Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Let's discuss the justification of using "it's our culture thus we ..." for harming human beings

Londoners Sign Muslim Petition to Mutilate Girls Because “It’s Their Culture”

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Political correctness has won. Civilization has lost.

A Londoner who suffered female genital mutilation has warned that political correctness is hampering the fight to stamp it out after asking people to sign a fake petition in its favour.

Leyla Hussein, 32, said many were scared to speak out against FGM because they were worried about criticising another culture.

She decided to conduct an experiment to see “how crazy political correctness has become” but was left in tears by the end.

Approaching shoppers with the petition supporting FGM, she told them she wanted to protect her  “culture, traditions and rights”.


In only 30 minutes 19 people signed it with some saying they believed FGM was wrong but because it was part of Ms Hussein’s culture they would add their names. Only one person refused to sign.

Ms Hussein, who was cut when she was seven in Somalia, said: “Four women held me down and cut my clitoris. I felt every single cut. I was screaming so much I just blacked out.”

“I kept using the word ‘it’s just mutilation’. They were like ‘yes, you are right’. How can anyone think that’s okay?”

She added: “FGM is not culture, it is violence. Stop using the culture word. This is happening to children. We are human beings, we can’t watch children being cut, I don’t care what culture you belong to.”

People have been so trained to ignore their common sense and moral instincts when the right liberal buzzwords are uttered that they are capable of participating in the worst crimes.

Comment:  I post this article today as an example of PC damaging human beings.  We are not asking the correct questions in the West.  I suggest we begin with at what point does a people using the argument, "It is our culture therefore we can do..." justify all of their behaviors? This is crucial if we are to be willing to stand for our cultural values. Certainly from a historical perspective societies have
made behavioral decisions about many peoples' values, behaviors and actions. This is not new. There are many directions this conversation can go, let us finally get started. I'll begin by saying immigrants, legal and non-legal, choosing to lve in the USA are entitled in their homes to continue with the behaviors associated with their respective cultures up to the point that any one of those behaviors is harmful to a human's health and well being. Your turn...

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