In some places in the world women are still legally butchered via the act of circumcising the clitoris (genital mutilation)
According to yahoo news Immigration Minister Chris Evans said he was “willing to consider directly intervening ” in the case of Grace Gichuhi, 22, and Teresia Ndikaru Muturi, 21 two Kenyan women who fear they will be circumcised if forced to return home.
They have been in Australia since July last year after attending the Catholic World Youth Day and have exhausted their avenues under Australian law to apply for asylum here as our current laws do not offer them protection.
I can not believe that the word “consider” was even used!
Gichuhi said her mother had been killed by members of the Mungiki sect for refusing to have her clitoris cut off, and she also feared death in the crude operation.
“They use a knife. Just a knife, no medicine,” she told Fairfax newspapers.
“They circumcise you and maybe you die.”
Muturi said she was sold for 10 cows to marry a 70-year-old man and would also be circumcised against her will if forced to return.
Yet the Australian government is still “considering” what to do about it?
In my opinion it is easy – these girls are here, these girls need protection and Australia needs to give it to them. What do YOU think?
Tags: circumcising the clitoris, female circumcision, genital mutilation
now see, this sort of stuff just does not add up
Kimpowell – dumb indeed – I am feeling somewhat ashamed of the Australian government right now I do not understand how anyone could even contemplate returning these girls to their homeland.
Nothing Profound – I too like to think I am tolerant of other cultures customs, but not when it involves abuse and mutilation. If these girls wanted to go through with it whilst I do not condone it as an adult I feel they have that right – but as they do not want it it is clearly a violation of their human rights and as such they need protection.
Thank you both for your comments
What a strange and cruel world we live in when posts like these need to be made in the first place – it should have been simple – these girls are in danger so lets give them sanctuary
If it was their left arm that was to be cut off, or a foot, the Government would grant them asylum immediately. But because it’s about “female parts” they don’t want to know about it. “It’s a cultural practice” they say, but in Western culture in the past, women weren’t allowed to own property and we’ve realised how dumb that is.
Incredible that anyone thinks such practices aren’t barbaric. I’m tolerant of different culture’s customs and beliefs, but some things are pretty hard to swallow.