Parents fly in African village elders to circumcise their young daughters - African immigrants are clubbing together to pay for practitioners to fly to Britain and circumcise their daughters in highly secretive rituals.
Sigh. I have come across this practice before - not in an actual sense, but in the sense of knowing about it. I am, however, greateful that it is illegal in the UK not only to perform it, but also to send a child to have it performed upon them in their home country.
This is the classic example for me - I am liberal in many senses and often the issue of whether or not it is wrong to interfere with other cultures practices or not.
I think it is wrong to in general, but in this case not - I have worked out that what I actually believe is that while we should be accepting of cultural differences that those people wish to practice that this tolerance should not extend to those forced upon the unwilling.
And in similar, but vastly different, news there is the story of the Italian MP who felt that meeting a Transexual (Pre-op) in the ladies felt like Sexual Violence.... buh? (Transgender MP in toilet fracas)
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