Recently, senior adviser to Donald Trump, Stephen Miller sent CNN comrades into a frenzy when he said that CNN was more interested in Trump’s retweet of a picture of Cruz’s wife than they were of the Muslim ritual of female mutilation (FGM), which claimed half a million victims last year alone. Muslims mutilate women’s genitals to prevent them from enjoying sex so that they remain faithful. All the little comrades at CNN went off like a rocket and even denied they were happening and even if they were, there weren’t half a million of them.
The half a million FGM was gleaned from research by Equality Now, a feminist group. Said Miller:
“You want to talk about women’s issues? Here’s something we should be talking about. This is a fact. As a result of uncontrolled migration into this country, you can look this up. It’s a statistic from a Equality Now — half a million U.S. girls in this country are at risk of female genital mutilation.”
Even ultra liberal Newsweek has reported on the rise of FGM:
The data, the first on FGM in the U.S. for a decade, is being published to coincide with the United Nations’ International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM.
More than half a million women and girls in the U.S. are at risk of undergoing FGM in the U.S. or abroad, or have already undergone the procedure, including 166,173 under the age of 18, according to the Population Reference Bureau(PRB).
Immigration to the U.S. from African and Middle Eastern countries—where the practice of FGM is a deeply entrenched cultural tradition—is the sole factor for the rise in numbers, says Mark Mather, a demographer at PRB who led the data analysis. There has not been an increase in the practice happening in the U.S. itself, he says.
Paula Kweskin, author of “Honor Diaries” noted that Obama took up the cause of FGM but quickly dropped it:
For instance; when the President and First Lady came out strongly against FGM, and promised a thorough study of FGM in America. But the media is easily distracted. The conversation on FGM in the US needs to be sustained so that we see actual change. Where are the training programs for police, doctors, nurses, teachers, and other first responders? Why isn’t there a proliferation of programs to engage with communities in the US who practice FGM? Why haven’t there been any prosecutions under our existing FGM laws?
Why? Because the Muslim in Chief won’t allow US laws to interfere with his religion.