Raise awareness to fight female circumcision

Female circumcision has got to end. And consequently I do not believe in male circumcision either. But that is another subject. Female circumcision is an attempt to rob women of their sexuality. A woman’s sexuality is very powerful. So it has to do with robbing women of their power. And of course this is going on all over the world in obvious and not so obvious ways. Let’s get the word out any way we can that this will not do! We as women must work to help other women and enlightened men will realize that by robbing women of their power they are impoverishing themselves and their culture. It is not a spiritual elevation but rather a descension into a dark hellish place. A hell on earth. It must end.

Yah….we still need to talk about it and keep the topic at eye level. Pray for revelation of the truth that needs to replace the lies that the people living with this culture tradition believe in. Pray for wholeness and healing, healthy living for all peoples that practice female genital mutilation. It is much more prevelant than you think. For those who are living with this tradition, know that it is a lie of satan that it is needed. Women are made in the image of God just like the man and women’s bodies are to be honored and treated with love and care, not ever hurt or damaged in any way. Men and women would have more intimate and loving marriages if their bodies were kept whole because there wouldn’t be pain to separate and damage. Stop spreading satan’s lies, death and darkness…look for the truth and the life. Look to God for guidance and direction, ask Him what you should do.

Keep working to make it known, keep up conversations…pray, don’t forget.

Have your told the story to someone else and prayed about writing a letter or just pray to ask God to help and interceede or for others to be able to go and help. Have you prayed for these little girls? Have you prayed for these women who need to change their views and beleifs of culture so that they will understand it is not the right thing to do to their children.
Have you prayed for the lives of those women who live with this torture daily? Have you prayed for it to STOP!!??

Have you prayed at all? What is stopping you?
Don’t forget to talk to God about this injustice and to ask what you might be able to do. Pass it on.

Female Genital Mutilation
Definition

Female genital mutilation (FGM), often referred to as “female circumcision”, comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for cultural or religious reasons. This procedure is performed on females ranging from infancy to adolescence.

150 million women are victims of FGM. Every year 2 million girls are added. In Ethiopia 87% are circumcised, Djibouti 99%, Eritrea 98%, Somolia 98%, Sudan 95%. FGM can result in: extreme pain, shock from blood loss, gangrene in vulva tissues, tetanus from unsterilized equipment. Death can result from hemorrhage, blood poisoning and acute urinary retention. The nations where FGM is preacticed have the highest mother mortality rate in the world. For the average girl, there is no use of anesthetic or sterilized instruments in this procedure.
Personal Impact Story

“Be brave girl! You are a Somali woman!” her aunty commands. Strong hands pin her to the floor. Rough hands spread her legs. Screams pierce the air as a shard of glass expertly slices away immature womanhood. Thorns are all that this poor family has to stitch up the gaping wound. A hole the size of a matchstick is left for urination and her menstruation in coming years. The operation is complete as they rub in a paste consisting of herbs, milk, eggs, ashes and dung. The perfect chastity belt is created.

“Be brave girl!” Don’t cry and he will like you”, her mother advised. It is the night of her wedding. She had caught the eyes of the local butcher. It had been arranged quickly. He was 39 and she was 14, but he paid well. As the music blared outside, he came to her. He was rough and thrusting. She was scared. It hurt. Her vaginal opening was too small. Lie still! She faints as he slices her open. In the morning she regains consciousness. He is gone. She looks down. There are bloody sheets. Her blood. She is re-stitched with a larger hole to allow easy access. The butcher continues to come to her until life begins in her womb.

“Be brave girl!” You may have a son”, the midwife encourages. She is 15 now and proud to be able to give birth. Contractions seize her slight frame. She screams. The child is obstructed. Her vaginal scar prevents the butcher’s child from coming. She must be opened. Again her vaginal scar is sliced open. She is able to keep conscious this time. She pushes and finally out comes a girl. “Oh well, no need for celebrations”, the butcher thinks. It is just another mouth to feed. As an afterthought the mid-wife picks up needle and thread. The girl must be re-stitched. She needs to be tight for her husband once again.

So the brave girl develops into a brave woman. By her seventh child there is no more skin to stitch. But she bore the butcher three sons. Tomorrow her daughter comes of age. She will get up early and gather the women. Her first-born will be another brave Somali woman.

Our bodies are to be treated as temples. 1 Cor. 6:19

PRAY

that God would give revelation that every part of a woman’s body is clean and created for a purpose that the church, educators and the media would work towards the elmination of this custom for the release of missionaries to minister to these womenACT

Discuss with three friends the implications of FGM. Let your ambassador to the United Nations know of your concern.

All documentation, writing and photo copied from “Voice of the Voiceless” by Susi Childers

The women of many countries in Africa, the middle east and spreading into other areas of the nations are mutulating the young women’s bodies. They are held down and cut up..deep and with rusty knives and sometimes just lids off cans or something that will saw the skin. This is not put forth by the men of these cultures any longer, it is held strong by the elder women who have gone through this tradition and live by it and pass it on. The women grow and live with pain the REST OF THEIR LIVES. It does not go away with the healing…there is never a real healing. The women cannot have an acceptable sexual experience, ever after this proceedure. Christians, Muslums and other beliefs are not exempt to this misunderstanding. It is a way of life ONLY because it is tradition and the lack of knowlege. Please look it up, pass on the news, let the world know about it so that those people who are in positions to help will step in and get the news out. We need people to go speak, to teach, GO TELL THEM that it is not required to do this anymore..it never was. Men who marry these women often have to go elsewhere for sexual satisfaction because they love their wives dearly and cannot put them through the pain of intercourse. They do only have relations for the purpose of having children and I don’t have to tell you what pain that causes the women who are scarred and living with painful skin that could never heal properly or the insides were removed as well and it cannot ever heal or get over the pain of urination.

Look it up, pass on the news…talk about it. Go learn about it and then inform people. We have to make it stop!
Do you want your little sister or your daughter to go through this pain and humiliation??? Then how can we let other little girls go through it?????

of my book. Especially bad in Africa and I thought it was important to inform readers, as well as entertain.