This came to me so strong...so strong. It is not pretty. It is not meant to be pretty. It is designed to bring light to the horror of FGM and other means of holding women back. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
OUTRAGE comes in many godless beliefs. It screams from broken shards of glass, cries in each slice of a razor blade dulled by time, debased with dirt and blood, on tender flesh: Woman must be scraped from the crotches of innocent little girls to prove herself worthy of a husband, evidence of the last butchering still wet on the tip.
It also comes in the burqa and veil diminishing females to shapeless forms of anonymity: sexless lumps draped to be invisible, to have no voice. Blending in the background, she has no name - she is not important. Deliberate obfuscation meant to keep WOMAN in her place ... lower than life, than animals.
Karla no doubt this is beyond the frontiers of barbarism and I'm glad that your pen is sharper than their knives. If we keep slahsing their hearts with these powerful words i think they shall not be able to continue harming our young daughters. And as FGM is a crime against humanity those who practice it should be held responsible for committing atrocities of the worst kind. I have written so much about this topic and am now working with a doctor and an artist in the US to publish a book on FGN with paintings done by himself.
Your brother and friend Abdi-Noor
Thanks dear sister and friend
Abdi-Noor
This is the second time this evening that I find myself saying almost the same thing on two pages: between your profound, powerful write and Sage's personal testimony, I am rendered humbled and speechless. How can I add to the degree of distress that has audibly or inaudibly been articulated here? Thank you for bringing this barbarism before our attention, Karla. Bless you, Kate xx
Karla, this is an extremely painful poem to read. It brings home to me what happens throughout Africa as well where female circumcision is common. Excellent work!
Chanti
I won't comment on this, although I have written on female circumcision, Maraca posted in my den, a selection from my FEMINIST FOLKTALES, forthcoming selection in my 5-book deal, serving a dual purpose, also written for the college classroom for women's studies. It is very difficult for an ex-battered woman such as myself to comment without bias. I have healed and to bring up any old battle scars is detrimental to staying on the path of righteousness.
This should be translated into their language and become required reading for every young woman. Wow. You tackled a very big subject Karla, and as always you did it with tremendous passion. Michelle
Powerful, heartwrenching cry of women who truly know of pain and suffering. God help them! Let this barbaric traditional practice be obliterated from our earthly shores! Extremely well done; take a bow, Karla!
(((HUGS))) and much love, your twin, Karen Lynn. :( >tears <
Yes it is time the world took on these travesties of mankind and fought wars if necessary to end it instead of for profits and oil.
Felix
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Reviewed on January 19, 2006
Absolutely, Karly, and you put the words to the outrage and the power of the pen to the obfuscation, and have shouted it for all to see and hear. It is such a pathetic thing that the so-called "feminists" of this country don't say one word about the way women are treated in those barbaric countries for fear of aiding and abeting this governments war on terror. Think about it.
Thank you for this. As a man, I cannot begin to appreciate fully the depth from which these words sprang. Surely, a new day has dawned to make it better for the mothers of the human race. May these perpetrators be in Hell for months before they know they're dead! Blessings - Bill
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Your brother and friend Abdi-Noor
Thanks dear sister and friend
Abdi-Noor
Regis
God Bless
Michelle!
love and peace to you...
Carole
Well written and well read.
Lisa
Very powerful and painful write. One of your best.
Chanti
Sage
Powerful, heartwrenching cry of women who truly know of pain and suffering. God help them! Let this barbaric traditional practice be obliterated from our earthly shores! Extremely well done; take a bow, Karla!
(((HUGS))) and much love, your twin, Karen Lynn. :( >tears <
Felix
Eileen
Woman need all the love of the universe..
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for Mom..
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Love Tinka
Tami