[N_Fiddledog]

[N_Fiddledog]

Speaking of other articles and opinion pieces considering this story here's one from the Spectator:

Does America oppose female genital mutilation – or not?

$1:

Now America has come to one of its stumbling moments in the prosecution of this crime. Two doctors from Michigan have been charged (alongside six others) with mutilating at least nine girls. This is the first attempt in the US to prosecute anyone for this crime. As the Detroit Free Press reports:

‘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.’

But a judge in Detroit has dismissed the charges against the doctors because he has accepted an argument put forward by the defense that the country’s FGM laws are in fact unconstitutional:

‘The judge’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’ weekend, but instead had their genitals cut at a Livonia clinic as part of a religious procedure.’

US District Judge Bernard Friedman ruled that ‘as despicable as this practice may be,’ the US Congress did not have the authority to pass the 22-year-old federal law that criminalizes FGM, and that it is for the individual states to regulate the matter.

‘Oh my God, we won!’ was the reported reaction of the lawyer for the accused. It will now be for the government to decide whether to appeal the judge’s decision. A number of other charges, including conspiracy and obstruction still remain. But those lawyer’s words speak to something far beyond this one individual case: to the whole difficulty countries like America are having facing up to the nature of this crime.

FGM. OMG. Here is where barbarism and modernity meet, and try to work out if they can’t get along together just fine.

https://spectator.us/america-female-genital-mutilation/

[PublicAnimalNo9]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The doctor and the parents involved should be lynched if the fucking courts aren't going to protect the children.

Pitchforks, torches, trees, ropes.

Take hot curling irons covered in Vaseline and shove them up their asses.

[llama66]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The doctor and the parents involved should be lynched if the fucking courts aren't going to protect the children.

Pitchforks, torches, trees, ropes.

Take hot curling irons covered in Vaseline and shove them up their asses.

That's fucking barbaric.





Those bad-boys go in dry. Blood is a great lube.

[BeaverFever]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

FFS Does anyone actually READ the articles before commenting??

The judge didn’t say FGM is ok, he just said it’s state, not federal jurisdiction No different than murder, rape or most other crimes against individuals.

This is a matter of civil rights and that's a Federal matter as well as a state matter.

That wasn’t the question before the judge. He didn’t throw out a civil rights charge or the civil rights law. He threw out a federally-made criminal law that is not federal jurisdiction.

[BeaverFever]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

More right wing Bullshit nobody defeds FGM ir claims it’s “culture”, least of all the Left.

[newz]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

nobody defeds FGM ir claims it’s “culture”

BS the lawyers for these "doctors" certainly defended FGM. Why? Because of culture. Do I have to drum up old news where religion and culture were the defences first responses?

"least of all the Left."
Bwahahhaha if not for the tolerant left none of this shit would be going down in the west.

[BeaverFever]

newz newz:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

nobody defeds FGM ir claims it’s “culture”

BS the lawyers for these "doctors" certainly defended FGM. Why? Because of culture. Do I have to drum up old news where religion and culture were the defences first responses?

"least of all the Left."
Bwahahhaha if not for the tolerant left none of this shit would be going down in the west.

Once again you don’t have the facts straight.

AFAIK the lawyers didn’t defend FGM at all, let alone based on culture. And at any rate it’s a lawyer’s job to defend criminals. They challenged the constitutionality of federal jurisdiction.

So yeah drum up the old news please, especially the part where “liberals” supposedly side with them.

And your “If not for the tolerant left” bullshit is just that....bullshit