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Well the OP states 'men who abuse Asian girls'

yes true, I'll give myself 100 lines.........

"I MUST read the OP before putting my foot in my mouth"


Haven't been able to do that, though, for MANY years!

And qualified what he meant with his following words - a case heard this week.

All abuse should be treated exactly the same :-( :-(

I think that the most awful thing about the appalling abuse of FGM is that it is carried out against these little girls by WOMEN!

thanks Sharron for confirming that...........my hidden thoughts were that not ALL abuse is committed by men

It's carried out by women because it's what the men want. Men in that culture want their wives to be "cut". Women mutilate their daughters so that they will find husbands in a society where women are dominated and oppressed.

http://www.endfgm.eu/en/female-genital-mutilation/what-is-fgm/why-is-it-practised/

If the men didn't want their wives mutilated then it would stop in a generation.

Of course it won't. In a male dominated society the women do as they are told or get punished.

oops sorry Guin...........


I HAD posted..........

likewise, if the women stopped doing it............


which ain't gonna happen, methinks......

The women can't stop doing it. In that culture it is important for fathers to get their daughters married off so they stop being a drain on their resources. Men only want wives who have been "cut".

So fathers make their wives afflict FGM on their daughters. If they say no they get seven bells beaten out of them and the fathers get the grandmothers to do it. If they say no they get beaten as well.

It isn't that simple as the women saying no.

The law is the same for ALL,ethnic origines have no bearing at all ,Fred. :-|

FGM is still practised in Asian communities as well as African. It appears to be a mainly Muslim practise although if I´m wrong, I stand corrected.

it's a crime over here

It's a crime in Egypt but it's estimated that over 90% of Egyptian women have been subjected to this practice.

FGM predates Islam. It was a cultural practice before Islam was introduced. In parts of Africa Christians practice it as well.

wisechild, it's actually quite rare in Asian families.

Here is the distribution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_female_genital_mutilation_by_country

So if there are different sentences according to which girls they abuse, which girls will paedophiles focus on in the future? It doesn't take much working out does it? You end up with a bigger deterent for abusing Asian girls than for abusing British girls. Gives out all the wrong messages.

Paedophiles don't think they'll get caught. They focus on what they can find or get access to.

The authorities are running scared of the ethnic PC brigade! :-P

What happened to being equal in the eyes of the law?