come for the rest of the season. <a href="https://t.co/MALVbhgebS">https://t.co/MALVbhgebS</a>
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Chanel told the therapist, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a lot of memories because I feel like I block things,&#8221; <a href="https://people.com/tv/rhodubai-recap-chanel-ayan-reveals-she-was-circumcised-at-age-5/">People</a> magazine reported.
She&#8217;s previously spoken in the past about how her father allegedly beat her and how there was &#8220;a lot of pain&#8221; in her home growing up.
&#8220;The crying, the sadness, the beatings,&#8221; Chanel shared. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I remember. A lot of pain.&#8221;
At one point, the Kenyan-born model said that after she met the man who would become her husband, Christopher, she went to a doctor so she could be sexually intimate with the man she loved.
&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t have sex,&#8221; Ayan shared. &#8220;And then I had to wait until I healed.&#8221;
The reality star also explained why she&#8217;s talking about something so personal and painful, hoping that stops others from going through what she did.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think our girls should be going through this,&#8221; Ayan said. &#8220;The reason that I&#8217;m talking about it is to bring awareness to it and I want people to understand this happens every single day. If I could stop it and if that&#8217;s my mission, maybe that&#8217;s what I should be doing.&#8221;

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‘We Were Circumcised’: ‘Real Housewives Of Dubai’ Star Recalls Terrifying Childhood Trauma

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On Friday, a Ugandan migrant living in London was found guilty of mutilating her 3-year-old daughter&#8217;s genitals, a sexist practice meant to tame females&#8217; sexuality common in some Muslim-majority countries in Africa and the Middle East.
The 37-year-old mom became the first in the U.K. to be convicted of female genital mutilation (FGM). According to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/world/europe/female-genital-mutilation-conviction-britain.html">The New York Times</a>, the victim&#8217;s father, 43, was cleared of all charges.
&#8220;Female genital mutilation has an appalling physical and emotional impact on victims that usually lasts their entire life,&#8221; said deputy chief crown prosecutor Lynette Woodrow in a statement. &#8220;A 3-year-old has no power to resist or fight back.&#8221;
The horrific practice is banned in Britain.
The little girl was &#8220;deliberately cut and her injuries amounted to F.G.M.,&#8221; according to prosecutors. Medical experts refuted the mother&#8217;s claim that the girl&#8217;s injuries were from a fall onto a metal line cupboard door in the kitchen.
&#8220;I come before thee today with tears in my eyes, fear in my heart,&#8221; the toddler&#8217;s mother wrote in her journal. &#8220;My mother, I made a choice in my life. With that choice I could be going to jail.&#8221;
The mother will be sentenced on March 8.
The guilty conviction is seen as a &#8220;landmark case,&#8221; signaling that the targeting of little girls will not be tolerated, noted University of Roehampton professor Aisha Gill.
Genital cutting was banned in the United States in 1996, but last year a judge in Detroit declared the law unconstitutional, thereby leaving such regulation up to states. As reported by the <a href="http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2018/11/20/female-genital-mutilation-michigan/1991712002/">Detroit Free Press</a>, the ruling led to the dismissal of FGM charges against two Michigan doctors and six others:
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The historic case involves minor girls from Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota, including some who cried, screamed and bled during the procedure and one who was given Valium ground in liquid Tylenol to keep her calm, court records show.
The judge&#8217;s ruling also dismissed charges against three mothers, including two Minnesota women whom prosecutors said tricked their 7 -year-old daughters into thinking they were coming to metro Detroit for a girls&#8217; weekend, but instead had their genitals cut at a Livonia clinic as part of a religious procedure.
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The<a href="https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/fgm/prevalence/en/"> World Health Organization</a> (WHO) reports that it is estimated that &#8220;more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation in the countries where the practice is concentrated.&#8221; The practice &#8220;has been documented in 30 countries, mainly in Africa, as well as in the Middle East and Asia.&#8221;
The United Kingdom is <a href="https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/migrants-in-the-uk-an-overview/">flush</a> with migrants. In 2017, for example, London absorbed 3.4 million foreign-born people, according to <a href="http://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/migrants-in-the-uk-an-overview/">Oxford University&#8217;s Migration Observatory</a>. The city&#8217;s first FGM case follows a series of other assimilation-related problems increasingly plaguing the city, including an onslaught of acid attacks &#8212; over 1,800 reports of such a crime since 2010. Notably, as reported by the BBC, &#8220;Since 2014 about 74% of investigations have been wound down due to problems with identifying perpetrators, or victims being unwilling to press charges.&#8221;
And in the U.K. more generally, there have been recent reports of so-called &#8220;breast-ironing&#8221; of developing girls. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42693/horrifying-african-tradition-ironing-developing-amanda-prestigiacomo">reported</a> Sunday:
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An African tradition of ironing young girls&#8217; breasts to stop development has hit the United Kingdom, a new report shows.
So-called &#8220;breast-ironing&#8221; entails taking hot stones to a girl&#8217;s chest, as you would an iron, in order to stunt her development. The painful practice may be done numerous times to a growing child, often on a weekly basis, depending on how each girl&#8217;s development is affected.
&#8220;Breast-ironing&#8221; is typically done by female elders in the girl&#8217;s family, such as her mother, with the supposed purpose of keeping unwanted male attention away from the child and curb the threat of rape and sexual assault, a report from The Guardian details.
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HORROR: Mother Found Guilty Of Mutilating 3-Year-Old Daughter’s Genitals, A First In The U.K.

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A Virginia imam is advocating for female genital mutilation, or FGM, despite the fact that the practice is illegal in the United States.
Imam Shaker Elsayed of the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, appears to believe that abusing women under the guise of religious purity codes is morally virtuous.
Mutilating a little girl’s genitals today can prevent “hypersexuality” in the future, says Imam Elsayed in a sermon to parishioners. After suggesting that the more extreme forms of mutilation may need to be avoided, the imam lectures his parishioners about seeking guidance from Muslim gynecologists familiar with the illegal procedure.
FGM is &#8220;the honorable thing to do if needed,” he preaches, detailing the supposed virtues of the horrifying practice. Imam Elsayed explains:
<blockquote>[Cut] the tip of the sexually sensitive part of the girl so that she is not hypersexually active&#8230;in societies where circumcision of girls is completely prohibited, hypersexuality takes over the entire society and a woman is not satisfied with one person or two or three.</blockquote>
The depraved talk was posted on YouTube and caught the attention of MEMRI, a watchdog group that monitors Islamist rhetoric around the world.
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“Elsayed’s comments during a lecture on child rearing and family life last month sparked a brief controversy last Friday after a right-wing watchdog group circulated a video clip of his speech online,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/06/05/virginia-mosque-embattled-after-imam-said-female-genital-mutilation-prevents-hypersexuality/?utm_term=.75c6be58eae5">reports</a> The Washington Post.
The Board of Directors at the imam’s mosque only condemned their religious leader’s comments Monday after the public began voicing outrage over the leaked video. Representatives of the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center added that the brutal practice of FGM violates both U.S. and Islamic law.
However, the mosque failed to acknowledge that FGM is not all that uncommon in the Islamic world.
“FGM is practiced throughout the world, with an estimated 200 million women and girls having undergone genital cutting as a coming-of-age ritual, typically under age 15,” <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/05/06/526766230/female-genital-mutilation-what-it-does-to-a-woman?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20170606">notes</a> NPR.
Shockingly, FGM is practiced with increasing frequency in the United States. The <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39662450">high-profile arrests of three FGM-practicing Muslim doctors in Michigan</a> recently introduced the topic back into the national conversation after complacency and naiveté fooled Americans into believing that such a horrific practice can only occur in third-world countries.
Cases of FGM in America have been skyrocketing, largely as a result immigration from FGM-practicing Muslim-majority countries like Somalia. The Daily Wire <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16729/female-genital-mutilation-soars-us-muslim-hank-berrien">reported</a> on the disturbing phenomenon in May:
<blockquote>The CDC states that the massive increase in the monstrous practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is “wholly a result of rapid growth in the number of immigrants from FGM/C-practicing countries living in the United States.” Virtually all of the countries listed by the CDC were dominated by Muslims.
And that’s not even including Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation. The author of the 2016 study asserted that if Indonesia were included, the number of victims would increase by “several tens of thousands.” Recently-retired CDC researcher Howard Goldberg told The New York Post, “Indonesian figures became available after we wrote our paper, but it turns out that FGM was much more common in Indonesia than had been thought.”</blockquote>
As Paula Kweskin, a human rights lawyer and producer of the film <a href="http://www.honordiaries.com/">Honor Diaries</a> points out, “In the United States, <a href="http://www.publichealthreports.org/documents/fgmutilation.pdf">507,000 women</a> are at risk or have undergone the procedure.”
In an <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/06/05/michigan-female-genital-mutilation-case-test-political-correctness-column/102310920/">op-ed for USA Today</a>, Kweskin argues that the country shouldn’t turn a blind-eye to FGM or worse, defend and excuse it, due to fears stemming from political correctness or so-called “Islamophobia.”
“Culture is no excuse for abuse. No religion or culture should be the impetus for hurting, mutilating or abusing anyone, and our children should be protected. For too long, FGM has been practiced under the radar in the United States. … My hope for all women and girls is that we will stand for equality,” writes Kweskin.
In an effort to sanitize the brutal practice, Islamist-apologists, <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/15707/dhimmi-new-york-times-refuses-use-term-female-michael-qazvini">rearing their ugly heads in such platforms as The New York Times</a>, have suggested that calling the mutilation of female genitals “mutilation” may be offensive to Muslims. Instead, these cultural relativists <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/15707/dhimmi-new-york-times-refuses-use-term-female-michael-qazvini">argue</a>, the practice should be referred to as “cutting.”
Below is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) <a href="http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/fgm/overview/en/">comprehensive classification</a> of FGM. It’s important to note just how much damage this practice can do to young girls. Decide for yourself whether this sort of “cultural” practice should be tolerated, much less excused:
<blockquote>Type I — Partial or total removal of the clitoris and/or the prepuce (clitoridectomy). When it is important to distinguish between the major variations of Type I mutilation, the following subdivisions are proposed:
Type Ia, removal of the clitoral hood or prepuce only;
Type Ib, removal of the clitoris with the prepuce.
Type II — Partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora, with or without excision of the labia majora (excision). When it is important to distinguish between the major variations that have been documented, the following subdivisions are proposed:
Type IIa, removal of the labia minora only;
Type IIb, partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora;
Type IIc, partial or total removal of the clitoris, the labia minora and the labia majora.
Type III — Narrowing of the vaginal orifice with creation of a covering seal by cutting and appositioning the labia minora and/or the labia majora, with or without excision of the clitoris (infibulation). When it is important to distinguish between variations in infibulations, the following subdivisions are proposed:
Type IIIa, removal and apposition of the labia minora;
Type IIIb, removal and apposition of the labia majora.
Type IV — All other harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non-medical purposes, for example: pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauterization.</blockquote>
As WHO explains, the practice cannot be seen as anything another than a traumatic assault on the female body and a violation of basic human rights:
<blockquote>Female genital mutilation has no known health benefits. On the contrary, it is known to be harmful to girls and women in many ways. First and foremost, it is painful and traumatic. The removal of or damage to healthy, normal genital tissue interferes with the natural functioning of the body and can cause several immediate and long-term health consequences. For example, FGM can cause excessive bleeding, swelling of genital tissue and problems urinating, and severe infections that can lead to shock and in some cases, death, as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of perinatal deaths.
Communities that practice female genital mutilation report a variety of sociocultural reasons for continuing with it. Seen from a human rights perspective, the practice reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women.</blockquote>
No society, let alone a post-Enlightenment Western democracy, should tolerate this shocking level of cruel barbarity against women. There is no excuse. There is absolutely no justification for abusing little girls. Period. It’s evil. It’s vile. It violates every precept we hold dear as a civilized society. By tolerating such intolerance, we forfeit our own humanity.
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance,” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance">wrote</a> Karl Raimund Popper. “If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”

Virginia Imam Says Genital Mutilation Of Little Girls Can Help Tame Their Sexuality. We Must Never Tolerate This. Not In America. Not Anywhere.

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The Minnesota Senate version of a bill passed by the Minnesota House that would punish parents who subjected their daughters to female genital mutilation (FGM) is <a href="http://m.startribune.com/minnesota-bill-against-female-mutilation-raises-opposition/423070383/">stalling</a> in the Senate because some members of Minnesota&#8217;s immigrant and refugee communities oppose it.
The House bill, introduced by Rep. Mary Franson, would make the crime a felony, with a concomitant loss of custody and a prison term ranging from five to 20 years. It would also increase penalties for anyone performing the procedure. Female genital mutilation has been illegal in the state since Minnesota passed legislation in the 1990&#8217;s.
On September 30, 1996, Congress<a href="https://www.reproductiverights.org/sites/default/files/documents/pub_bp_fgmlawsusa.pdf"> criminalized</a> FGM as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, writing, &#8220;Whoever knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of another person who has not attained the age of 18 years shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.&#8221; But the law was not enforced until recently, when a Detroit doctor was <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/15387/trump-justice-department-prosecutes-disgusting-hank-berrien">arrested</a> for performing the procedure. 
But even before that, Minnesota had addressed the issue, and in a more far-reaching way. In 1994, Minnesota was the first state to enact legislation related to FGM. The state amended its criminal code to declare &#8220;whoever knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates, in whole or in part, the labia majora, labia minora, or clitoris of another is guilty of a felony.&#8221; Thus the state did not limit the crime to female victims under the age of 18, but extended the range of victims to include all women.
But now, the Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage, a nonprofit titled Isuroon and other groups assert that the punishment for the crime in the proposed legislation is unduly harsh and thus parents from countries where genital cutting is common would not seek medical care for their children. The Senate bill&#8217;s author, Sen. Karin Housley, said she was considering delaying a vote on the legislation, adding, &#8220;We all agree this practice is absolutely horrible, and something needs to be done. How can we empower communities to address this practice from within rather than having Big Brother come down and say, &#8216;This is wrong&#8217;?&#8201;&#8221;
Franson said the Senate was &#8220;more concerned with perception than doing the right thing and protecting girls &#8230; Watering down the bill really does a disservice to the little girls who are in danger.&#8221;
In the House, 124 out of 128 House members voted for the bill, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, the country&#8217;s first Somali-American legislator.
Opponents of the bill argue that parents who come to the United States with girls who have already undergone the procedure could be punished because the bill mandates reporting to authorities by health care providers.
Brikti Hiwet, a reproductive health lecturer at the University of Minnesota and St. Catherine University, commented, &#8220;How can you protect children when you take them away from their families and put them in foster care?&#8221;
But Franson pointed out the language in the bill limits penalties to those residing in the United States when the procedure is executed. She concluded, &#8220;America is the land of the brave and the home of the free. Little girls who moved here from other countries have the right to be free from the oppression of female genital mutilation.&#8221;

Minnesota Senate Wavering On Bill Targeting Female Genital Mutilation Because Immigrant Groups Oppose It

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Mutilating the genitals of little girls with hopes that they will remain chaste is apparently a progressive push for gender inclusion. During a disturbing Wednesday night appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight, anthropologist and former United Nations consultant Dr. Fuambai Ahmadu argued just that.
Ahmadu, who chose to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) herself as an adult, downplayed the brutal surgery as a mere &#8220;nick&#8221; of the clitoris. The anthropologist even defended the two recent doctors brought up on charges for mutilating little girls via FGM procedures. Additionally, Ahmadu makes the outrageous claim that FMG, which she disingenuously refers to as &#8220;female circumcision,&#8221; are &#8220;gender-egalitarian surgeries.&#8221; 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t identify with the term FGM, with the term &#8216;mutilation,'&#8221; Ahmadu told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know anyone in my family who does or my community, and from over 25 years of research I have done in the field, I say the great majority of women who are affected by what I call &#8216;female circumcision practices&#8217; do not see themselves as mutilated.&#8221;
&#8220;When we use the term &#8216;female genital mutilation,&#8217; automatically, a certain image comes to mind,&#8221; Ahmadu continued, &#8220;an image that has really been put out there for over 30, 40 years, in the media, the mainstream media, obviously, through efforts and women&#8217;s groups. It is the idea of the most horrific type of procedure.&#8221; 
Ahmadu then went on to defend <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/15543/female-muslim-doctor-arrested-female-genital-hank-berrien">Dr. Jumana Nagarwala</a> and <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/15623/another-muslim-doctor-arrested-conspiring-female-hank-berrien">Dr. Fakhruddin Attar</a>, two Muslim doctors recently charged with mutilating the genitals of young girls. The former UN consultant claimed they merely performed a &#8220;nick&#8221; on the clitoris; this was disproved by a medical report which found the girls to be mutilated.
The woman continued, making the galling claim that FGM is actually just a sign of real gender inclusion and progress. Seriously. 
&#8220;We do remove the foreskin on boys; we do practice genital cutting here, in the U.S., on boys, then it lshoud not be impossible to understand that there are cultures, there are societies, that practice, what certain people are now calling gender inclusive genital surgeries,&#8221; she said. 
&#8220;In our culture, we don&#8217;t discriminate, we have gender-egalitarian surgeries. We do not discriminate,&#8221; she repeated. &#8220;We don&#8217;t discriminate.&#8221;
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FGM is a cultural practice associated with the religion of Islam which <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/12667/7-things-anti-trump-womens-march-should-have-amanda-prestigiacomo">seeks</a> to &#8220;void female sexual pleasure, intending to keep girls and women chaste and sexually pure, or to prevent adultery. It often leads to medical complications and is even linked to increased death in newborns.&#8221; 
Per <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/fgm-rates-have-doubled-us-2004-304773">Newsweek</a>, the barbaric practice &#8220;involves cutting the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. Depending on local customs, it could also include additional modifications ranging from cutting away part of the clitoris to removing the inner and outer vaginal lips before sewing the remaining skin together, leaving a small hole for urination and menstrual blood.&#8221;
As <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/04/former-un-consultant-whitewashes-female-genital-mutilation-as-gender-egalitarian-surgeries/">reported</a> by Daily Caller&#8217;s Peter Hasson, &#8220;Ahmadu worked at the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund in the early 2000&#8217;s as a &#8216;lead consultant&#8217; according to her Linkedin. She later worked from 2008 to 2010 at the National Institute of Child Health and Development, which falls under the US Department of Health and Human Services.&#8221;

WATCH: Tucker Carlson Takes on Former UN Consultant DEFENDING Female Genital Mutilation

Cultural relativism is perhaps the most morally perverted concept ever formulated in the academic left’s out-of-touch ivory tower. Under the banner of “tolerance,” the Left is willing to condone cultural and religious practices that would make Satan himself blush. Nowhere is this truer than when the Left obfuscates the truth about female genital mutilation to avoid offending Islam. The vile practice, carried out by certain sects of Islam, is objectively evil. Anyone with a beating heart knows instinctively that FGM, or female genital mutilation, is child abuse. To think otherwise requires an unfathomable amount of leftist indoctrination and “multi-culturalism” brainwashing.
Cue The New York Times.
On Friday, the “newspaper of record” whitewashed the brutality of the misogynistic practice by substituting the term “cutting” for “mutilation,” suggesting that the term FGM was “culturally loaded” when asked by <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/23/nyt-tiptoes-around-feelings-of-people-who-mutilate-little-girls/">The Daily Caller</a>.
“There’s a gulf between the Western (and some African) advocates who campaign against the practice and the people who follow the rite, and I felt the language used widened that chasm,” <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/23/nyt-tiptoes-around-feelings-of-people-who-mutilate-little-girls/">wrote</a> Times science and health editor Celia Dugger.
Dugger justified her political decision to minimize the utter brutality of FGM by citing her personal experience witnessing the practice performed in Africa.
Here’s what Dugger said when challenged by a Times reader:
<blockquote>I began writing about this back in 1996 when I was an immigration reporter on the Metro desk covering the asylum case of Fauziya Kassindja. I decided in the course of reporting that case — especially after a reporting trip to Togo, her home country, and the Ivory Coast — to call it genital cutting rather than mutilation. I never minced words in describing exactly what form of cutting was involved, and there are many gradations of severity, and the terrible damage it did, and stayed away from the euphemistic circumcision, but chose to use the less culturally loaded term, genital cutting. There’s a gulf between the Western (and some African) advocates who campaign against the practice and the people who follow the rite, and I felt the language used widened that chasm.</blockquote>
As The Daily Caller notes, the Times, as a whole, may be following Dugger’s lead.
“Dugger has apparently pushed the editorial direction of the The NYT to follow her lead. The only time ‘female genital mutilation’ appears in an April 13 report from NYT reporter Jacey Fortin on the Michigan doctor is in a statement from an acting assistant attorney general within the Department of Justice,” reports The Daily Caller. “Otherwise the piece uses Dugger’s preferred term ‘cutting.’”
During the golden age of the Islamic caliphs, Muslim overlords had a name for non-Muslims who obsequiously followed the law of the land and paid vast sums of taxes in exchange for protection against indiscriminate slaughter. That word was “dhimmi.”
Today, no other word describes the so-called journalists at the Times better. The ethical negotiations that are taking place in Manhattan in order to appease the easily-offended Muslim community would be funny if they weren’t so incredibly sad.

DHIMMI: New York Times Refuses To Use Term ‘Female Genital Mutilation’ To Avoid Offending Muslims

Muslim Immigration

Radical Islamic Terror

Now that the precedent has been set for arresting doctors who have performed horrific female genital mutilation (FGM) on young girls with the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/15387/trump-justice-department-prosecutes-disgusting-hank-berrien">arrest</a> of Detroit emergency room doctor Jumana Nagarwala last week, another Muslim doctor in Detroit and his wife have been arrested for conspiring with Nagarwala as she performed the barbaric acts. Doctor Fakhruddin Attar and wife Farida were arrested Friday for conspiring to commit and aid in female genital mutilation [FGM] of girls as young as six-years-old.
The <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/345883002/Attar-Complaint-0#from_embed">criminal complaint</a> from the DOJ alleges that Nagarwala&#8217;s acts were performed in the Attar&#8217;s Burhani Medical Clinic (BMC) in Livonia, where Mrs. Attar, described as an &#8220;office manager,&#8221; held the hands of the girls screaming in pain.
The complaint alleges:
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This investigation has identified other children who may have been cut by Nagarwala at Attar&#8217;s clinic, BMC, between 2005 and 2017, including children in Michigan. On April 10, 2017, child forensic interviews employed by the FBI and HSI interviewed several minor girls in Michigan. In these interviews, multiple minor girls informed forensic interviewers that procedures had been performed on their genitals by Nagarwala. One minor girl said that Farida was present during the procedure performed by Nagarwala.
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As <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/04/21/two-more-doctors-arrested-in-michigan-for-performing-female-genital-mutilation-on-girls-n2316460?platform=hootsuite">Townhall</a> reported, &#8220;According to wiretapped conversations between Nagarwala and Mrs. Attar, Nagarwala advised parents to deny knowing about FGM should they be asked by federal law enforcement authorities.&#8221;

Another Muslim Doctor Arrested For Conspiring In Female Genital Mutilation

Detroit

Remember that female Muslim doctor in Detroit who was the first doctor arrested in the United States for practicing female genital mutilation? Appearing in court, she defended her barbarity by <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/04/19/doctor-arrested-for-genital-mutilation-defends-the-practice-as-religious-n2314889">claiming</a> it was a &#8220;religious removal&#8221; and was not mutilation at all.
Dr. Jumana Nagarwala was arrested and charged last week with allegedly performing female genital mutilation on girls as young as six. One seven-year-old, according to the <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/345088042/Nagarwala-Complaint#from_embed">criminal complaint</a>, could barely walk after the procedure, and felt pain all the way to her ankle.
The criminal complaint alleges Nagarwala performed the FGM procedures in a &#8220;medical clinic&#8221; outside of the hospital. The complaint also states that the young girls were told they were being taken on a &#8220;girls trip.&#8221; After they arrived, they were told they needed to go the doctor for a &#8220;stomach ache&#8221; and FGM was performed to &#8220;get the germs out.&#8221;
After Nagarwala&#8217;s arrest, Acting Assistant Attorney General Blanco <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/15387/trump-justice-department-prosecutes-disgusting-hank-berrien">said,</a> &#8220;According to the complaint, despite her oath to care for her patients, Dr. Nagarwala is alleged to have performed horrifying acts of brutality on the most vulnerable victims. The Department of Justice is committed to stopping female genital mutilation in this country, and will use the full power of the law to ensure that no girls suffer such physical and emotional abuse.&#8221;
According to the <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/">World Heath Organization</a>:
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women.
Procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of newborn deaths.
More than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where FGM is concentrated1.
FGM is mostly carried out on young girls between infancy and age 15.
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Nagarwala is being held without bond because she is considered a flight risk. She could face life in prison.

Female Muslim Doctor Arrested For Female Genital Mutilation Of Small Girls Says It Was A ‘Religious Removal’

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice took the first step in stopping the monstrous practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the United States, announcing that the federal government has charged female doctor Jumana Nagarwala, M.D., of Northville, Michigan, with mutilating girls between the ages of six and eight.
The DOJ <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/detroit-emergency-room-doctor-arrested-and-charged-performing-female-genital-mutilation">stated</a>:
<blockquote>Jumana Nagarwala, M.D., of Northville, Michigan, is charged with performing FGM on minor girls out of a medical office inLivonia, Michigan. According to the complaint, some of the minor victims allegedly traveled interstate to have Nagarwala perform the procedure. The complaint alleges that Nagarwala performed FGM on girls who were approximately 6 to 8 years old. This is believed to be the first case brought under 18 U.S.C. 116, which criminalizes FGM. Nagarwala was arrested and is scheduled to appear in federal court in Detroit this afternoon.
“According to the complaint, despite her oath to care for her patients, Dr. Nagarwala is alleged to have performed horrifying acts of brutality on the most vulnerable victims,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Blanco. “The Department of Justice is committed to stopping female genital mutilation in this country, and will use the full power of the law to ensure that no girls suffer such physical and emotional abuse.”
“Female genital mutilation constitutes a particularly brutal form of violence against women and girls. It is also a serious federal felony in the United States,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel Lemisch. “The practice has no place in modern society and those who perform FGM on minors will be held accountable under federal law.”
“The allegations detailed in today’s criminal complaint are disturbing,” said Special Agent in Charge David Gelios. “The FBI, along with its law enforcement partners, are committed to doing whatever necessary to bring an end to this barbaric practice and to ensure no additional children fall victim to this procedure.”</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2017/04/13/detroit-doctor-mutilated-genitals/100416124/">The Detroit Free Press</a> reported, “According to criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit, two of the victims&#8217; parents brought them to the clinic from Minnesota &#8212; pretending it was a &#8216;special&#8217; girls trip &#8212; and later told the girls to keep what was happening a secret.”
Nagarwala <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/04/13/doctor-charged-genital-mutilation/100416734/">was arrested</a> Wednesday night; in her court appearance on Thursday she wore a veil that covered her head, neck and shoulders.
<blockquote>“The practice has no place in modern society and those who perform FGM on minors will be held accountable under federal law.”
Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel Lemisch</blockquote>
A spokesman for The Henry Ford Health System admitted Nagarwala works for the hospital system. Health System spokesman David Olejarz said, “The alleged criminal activity did not occur at any Henry Ford facility. We would never support or condone anything related to this practice.”
The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office said this is the first such criminal case in the country.

Trump Justice Department Prosecutes Disgusting Doctor Who Performs Female Genital Mutilation

Department of Justice

Michigan

On Monday, an Ethiopian man was deported after serving ten years in prison for slicing off his two-year-old daughter’s clitoris with a pair of crude scissors at the family’s Atlanta apartment in 2001.
“Khalid Adem, 41, was imprisoned in 2006 after he became the first person in the U.S. to be convicted of female genital mutilation — a ritualistic practice common in certain parts of the world, but widely condemned in western countries,” <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ethiopian-man-deported-cutting-daughter-genitalia-article-1.2999498?cid=bitly">reports</a> The New York Daily News.
Adem was charged with aggravated battery and cruelty to children. The case was so horrific that it prompted the state of Georgia to pass legislation barring the cruel practice, adding an extra layer of safeguards to existing federal law.
While ICE officials rarely comment on individual cases of deportation, Adem’s case in particular is especially disturbing.
&#8220;A young girl&#8217;s life has been forever scarred by this horrible crime,&#8221; <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ethiopian-man-deported-cutting-daughter-genitalia-article-1.2999498?cid=bitly">said</a> Sean Gallagher, a director with ICE. &#8220;The elimination of female genital mutilation/cutting has broad implications for the health and human rights of women and girls, as well as societies at large.&#8221;
Female genital mutilation is irreversible. The primitive procedure, still practiced among Muslim-majority tribal societies in Africa, including Somalia, and syncretic, animist Christian sects in Ethiopia, is designed to ensure that young girls never grow up to enjoy sexual stimulation as women. It’s a practice grounded in misogyny and control, carried out by elders, even women tasked with preserving the status quo of patriarchal domination over women’s bodies.
Documenting the personal stories of various victims, ABC News explains the sheer depravity of the practice. “There are four types of FGM, according to the <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/">World Health Organization</a>. They range in severity from removing parts of a woman’s genitals to infibulation (sealing closed the vaginal opening),” ABC <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/underground-american-woman-underwent-female-genital-mutilation-forward/story?id=39728421">reports</a>. “According to the WHO, FGM complications range from bleeding and infection to problems with childbirth and increased risk of death for newborns.”
The CDC <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/underground-american-woman-underwent-female-genital-mutilation-forward/story?id=39728421">reports</a> a three-fold increase of FGM across the United States since the 90s. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/underground-american-woman-underwent-female-genital-mutilation-forward/story?id=39728421">The risk of FGM is increasing</a>, thanks to the influx of predominately Muslim communities from Somalia and other Islamic countries.
<blockquote>The primitive procedure, still practiced among Muslim-majority tribal societies in Africa, including Somalia, and syncretic, animist Christian sects in Ethiopia, is designed to ensure that young girls never grow up to enjoy sexual stimulation as women.</blockquote>
Why haven’t more reporters tracked this troubling practice, shedding light on instances of depraved misogyny within the United States? The fact is, the brutal practice of female genital mutilation is often inextricably linked with the religion of Islam. Leftists have different standards for non-Christian, non-White, non-Western demographics. Therefore, all instances of wrongdoing, no matter how barbaric, committed by peoples that fit into this nice checkbox of “victimized groups” are blurred, obscured, or altogether erased.

Ethiopian Man Deported After Genitally Mutilating His 2-Year-Old Daughter With Crude Scissors

Somalia

Linda Sarsour, the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York who was co-chair of the Women&#8217;s March protesting against Donald Trump, <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour">calls herself</a> a &#8220;racial justice &amp; civil rights activist.&#8221;
Right.
Sarsour is the same woman who tweeted one of the most vile attacks on a woman in the history of Twitter in 2011, when she targeted the heroic and outspoken champion of Islamic women seeking freedom, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Hirsi Ali was forced to suffer female genital mutilation when she was five years old in Somalia. Sarsour tweeted this:
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After the 9/11 attacks, Hirsi Ali reexamined Islam, which she publicly renounced in 2002. She soon received death threats, but she countered by running for Parliament in the Netherlands in 2003, where she won a seat in the Dutch Parliament. The consistent death threats, especially the assassination of Theo Van Gogh, for whom she had written the script for Submission, forced her to go into hiding.
In 2006, she urged the prevention of Iran developing nuclear weapons. In 2015, she said of Islamic State, &#8220;It&#8217;s wrong for Western leaders like (former Prime Minister of Australia) Tony Abbott to say the actions of the Islamic State aren&#8217;t about religion. I want to say to him &#8216;please don&#8217;t say such things in public because it&#8217;s just not true.&#8217; You&#8217;re letting down all the individuals who are reformers within Islam who are asking the right questions that will ultimately bring about change.&#8221;
Christopher Hitchens called Hirsi Ali &#8220;the most important public intellectual probably ever to come out of Africa.&#8221; In 2008, she was awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize, an international human rights prize for women&#8217;s freedom.
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&#8220;I wish I could take their vaginas away.&#8221;
Women&#8217;s March Co-Chair Linda Sarsour, on Brigitte Gabriel and female genital mutilation survivor Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Of course Sarsour hates Hirsi Ali; Sarsour <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/21/womens-march-organizer-recently-met-ex-hamas-operative-has-family-ties-to-terror-group/">posed recently</a> with an accused financier for Hamas, the terrorist group. She has <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/263651398250545152">tweeted</a>, &#8220;Nothing is creepier than Zionism.&#8221;
Conversely, Hirsi Ali has <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Books/Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali-on-Israel">stated</a>:
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The crisis of Dutch socialism can be sized up in its attitudes toward both Islam and Israel. It holds Israel to exceptionally high moral standards. The Israelis, however, will always do well, because they themselves set high standards for their actions. The standards for judging the Palestinians, however, are very low. Most outsiders remain silent on all the problems in their territories. That helps the Palestinians become even more corrupt than they already are. Those who live in the territories are not allowed to say anything about this because they risk being murdered by their own people.
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