A little while back I wrote a post on attempts by feminists in the UK to sell the narrative that FGM is a widespread, global practice and not restricted to certain cultures. It seems this campaign has rubbed off on someone in the government:
It’s almost as if eradicating the practice isn’t a priority.
(Via Old Holborn)
Notice the Government/NSPCC co-branding.
Notice the Government/NSPCC co-branding.
Indeed: public-private partnership in action.
Why does the man in the ad not have a mullet haircut and a beard? They’ve chosen actors that could just about be construed to be RoPers but just as easily not. How typically disingenuous.
The chap looks the spit of my former GP. Should I be worried?
Patrick:
My thoughts exactly. The little girl might be from (Muslim) Eastern Europe, or – just about – North Africa or Iran. But actually, she looks like a lot of little girls with indigenous British parents. That bloke, though. He could be a liberal arts academic, couldn’t he?!
I would dearly love to know how they decide these things. “No, not that one. She looks too dark, and you know the memo said we mustn’t do anything to confirm the prejudices of the deplorables. But not blondes; that would be seen as taking the piss…”
“I would dearly love to know how they decide these things. “No, not that one. She looks too dark, and you know the memo said we mustn’t do anything to confirm the prejudices of the deplorables. But not blondes; that would be seen as taking the piss…””
Yes its ironic that the ‘anti-racists’ will be behaving pretty much exactly in the same manner as the actual racists of yore – using skin tones to decide who gets what…………
They’ve chosen actors that could just about be construed to be RoPers but just as easily not.
In the history of Islam and indeed mankind, no girl looking like the one in the photo has ever been subjected to FGM.
Notice the Government/NSPCC co-branding.
NSPCC has form on this. They had a poster campaign years ago making the clear statement that children were most at risk of abuse from their natural fathers, when stepfathers and mother’s boyfriends are massively more likely to abuse them.
Just another Proggie group against the family and Western values.
That reminds me of the “AIDS is not Prejudiced” poster campaign from the late 80s. What tosh.
I notice they don’t put “never having an orgasm” in the list of risks – perhaps that tells us something about the authors.
Years and years ago, a woman who claimed she was a nurse, told me casually — she certainly was no friend of mine and I never saw her again, thankfully — that she earned money on the side from Our New Friends by doing these ‘operations’
The kicker was it was the mothers and grandmothers and probably aunts that arranged it on the basis it had been done to them so why should anyone escape it?
But I suppose a scarf-clad woman holding up a child as in the picture makes it all too obvious, right?
The guy in the photo certainly looks like an incipient Tory voter. That’s grounds for suspicion before they start.
@Watcher
Correct. it’s the mothers and other female relatives that perform this barbaric practice.
There was a good article in Readers Digest (1999), where supermodel Waris Dirie described what happened to her and the debilitating consequences
“It’s almost as if eradicating the practice isn’t a priority.”
well, it’s basically impossible. This campaign is just about reassuring white people that the government is doing something, and that immigrants are all lovely.
And why is it a man?
As pointed out, sponsored jointly by his mohammeds government and the national society for the promulgation of cut clits.
I would give serious money to get inside the head of one of these people, even for five minutes. How can anybody sane, rational and with even a single atom of self awareness believe what these people do. Where does self loathing like this come from?
@ Pcar
I winced at every line of that description. Much the same, I guess, as a guy would wince at a similarly graphic depiction of castration (yeah, I know it’s not exactly equivalent). But the kicker footnote is that, although it’s the female family members who preside over the practice, it’s because the menfolk in those societies demand a bride who is demonstrably a ‘virgin’. And what better proof than she’s been so sewn-up as to be inviolable? I can’t even begin to imagine, post marriage, how penetration occurs. Is it akin to applying a battering ram to an unyielding door? Gawd, I wish I hadn’t gone down this rabbit hole.
I keep seeing these ads in gents’ lavatories – saw several today, actually. What I find hilarious is the idea that the obvious target ethnicity is going to be bother to read them and pay attention to the message or (the posters being in English) that they actually can read them in the first place. And “our girls”? Really?
Government/charity sector virtue-signalling partnership, that’s what it is.
This really smarts.
The government – who apparently has no qualms about male genital mutilation – telling the only group who isn’t a risk to cut up baby girls that they should stop cutting up baby girls.
Sometimes I really hate this timeline.
Ok, I’m getting consecutive all-gay cruise advertisements, complete with burly men in swimsuits, and no, it’s got nothing to do with anything I’ve been googling. How am I ever going to mail-order a Ukranian bride while chatting online with real Asian women?
Tim, I think about six consecutive rugby/cricket-only posts are called for. It’s the only thing that might restore balance to the Force.
Every day now you see something that makes you think “How can the Western Establishment not be overturned by force today”?
AndrewWS o
“I keep seeing these ads in gents’ lavatories – saw several today, actually. What I find hilarious is the idea that the obvious target ethnicity is going to be bother to read them and pay attention to the message or (the posters being in English) that they actually can read them in the first place. And “our girls”? Really?”
Andrew, you are the target audience. They are not being made to stop FGM, they are made to cower the indigenous culture and remind you one culture is completely protected, but you are not.
They are insidious beyond measure. The Eck’s solution to all those involved in their production.
Hector Drummond
“Every day now you see something that makes you think “How can the Western Establishment not be overturned by force today”?”
Yes, this.
It’s a shame that the government is not run by serious people. If it were, muslim girls would be examined every year by a non-muslim GP and any girls that were found to have been mutilated would have the adults in their immediate family hanged in the village square. The practice would totally die out within 12 months or even better, all muslims would flee the country.
@Mr Black
Reminds me of a quote by (I think) the British governor of India, when the British decided to stamp out the ancient practice of widow-burning. That is, the widow throws herself on the funeral pyre of her husband in an act of extreme devotion, much like an 11-year-old muslim girl might willingly impale the flesh of her genitalia on a sharp instrument.
““Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”
That said, even such an extreme reaction by British law would not stamp out the practice, and might not even reduce it by very much. Pakistani parents would simply send their daughters to the old country to visit their aunts for a few months, and would be shocked, shocked when they came back mutilated.
@David Moore
“You are the target audience”
Absolutely agree. Reminds me of Theodore Dalrymple’s insight that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to inform or convince, but to humiliate.
“Pakistani parents would simply send their daughters to the old country to visit their aunts for a few months, and would be shocked, shocked when they came back mutilated.”
Not a problem, just prosecute the parents anyway. All children of the relevant ages to be examined on a term by term basis, strict liability offence – your daughter shows up at school having been genitally mutilated (by who and where irrelevant) then the parents get done and expelled from the country when they’ve served their time. The only ‘problem’ is that the Jews would have to stop their bit of officially sanctioned genital mutilation as well, which would be a good thing anyway.
Jim
Male circumcision is not the same thing.
Cutting off a flap of skin does not equate to the excision of the clitoris. As someone who was snipped at the age of 31, I think I have enough practical experience to make that statement.
“As someone who was snipped at the age of 31, I think I have enough practical experience to make that statement.”
So you made an adult decision to have cosmetic surgery. Great. Your body, your choice. Chop off as much as you want.
How about giving all those babies having their bits mangled without their consent the same decision making process you had – ie the ability to make an informed choice?
Yeah, fuck off if you come near my penis or my son’s with a blade.
Chopping a little boy is just as bad.
I heard of a gentleman who called the FGM Helpline to ask if they could help him find a GP prepared to operate on his daughter. Probably not true but sounds plausible.
Probably not true but sounds plausible.
No, that was true. As Mark Steyn wrote at the time, you can hardly blame the guy, the way things are, of assuming the government was assisting parents in carrying out FGM on their daughters. They assist the same people with just about everything else, including muddying the waters when discussing the topic.
Chopping anybodys bits for any reason is barbaric….fuck whoever does it.
TimN should thank his lucky stars he hasn’t had NiV from TimW’s over here, yet, to tell you all it’s only a tiny minority of muslims & to paste links to academic studies FGM’s rife amongst the Welsh Druid community.*
Unless he wants a hundred & fifty comments on a post to bump up his advertising earnings.
*Not the cross-dressing ones, obviously.
“Not the cross-dressing ones, obviously.”
Aren’t they all?
“I heard of a gentleman who called the FGM Helpline to ask if they could help him find a GP prepared to operate on his daughter. Probably not true but sounds plausible.”
Sadly true:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26681364
Wasn’t prosecuted either. Weird that the usual suspects who are screaming that more should be done to prosecute men for rape seem to be so quiet over the fact that virtually no-one has ever been prosecuted for attacking young girls genitals in the name of religion……..not.
“Home Office minister James Brokenshire said the government had “stepped up its response” to “take this crime out of the shadows” and give victims the confidence to come forward.
He said the “key message” was that the government took FGM “extremely seriously”.
There you are, Jim. You can have every confidence the government & the police take the matter extremely seriously. They will pursue suspects with all the vigour they pursue people who make disliked posts on Twitter. Or maybe not.
It’s one of four posters. The other 3 are perhaps closer to reality.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fgm-campaign-materials
I suspect the one above was for arse covering when they were inevitably accused of racism.
Jonathan, I had the same quote in mind and also the fact that the policy was instantly successful. As I said, the government is not run by serious people.
At the risk of being a pooper at this party, can anyone verify the origin of this image? Is it actually an HMG poster? If so, where and where was it seen. This has spoof written all over it.
“Where and when” I meant.
Yeah – it’s legit, the fourth of four you can download from the gov.uk I posted earlier:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fgm-campaign-materials
Mark Steyn
…Before we move on to the thrills of a new week, here’s some postscripts to the old one:
~Over the weekend, I mentioned the poor bloke in Britain who called the Female Genital Mutilation Helpline thinking it was a helpline to help you find someone to genitally mutilate your female. This rang a bell with the Great Australian Wag Tim Blair:
It’s a life-imitates-art moment. Observe this scene from Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator.
Well, worth a click to see General Aladeen’s reaction at the mention of the Rape Center. “You have a center for rape? Great! Let’s go!”…
@bloke in spain on October 31, 2018 at 3:40 pm
+1 on NiV the RoP apologist
Recusant,
Two can play that game.
I was circumcised as an adult too, purely for medical reasons, and I am absolutely against children being mutilated when there is no pressing medical reason to do so. What they chose to do as an adult is an entirely different question.
….and no, I am not anti-Jewish (any more than I am anti any other religion which has almost zero effect on me and is relatively non-oppressive), as numerous posts of mine on many sites will attest.
No, Simon Schama, people worried about gang rape and FGM aren’t ‘obsessed with sex’
Male circumcision is not the same thing.
Cutting off a flap of skin does not equate to the excision of the clitoris. As someone who was snipped at the age of 31, I think I have enough practical experience to make that statement.
Genital Mutilation is bad. Case closed, end of argument.
Anyone arguing FOR genital mutilation, of either boys or girls, is not to be respected as an adult in full standing.
120 million baby boys in the United States have had their genitals diminished and to this day strapped down against their will, and remains tossed in the trash.
Also, to call it a “flap of skin” is a farcical euphemism unfit for manly discussion. There are more nerve endings in the foreskin than in the clitoris. They say there are 9,000 nerve endings in the clitoris versus 20,000 to 120,000 in the foreskin.
By this metric, MGM is WORSE than FGM by an order of magnitude!
Also, comparing an adult making a decision for whatever reason about his own genitals, to forcibly cutting up and out and off, of a newborn’s genitals, is absurd and indicates low level critical thinking skills.
STFU recusant. You speak about which you know not, and argue for that which is wrong.
Well, well; I stand corrected.
Seems NiV was correct about RoP kiddies being raped too, difference being this is not RoP publicly accepted child gang-rape of non-RoPs, it’s secret 1 on 1.
#1400 Campaign: Leftists Prioritise Hate Over Victims
Good article by Shazia highlighting the rank hypocrisy of left Mob/Npc.