Beliefs and Misbeliefs: a film about FGM and other harmful traditional practices

The Inter-African Committee (IAC) works to eliminate female genital mutilation and other harmful traditional practices. Founded in 1984, IAC is the first and largest African NGO network to take up the issue of FGM at the grassroots, regional and international levels.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• FGM
• female
• genital
• mutilation
• harmful
• traditional
• practices
• Inter-African
• Committee
• IAC
• circumcision

[ElMa1788]

This is horrible! You were born with these body parts so there is no need to remove them, especially in this manner. Plus these body parts are the most sensitive and pleasurable. These "religious" people are so against sexual pleasure and look at it as something sinful. God gave humans this gift of sexual organs whos primary function is for pleasure. By destroying them and making their purposes seem evil is like going against what God gave all humans. They need to be educated! This is awful!

[shoshana08]

omg this is the worst thing i have ever seen.the poor baby girl getting tribal marks and circumcised all at the same time..how can any mother ignore her baby sreaming in pain like that..i have met pple with tribal marks bt i dint realise they had it done as babies..horrible!

[ilovewretch32]

haha they think if the baby touches the clitoris when their been born they will die what a load of bullshit they think having the clitoris for pleasure is wrong ..... yeah and men have their cocks for pleasure so why dont the men chop their cocks off too this is wrong its terrible

[stephanie8701usher]

btw how is it beneficial to the husband's pleasure? im sure it would make sex difficult.and if these ppl r questioning if this is required by them in the koran, why dont they go and read it themselves and see that is isnt islamic or religious

[stephanie8701usher]

this is abuse, horrible, and has no benefit to the women, it ruins their bodies, can cause women to have stillborn babies, or to die in general,its sad that there r men in these cultures who wont marry a woman who hasnt had female circumcision.girls die from this, why are they still performing this practice ???these ppl r so uneducated and need to be educated about the harm they are doing.

[rirdan1]

Whether female or male genital mutilation, genital cutting on minors is a true abuse that must stop.

[64Hulya]

These Africans make me sick. Islam does not commend this sick tradition. It is a slander to my religion. I have read Koran. You sick twisted people make me sick calling your self Muslims.That is why Allah sent Islam to Africa to stop this inhuman tradition. Africans are the most ignorant race ever. That is why Africans are sold for slavery because God punished your race. I am so angry for the ignorant Africans. I hope you will pay for your sick tradition. Crazy Africans.

[Azadari4Evaa]

Its not in the Quran, the Prophet never circumcised his daughter, and it predates Islam. Furthermore it is a horrific act and must be abolished

[princessrora100]

This is very horrafying to watch how can mother allow their babies go through this.

[secretp101]

looks like the little girl is being raped :((((((((

[chaoscraig5v7o]

This result corroborates the factual innervation data that i can reference.

“ The five components of the foreskin that are routinely removed during circumcision are more sensitive then the most sensitive part of the circumcised penis which is the amputation scar on the ventral side.”(29)

29.Morris L. Sorrells, James L. Snyder. Fine-touch pressure thresholds in the adult penis . BJU 2006 Oct:22, pp. 864-869