Friday, November 23, 2012

Barbarians: It Happens At Night

Dateline: Egypt-new and improved post-Mubarak Egypt of course....

It Happens At Night 

Female Genital Mutilation continues unhindered in Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of girls are mutilated every year, and nobody cares. These are barbaric practices of a barbaric nation. 

"I still remember asking myself how my family could do this to me..."

The mutilation of girls is offered as a sort of health service, free of charge says Mervat Tallawy, president of the National Women's Council for Egypt. A few weeks ago, she learned about the Muslim Brotherhood using buses as mobile clinics in the rural Minia province.

"That's child abuse and a barbaric act," Tallawy says with disgust.

"But as long as the Egyptian president doesn't explicitly condemn such actions, the fundamentalists are going to carry on and lead us back into the Middle Ages. I have no idea where their hatred for women comes from."

Strangely, I do.

Say a prayer for Egyptian girls.

"I still remember asking myself how my family could do this to me..."

Hug your children and protect them from barbarism with all your might and with every tool at your disposal.