"“All the jurisprudents, since the advent of Islam and for 14 centuries or more, are in consensus that female circumcision is permitted by Islam. But they were divided with regard to its status in shari’a. Some said that female circumcision is required by shari’a, just like male circumcision. Some said this is the mainstream practice, while others said it is a noble act. But throughout the history of Islam, nobody has ever said that performing female circumcision is a crime. There has been a religious ruling on this for 14 centuries.”
Muhammad Al-Mussayar, Islamic scholar at Al-Azhar University,
the most prestigious and influential institution in the Islamic world"
http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/05/10/sanctioning-barbarity-american-academy-of-pediatrics-and-the-new-york-times/

Severin,
The reason I advocate stopping the immigration of the people of those cultures that practice FGM is that I believe new arrivals 'refresh' the cultural practice and thwart or efforts to eliminate it.

I think the same applies to other alien cultural issues. Take the extreme hatred that exists between the Croats and Serbs as an example. That type of hatred is totally alien to us and as fast as our society begins to water the hatred down, new arrivals refresh the old hatreds. This is even more so when we have multicultural advocates preaching that it is fine for immigrants to carry on their former cultures. It seems that MC advocates do not see the baggage of some cultures or if they do, they accept it and expect us to accomodate it.

There are some alien cultural aspects we should never accept and FGM is one of the foremost. Sadly it appears that our politicians and the public turn a blind eye and condone FGM.

The malevolent affliction of torture, abuse and mutilation based assault against children is the mainstay of your cowardly and diseased australian society. The torture of children by mutilating their genitals is performed for the SOLE purpose of adults enjoying inflicting serious harm of children, while at the same time using the ritual as a smoke-screen to delude themselves that they are morally decent and somehow not harming children.

Mutilating the gentitals of children is sick, insane and obviously child abuse, yet you all "debate" the matter as if there is anything left to decide.

This is another PROOF that australian society decrees children to be sub-human abuse slaves. All one has to do is ask "would an adult who was grabbed of the street and forced to have his genitals mutilated be seen the same way?"

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I note that with the arrival of "Seer Travis", this thread has finally reached its target market.

Congratulations Proxy. Your devotion to anti-Islamic rhetoric has finally paid off.

Pericles,
It will take me some time to look at your arguments, analyse the pros and cons of your refutations and follow your logic to see how you've come to your interesting conclusions.
I'll get back to you.

Pericles,

I don't know what to say about that situation but the original theory does not seem to have been debunked. I sure hope your wrong because Proxy would have a very enthusiastic supporter if you are right.

Seer Travis,

I have a feeling that we won't fully relate to each others perspective but perhaps I could understand yours better if it was unpacked more.

You appear to be rather negative about psychiatrists, lawyers, and the family unit. I am curious as to how you think things should be. Is there any country that you think would be a good role model and if so why?

You are critical of the discssion to date. You do realize that noone condones FGM? Some express a helplessness in trying to get action. However if children were dragged off the street and subject to FGM I doubt there would be any problem getting officials to take action. Only a tiny proportion of parents would enjoy harming their children. Irrespective of religion I'm sure parents virtually universally want to protect their kids from harm. The problem is those who don't view it that way and instead believe it to be a religious obligation.

In any case as I have said I suspect protecting daughters isn't the motive of this thread.