The West continues to import abusive practices that are committed in the name of Islam. Wife-beating (Quran 4:34), covering of women (Quran 24:31, 33:59), sex slavery (Quran 33:50) and FGM (Reliance of the Traveller e4.3) are all sanctioned Islamic practices, not to mention receiving the short end of the stick in divorce and inheritance cases. Despite such abuses, the U.K. has yielded to a two tier system to include shariah courts and has curbed free speech to not offend Muslims.
Western leaders continue their willful blindness, despite grim realities:
Girls are being pressured to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) in British playgrounds, a survivor has warned…..Dr Leyla Hussein, who underwent the procedure when she was seven years old in Somalia, said pressure was being put on children by their peers as well as relatives.
Western nations should have long ago established a zero tolerance policy for any practice that is inconsistent with its principles. This includes banning the niqab — which is a security threat — and rejecting encroachments on the freedom of speech. Instead, a zero tolerance policy is aimed at those who call out Islamic abuses against girls, women, infidels, apostates, etc. Now, to attempt to deal with the problem:
Officers and social workers have been stationed at British and American airports, and on the Eurostar this week as part of a transatlantic operation to prevent families taking children abroad for FGM and help survivors.
This transatlantic operation is to be applauded, but the full range of other abuses that are being committed in the name of Islam also needs to be recognized, called out and opposed.
“Authorities launch operations at UK and US airports in transatlantic operation to catch perpetrators and help victims,” by Lizzie Dearden, Independent, September 6, 2018:
Girls are being pressured to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) in British playgrounds, a survivor has warned amid an international crackdown on the practice.
Dr Leyla Hussein, who underwent the procedure when she was seven years old in Somalia, said pressure was being put on children by their peers as well as relatives.
“Some of my clients are 19-year-old girls who were children or were born in this country, and they will say they were pressured in a playground in a school in London to go and have it done,” she added, urging people in affected communities to confront the idea of FGM as a “tradition”.
“We really have to be forceful in protecting children, and unfortunately I will be upsetting people but I personally don’t care if I’m going to upset some community leader….we cannot tiptoe around it.”
Officers and social workers have been stationed at British and American airports, and on the Eurostar this week as part of a transatlantic operation to prevent families taking children abroad for FGM and help survivors.
An estimated 500 people were spoken to at Heathrow Airport on Thursday alone after arriving on flights from countries where the practice is prevalent, and similar operations are taking place at Gatwick, Manchester and Luton.
The operation, codenamed Limelight, has also been carried out at New York’s JFK Airiport after American authorities signed a “proclamation of interagency support” for FGM investigations with the UK.
Operation Limelight: The FGM unit operating in Heathrow Airport to intercept families taking their children to be mutiliated
Signatories including the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), Metropolitan Police, Border Force, Crown Prosecution Service, British Transport Police, FBI, and the US Department of Homeland Security.Officials hope to enhance their understanding of FGM and improve the law enforcement response by sharing intelligence on travel patterns, trends and live cases.
Leethen Bartholomew, head of the National FGM Centre, said the crime must be recognised as child abuse and a human rights violation.
“Our work with law enforcement agencies on Operation Limelight, both from the UK and the US, is raising awareness that this practice is illegal in the UK and that it is against the law to take a girl overseas to be cut,” he added.
“Our focus is engaging with passengers travelling to and from countries where this crime is carried out. By talking to them we hope to educate families as well as highlighting the support available to those who may be at risk.
“We hope the high profile nature of the operation will dissuade anyone who may be considering having FGM carried out.”
The Independent attended a previous Operation Limelight sweep at Heathrow in January, when a survivor who underwent FGM in Sierra Leone was among the air passengers stopped.
“It was painful, so painful, there was blood everywhere,” she recalled. “There were other people watching in the room. They were singing their own songs. They were happy when they were cutting me.”
She said her family believed FGM was “decency”, adding: “When you’re with your man you are clean if you do that, that’s the mentality.”…