CLITERROR: COUPLE CUTS OFF CLITORISES OF FIVE DAUGHTERS

Western media continues to ignore this gruesome Islamic practice and when they do cover it, it is quaint and cultural - see here. This is a terrible, growing trend and it will only get worse if we continue to pretend it's not really happening here.

Norway: Couple arrested for genital mutilation of five girls Jihadwatch hat tip babs

This horrible story offers an opportunity yet again to show that the information Islamic spokesmen provide to non-Muslims in the West is often incomplete, misleading, or outright deceptive. A few months ago the British convert to Islam Yusuf Smith asserted at Jihad Watch: "I have never heard anyone suggest that FGM is spreading in the west..."

Now you have, Yusuf. And this isn't the first time, either.

"Couple charged in Norway for circumcising 5 girls," from Reuters, June 6 (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):

OSLO (Reuters) - Police in Norway have arrested a Gambian-born man and charged him and his wife with subjecting five of their six daughters to genital mutilation, officials said on Friday.

The practice, also known as female circumcision, is outlawed in Norway and arouses horror among many people in the West but is a rite of passage for young women in many countries, predominantly in Africa.

Oh. That makes it all right in Africa, eh, Reuters?

The youngest of the five mutilated girls, all born in Norway, is five years old, police officials said. The others are aged seven, 10, 13 and 14 and live in Gambia, national broadcaster NRK reported.

Police officer Hanne Kristin Rohde, head of the violent crime and vice section of the Oslo police, said on Norwegian commercial television TV 2 that the father -- a naturalized Norwegian citizen along with his wife -- was taken into custody on Friday.

"Norwegian police have charged this couple of Gambian background for breaking the Norwegian law on genital mutilation -- five of their six daughters are circumcised," Rohde said.

The mother is pregnant with a seventh child and was deemed unfit to be held in jail.

UPDATE: Michael sent this horrible update:

FGC Around the World

Table and definitions compiled and authored by H. L. DIETRICH

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COUNTRY	PREVALENCE (%)	TYPE PERFORMED
Benin	16.8	II
Burkina Faso	76.6	II – Performed throughout the country in all but a few provinces.
Cameroon	1	I, II
Central African Republic	35.9	I, II
Chad	44.9	II – Widely practiced in all parts of Chad. III – Confined to areas bordering Sudan in the eastern part of the country.
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	44.5	II
Djibouti	90-98	II – Performed on girls of Yemeni origin. III – Most common among the Issa and Afar.
DRC (Congo)	Unknown	II
Egypt	97.3%	I, II, III
Eritrea	88.7	I, II, III
Ethiopia	79.9	I – Commonly practiced among Amharas, Tigrayans and the Jeberti Muslims living in Tigray. II – Most commonly practiced form.  The Gurages, some Tigrayans, Oromos and the Shankilas practice this form. III – Practiced in the eastern Muslim regions bordering Sudan and Somalia. IV – Referred to as "Mariam Girz" in Ethiopia, it is practiced mainly in Gojam in the Amhara region.
Gambia	60-90	I – The Sarahulis perform this on girls one week after birth.  The Bambaras perform the procedure on girls between 10-15 years of age. II – Nearly all Mandinkas, Jolas and Hausas practice this form on girls 10-15 years old. III – The Fulas perform a procedure similar to Type III that is described as "vaginal sealing" on girls from one week old to 18 years old. IV – The Fulas perform this type on girls from one week old to 18 years old.
Ghana	5.4	I, II, III
Guinea	98.6	I, II, III, IV
Indonesia	100	I, IV
Kenya	32.2	I and II most common. III – found in the far eastern areas bordering Somalia.
Liberia	50	II
Mali	91.6	I, II, III (Type III practiced in southern areas of country)
Mauritania	71.5	I, II
Niger	4.5	II
Nigeria	19	I, II, III, IV (Type I and II more prominent in the south; Type III more prominent in north)
Senegal	28.2	II, III (Type II is most common)
Sierra Leone	80-90	II
Somalia	90-98	I – practiced mainly in the coastal towns of Mogadishu, Brava, Merca, and Kismayu. III – Approximately 80% of the circumcisions are this type.
Sudan	90	I, II, III (Type III is most common)
Tanzania	17.7	II, III
Togo	12	II
Uganda	5	No information available.
Yemen	22.6	II, III

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