My Sweden: Sweden’s 38 000 mutilated girls

[Rhinodawg]

The Swedish welfare agency Socialstyrelsen estimates that some 38 000 girls have already been subjected to severe mutilation of their private parts, with another 19 000 being “in danger” of the procedure.

The procedure is the removal of parts of the female anatomy, so that no pleasure can be derived from sex as an adult. The procedure is usually done with a razorblade or simple knife without anasthesia. More info on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, can be found on WHO and Wikipedia.

This barbaric practice is common in Africa and has followed the tide of immigration to Sweden. FGM is of course illegal, but since Sweden has a knee-jerk response to drop anything questioning the religious customs of any immigrant, virtually no enforcement or tracking is in place to protect the girls. The report linked above is an estimate, since noone has the guts to actually address the issue. When local health workers try to sound the alarm about the rise in FGM, the decision-makers wring their hands and start mumbling about “personal integrity” to avoid the risk of being portrayed as “racist” in the media.

http://swedenreport.org/2015/01/16/swedens-38000-mutilated-girls/

[Rhinodawg]

1. Makes me sick to even think about it.

Spent at least 20 summers in Sweden... pure heaven.

WTF happened to that country ?

[seveneyes]

2. Why are there not at least 38,000 cutters in prison serving life for this butchery?

That might help curb future child abuse.

[Rhinodawg]

3. Suicide by Political Corectness.

[DetlefK]

5. Because they are relatives of those under-age children.

Sometimes the children are sent to Africa "on vacation with relatives" and mutilated there.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. Sweden has instituted laws that will prosecute cutters,

Even if the cutting happens outside of Sweden.

I read some of the links. The blogger seems to be twisting the facts of Swedish response.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Because it's an estimate of how many refugees and immigrants will have been mutilated before

they come to Sweden.

The link goes to (translation):

38,000 women and girls in Sweden can be genitally mutilated

More knowledge is needed ii care in order to receive genitally mutilated girls and women and provide them with good care, according to a new report from the National Board.

National Board of calculations based on UN Children's Fund estimates of the prevalence of FGM in 27 African countries.

Female genital mutilation is prohibited in Sweden since 1992 and the estimate of girls and women who könsstympades before they came to Sweden. The calculation also shows that about 7,000 of the 38,000 girls under 18 years.
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The Board has also made a statistical estimate of how many girls could be at risk of genital mutilation and landed on 19 00 girls. The Authority notes that it does not mean that everyone runs a real risk. The calculation is based on the number of girls under 18 years old with a mother born in a country where FGM is common.

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The blogger does his best to make it sound as if it happens in Sweden.

[Starry Messenger]

4. That blogger is a real peach.

Sure seems to have a hard-on for "leftists", feminists and other progressives in Sweden.

So sorry he's exiled there.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. FGM is a serious problem, but this blogger twists the facts of Swedish response.

I looked at some of the links, (google-translated) ....I get the message that Swedish agencies do NOT "wring their hands and mumble" about political correctness.

From what I read, there is a concerted effort on the part of Swedish gov't, social and school agencies to stop the practice, even extending efforts to protect girls who go home to Africa during the summer, by putting the strength of Swedish law on the side of parents.

I've seen other right wingers claim to be concerned about girls when really, they seem more interested in lying and bashing gov't and the advancement of feminism.

Like the outrage I see among righties against Islam and its treatment of women. They always sound like only nuclear attacks on the offenders will satisfy them, and "protect" the women the wingers "care about" so much.

Systemic change never impresses them. Not shocky-n-awe-y enough, I guess. Only instant gratification will satisfy them.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Claims 'no evidence' of FGM in Sweden

There is no evidence that Female Genital Mutilation is being carried out in Sweden, the country’s National Board of Health and Welfare is set to claim this month in its first report on the practice.

“We don’t have any indications that it’s taking place in Sweden,” Malin Ahrne, one of the report’s authors, told The Local. “A lot of the immigrants from these countries are actually opposed to continuing this tradition.”
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In the past the Board has refused to give any estimates, reporting only that there were roughly 40,000 women from high-risk countries living in Sweden.

http://www.thelocal.se/20150103/no-evidence-fgm-taking-place-in-sweden-report

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