Female circumcision a problem in Britain

[PlatyPius 5]

To be shocked that it happens a lot in Britain, you'd also have to be assuming that most of the people in Britain are British...

[homesick_american 1]

To be shocked that it happens a lot in Britain, you'd also have to be assuming that most of the people in Britain are British...

Most of them are.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1312

[Toshtishtash 1]

To be shocked that it happens a lot in Britain, you'd also have to be assuming that most of the people in Britain are British...

Most of them are.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1312

I'd love to know where exactly they got those statistics from

[featherB 1]

To be shocked that it happens a lot in Britain, you'd also have to be assuming that most of the people in Britain are British...

Most of them are.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1312

I'd love to know where exactly they got those statistics from

From the national census, according to the bottom of the page.

[homesick_american 1]

To be shocked that it happens a lot in Britain, you'd also have to be assuming that most of the people in Britain are British...

Most of them are.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1312

I'd love to know where exactly they got those statistics from

It's your tax money at work. Actually it was probably mine too. I think Wikipedia has a better breakdown but that's from the 2001 census, prior to 10 new countries joining the EU in 2004 so their stats will be off. Remember that is the country's average; London's at least 20% foreign-born.

[Jasman0717 9]

Why would anyone do that

[almaty 19]

it is a sad fate and primitive in all aspects

it is a sad fate and primitive in all aspects

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

To be shocked that it happens a lot in Britain, you'd also have to be assuming that most of the people in Britain are British...

Most of them are.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1312

I'd love to know where exactly they got those statistics from

It's your tax money at work. Actually it was probably mine too. I think Wikipedia has a better breakdown but that's from the 2001 census, prior to 10 new countries joining the EU in 2004 so their stats will be off. Remember that is the country's average; London's at least 20% foreign-born.

Most of the foreign born in London are from Oz, NZ, South Africa and Poland. Probably not practising female circumsision

[homesick_american 1]

To be shocked that it happens a lot in Britain, you'd also have to be assuming that most of the people in Britain are British...

Most of them are.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1312

I'd love to know where exactly they got those statistics from

It's your tax money at work. Actually it was probably mine too. I think Wikipedia has a better breakdown but that's from the 2001 census, prior to 10 new countries joining the EU in 2004 so their stats will be off. Remember that is the country's average; London's at least 20% foreign-born.

Most of the foreign born in London are from Oz, NZ, South Africa and Poland. Probably not practising female circumsision

Most likely not, but I'm not griping about the UK's foreign population. Since I no longer live there I don't really care.

[Toshtishtash 1]

Maybe it just seems like more than the statistics are saying then.... It is way too small here... I can't wait for some space!

Well... I don't know any 'clit choppers' anyway.

[Anna C. 4]

People like Ayan Hirsi Ali and Waris Dirie, victims of that brutal "tradition" themselves, try to educate women, doctors and people in general in those countries. Still the first step is to punish parents draconian - if they are citizens I'd jail them for the rest of their lives, if they just have a green card/equivalent I'd sent them straight back to their countries but keep their poor children.

I remember when such a case was revealed in Munich back in 01-06, a young girl collapsed in a supermarket and people insisted on an ambulance (mother was quite against it), it turns out she collapsed because of a serious infection, caused by female mutilation (of course they used something dirty, like a piece of glass, it's terrible!!!!). I didn't expect it to happen in Germany among the immigrant community, but it did! I was quite shocked!

[JessiPooh 0]

I saw a special on TV with African models who had this gastly tradition performed on them. I cried throughout the documentary. Very sad indeed.

Edited July 11, 2007 by JessiPooh

[homesick_american 1]

I saw a special on TV with African models who had this gastly tradition performed on them. I cried throughout the documentary. Very sad indeed.

It's pretty horrible; unfortunately it has happened here in the USA too and I hear there have been several cases in Canada.