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Thread ID: 12756 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2004-03-16
2004-03-16 14:50 | User Profile
Oh, what the desire for cheap labor brings! Here are Western countries now facing an influx of cultural practices that belong to mankind's darkest periods. Add to this, accompanying diseases, long considered dormant or eliminated, and we just might be looking into the face of the future. Those alarmists, who predict that the West will be brought down to Third World status, might know something, after all.
In Italy, an enlightened Somali doctor tries to cope with a tradition that should have been left behind in Africa. In "Doctor in Italy Tries to Ease Pain of an African Tradition," (2/1/04), Frank Bruni, in the [I]New York Times[/I], reports on scarred women who come for help to Dr. Omar Abdulcadir's gynecology clinic in Lorence, Italy. The women are immigrants from African countries, who, as girls, were forced to submit to the common ritual of genital mutilation or cliterodectomy. They all suffer from various chronic infections and inflammations.
Dr. Abdulcadir is requesting that his hospital allow him to perform a substitute operation on the daughters of these women, which might satisfy the ritualists. Otherwise, the girls will be taken to Africa to have their genitals cut in the traditional manner, which is not only unhygienic, but extraordinarily painful.
Needless to say, the whole subject is creating great controversy in Italy, with some Italians asking just how far Europeans are to bend, in order to accommodate the strange traditions of immigrants. Dr. Abdulcadir admits that his proposal is not an ideal one, and asks, "But is there a better answer for how to save the children?" Frank Bruni writes:
[I]Opponents have denounced the doctor's proposal, calling it an implicit endorsement of an unacceptable practice. . . . [/I]
[I]Italians' difficulties in coming up with an answer were reflected in the positions articulated by Cristiana Scoppa, a spokeswoman for the Italian Association for Women in Development, an education and advocacy group. [/I]
[I]She adamantly opposes Dr. Abdulcadir's proposal. "It would undermine the fight of hundreds of thousands of women throughout Africa who have said that no form of genital manipulation can be permitted and that it symbolizes a culture that submits women to the control of men," she said.[/I]
[I]But she also said she opposed a bill in the Italian Parliament that would explicitly criminalize genital cutting. She said that more general laws against violence covered the situation and that a law against genital cutting would represent "a specific attack against a culture." . . . [/I]
[I]It has become enough of a concern in Europe that Denmark, Britain and Sweden, for example, have enacted laws that expressly criminalize it. Broader laws in other countries also serve to ban the procedure. . . . "Whether they live in Italy or Britain or France or America, they don't want to let go of their traditions," [said Dr. Abdulcadir]. "So I'm trying to give them a way to save that tradition."[/I]
2004-03-16 20:28 | User Profile
If children are taken back to Africa to be mutilated, they should stay there. Beyond such steps, there is little to be done about such hideous practises. It would be best if the US and Europe were to colonize African nations so as to civilize them--in exchange for access to African natural resources--but that just isn't in the cards.
2004-03-18 00:57 | User Profile
Genital maipulation ? At least the Italians frown down on the immigrants , in this country we kiss their butt.
2004-03-18 07:51 | User Profile
Oh, what the desire for cheap labor brings!
Yep. Capitalism has done more harm to Whites than communism/socialism ever did, though few WNs will ever admit it.
[FONT=Arial Narrow]Please don't post any long, boring articles about the eviiils of communism. You are aware that Sen. "Tailgunner" Joe McCarthy was a delusional drunk who's partner in crime was the fag jew Roy Cohn, right?[/FONT]
2004-03-19 08:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kurt]Yep. Capitalism has done more harm to Whites than communism/socialism ever did, though few WNs will ever admit it.
[FONT=Arial Narrow]Please don't post any long, boring articles about the eviiils of communism. You are aware that Sen. "Tailgunner" Joe McCarthy was a delusional drunk who's partner in crime was the fag jew Roy Cohn, right?[/FONT][/QUOTE]
I agree with you, most of the European nationalists recognize the evils of capitalism, classic liberalism and individualism, while the American WNs not, in fact many of them praise the savage capitalism and they criticize the socialism, but the savage capitalism is the origin of the inmigrant/racial/ethnic problem in America and Europe. Don't were the black slaves (ancestors of those blacks that the WNs doesn't want in their neighborhoods) brought by some white capitalist to become rich in their exploitation (greedy capitalists that didn't take into account the consequences that would bring the arrival from those slaves to America)?
The culprits of the invasion of non-european immigrants to Europe and America are the same people that yesterday brought black slaves to the New World: the high capitalist bourgeoisie class.
My country is an example of that, the arrival of almost 5 million of non-european immigrant coincide with the rise to the power of the ultra-capitalist rigthwing Popular party (a party that is related with powerful industrial and agricultural lobbys), they are the only culprits of the arrival of 5 millions of African and South American Amerindians inmigrants in the last 5 years. They are guilty that now 6% of the population' of Spain is immigrant of non-european origins. And they will be the only culprits of all the future conflicts caused by the arrival of this population and of the contradictions that are inherent to the multiracial societies.