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The Somali community in Minnesota is still practicing female genital mutilation, despite an over thirty year old state law as well as federal action prohibiting it.

Young girls in Minnesota are suffering irreversible harm in silence, even though state law has called the act a felony for more than thirty years. Female genital mutilation—cutting or removing parts of a girl’s external genitalia for cultural reasons—continues inside tight-knit Somali immigrant families, shielded by shame, family pressure, and official reluctance to look too closely. Despite a documented survivor population in the state and a national estimate exceeding half a million affected women and girls, Minnesota prosecutors have secured zero convictions.

Laws on the books have never been enforced. Doctors, who are required to report abuse (and make no mistake, taking a razor blade to a girl’s genitals is abuse) are not doing so. The State of Minnesota does not track cases and the prohibitions against it have rarely-to-never been enforced.

So yeah, tell me again and cry me a river about how Somalis in the US are ‘enriching our culture’ when all they have brought is grift and barbarism.

The only bright point is they generally stay in their own colonies and don’t infect or infest other groups with their ‘culture’.

From Sir Charles James Napier regarding India’s custom of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands:

“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs” (Napier 35)

I think Napier had the right idea. These girls are in our country and the full weight of the law should be brought against anyone who aids and abets this travesty.

I’ll take the dog-loving, bacon-eating, free speech culture I was raised in over any other, any day of the week and twice on Sundays.