Are all cultures really equal?

Police and health authorities fear that 25,000 British girls are at risk of genital mutilation.

African immigrants are clubbing together to pay for practitioners to fly to Britain and circumcise their daughters in highly secretive rituals.

Police believe that the trend has developed among parents who do not have passports or cannot afford to return to their home countries to have their daughters circumcised, a brutal practice that remains commonplace throughout Africa.

The procedure is generally performed by elderly women, in unsterilised conditions with no anaesthetic. Children as young as five have parts or all of their clitoris or labia removed. Some have their vaginas sewn up or the flesh shrunk with corrosives.

In Britain, female circumcision — or female genital mutilation (FGM) — is illegal, and carries a maximum sentence of 14 years’ imprisonment. The penalty has, however, failed to halt the practice, with thousands of young girls taken abroad each year for that purpose. There has never been a prosecution, although it has been an offence since 1985 with the introduction of the FGM Act. Since 2003, taking a child to another country to have it done has also been an offence.

Female circumcision among the African community in Britain has been commonplace for years but the wider population has been unaware of it. Now, however, police, social services and health workers have become concerned. They believe it to be widespread, with about 25,000 young girls remaining at risk in Britain, according to the Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development (Forward).

Diversity… had enough of it yet?

If all cultures are equal then this can’t be a bad thing? Ask that the next time you hear someone saying all cultures are equal.

It is obvious to anyone that there are inferior cultures and this is just one example. The culture of the west is vastly superior to other cultures.

This law obviously is unworkable because the victim won’t tell anyone what is happening so the law needs to be changed to ban any circumcision practitioners from even entering the country. If they are even suspected of being one then they will be deported without appeal. Those parents that are trying to get their child circumcised will be jailed and then deported. There will be no appeals on deportation.