Well this could be construed as her doing damage control, before she recreates herself for an American audience. Are there any main stream media publications in Dutch or English that corroborate her explanation? That is to say, are there any disinterested third parties that can corroborate her story?
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I actually do speak Dutch (well I read it lol). Do you have any sources? I just know the way it was covered in the Dutch media.
I have never laughed harder at anything I have read on the internet. My jaw hurts.
I didn't say you were white, I said you have a white savior's magic ability to understand African women's lived experience. Letting go of your first world privilege in these situations is hard, I understand that hearing a different perspective can be a cause to lash out. But maybe instead take a second and try to…
How many times on this page have I written that FGM is horrible and should be stopped? Just go through my posts and count how many times I've done it. That is my home work assignment for you.
I am not claiming it is fantastic, but just that for many, many women who experience fgm they don't go on to have life-long pain. They are able to menstruate and give birth without complications. FGM is horrible and unnecessary, but the way it is depicted by Western NGOs you would think that the women of Ethiopia and…
See unlike you I actually care about these issues because as a feminist I care about women. You on the other hand are happy to be fuled by your hatred of others (which apparently includes Muslims).
Yes it is an incredibly harmful practice, it should be stopped. That doesn't mean the way it is depicted by western organizations often has little to do with the way fgm is actually experienced by the women that undergo it.
And yet you somehow have a white saviors magic ability to understand and be one with all the women of Mother Africa? Now, that's cute.
I mean she admitted that she made up the facts of the forced marriage and that she made up the fact that her parents were religious conservatives that didn't want her to get educated (they actually really wanted her to go to university because they saw how bright she way). Also the Dutch press pretty spectacuarly…
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Actually she lied about most of the facts about the arranged marriage as well. Like for instance, her family actually wanted her to go to university and thought she was too young to get married. Her mother wanted her to go to university. Ayaan thought that maybe getting married could get her into Europe and then…
I am not for FGM at all. But I also understand that those awful things you describe don't happen to all women. Ethiopia isn't a nation of women limping around in agony. Its an awful unnecessary practice, but the way it is described is not reflective of the lived experience of all the women that are forced to undergo…
Yes agreed, but activism+pity = white savior complex. I'm all for helping make sure that we are all the people who make the decisions about our bodies, but let's do it in an as non-neo-colonial manner as possible.
And yet why does it not happen in Pakistan or Bangladesh or Afghanistan or among the 50 million Muslims in China or among Bosnian Muslims and why even in heavily Muslim African Niger 90% of women do not undergo FGM. Is it because possibly the reality is more nuanced than your understanding? Could it be that for most…
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Yes but that doesn't change the fact that Ayaan Ali Hirsi gave testimony admitting to lying on her asylum application, the exact same lies that form the basic sketch of her life as found in the biography. If I had access to youtube at work I'd find the video where admits point by point the lies she had told.
I'm not sure why its more associated with Islamic nations as it is just as common in Christian Ethiopia as in Muslim Somalia and as common among Christian Nigerians as Muslim Nigerians.
I will note that somehow in the Hanafi fiqh, the Hanbali fiqh, the Maliki fiqh and the Jafari fiqh (and other Shii practice) the hadith you cite does not exist. That covers over 80% of all Muslims. This is not part of "Islam" because "Islam" is not a monolith. The majority of girls that suffer FGM are Christians, if…
I have no idea about the circumcision, and if she did go through that I completely sympathize with her over the unnecessary brutality of what was done to her body without her consent. However before people go to her biography and start absorbing her hateful lies, I thought I should point out that she admitted to…