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Struck Off - Dr Ali in Green Lanes

This was on BBC TV news tonight - the sign flashed passed me and I thought- I recognise that sign, scrolled back and took a photo.  The sign is on the front of a large house in Green Lanes near the mini Tescos and the Salisbury.

The guy was willing to arrange (for an undercover reporter) that FGM be performed on her fictious nieces- what they call female circumcision,  what the UN defines as torture, what we call Female Genital Mutilation - they perform it on teenage girls, often without anaesthetic. Now apparently they are attempting to bypass British law by performing FGM on girls that are younger and younger and in some case babies.

It is absolutely against the law here and the government has mounted a campaign to stamp it out.  This guy has been struck off by the BMA because of it.

 

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Permalink Reply by rosyrose on June 6, 2014 at 8:56
You need to inform yourself about this disgusting practice before you make flippant remarks. FGM is not a benign personal grooming ritual. Even to call it "circumcision" is to give a false impression that it's like the removal of a foreskin. FGM can involve cutting off a girl's labia and clitoris and permanently sewing up her vagina. The health risks from the procedure itself - often done without anaesthetic and with dirty tools - are compounded by the risks of having a hole the size of a match head to pee and menstruate through. That's before you even think of the fact that it's designed to permanently remove any possibility of sexual pleasure for the adult woman. Not a joke.

http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/key-issues/fgm
Permalink Reply by Sapphireblue on June 2, 2014 at 1:53

Oh yes I see what you were responding to now John M.. you're right actually to point that out.

and you made some good points later too about keeping this issue focused on women... although there are many women who this happened to at various stages of childhood and its often practised on girls between age 3 and 14 (ie children).

Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on May 31, 2014 at 19:26

Struck Off - Dr Ali in Green Lanes

My heart lifted momentarily when I thought 'Dr Ali' was a pharmacist?

Permalink Reply by Justin Hinchcliffe on May 31, 2014 at 21:12

Councillor material? 

Permalink Reply by Sapphireblue on May 31, 2014 at 21:17

Who?

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on June 2, 2014 at 14:57
Permalink Reply by matt on June 6, 2014 at 12:29

The signs outside this 'practice' are still up.

Thanks Michael for the link above. This country really is slow in dealing with prosecutions of FGM. Politically things seemed to have moved recently but little else.

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