What pisses me of

I think of myself as a pretty calm and rational person when it comes to global events or whatever that happens but when its comes to the violation and right of women acorss the world this really ticks me of .

i read this article today in Yediot Ahronot

Palestinian mental patients get hysterectomies

Muslim law permits parents to remove uteruses of mentally ill girls to protect family from shame

Ali Waked

Published: 09.30.10, 23:47 / Israel News

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A debate held by a Palestinian radio station has revisited the issue of female mutilation, with interviewed parents saying they prefer to perform hysterectomies on mentally ill girls in order to prevent them from becoming impregnated.

But the procedure is known to be performed in order to allay fears of embarrassment by a similarly ill offspring, and has been sanctioned to this end by both Sharia and the Palestinian Authority.

"We can't follow the girls around 24 hours a day, and we worry that they will be sexually assaulted, so we prefer to cut out their wombs," one parent told a radio station belonging to the Ma'an news agency.

The station held a debate on the matter over the past few days, uncovering a phenomenon not uncommon in the West Bank.

Parents who were interviewed anonymously cited protecting their daughters from rape as the reason behind the procedure, and the mufti of Nablus issued a decree approving hysterectomies "if they can put an end to a mental condition or social problem".

A gynecologist interviewed by the radio stressed that the procedure prevents pregnancy but not sexual desire.

The debate also concluded that Palestinian law does not prevent hysterectomies from being carried out on mentally ill girls, despite prohibiting the severing of body parts from any person's body without that person's consent.

Female Palestinian MP Dr. Sahar Al Qawasmi agreed that there is a legal problem, and said a hysterectomy does nothing to defend the girl but rather serves only to protect her family from the shame and embarrassment incurred in Muslim society by a mentally ill family member.

"If our will is to protect the disabled or mentally ill, we must worsen the punishment against those who would attack her," Dr. Qawasmi said.

"If we must cut out the girl's womb, why do we not chop off body parts from disabled boys? The hysterectomy makes her the victim of a rape as well as of punishment, and the lack of punishment for her assailant.

honestly at first i was shocked and at lost for words even though i dont know why. Ive studied the abuse and mutilation of women all across the world and have silently sat through the movie " G-ds SandBox " which talks about a young israeli girls fling with a Bedouin and her forced circumcision... those scenes were ... hard to witness.

But honestly i can still say that it all hit me as if the first time im learning about it . The fact that they said they were protecting their daughter by having their female organs cut out was disgusting cuz in the end of the day who are they really protecting .. themselves from having a bastard child to take care of if so happens that she's raped. What happens when she still gets raped after the operation shes still going to be mentally scared and ruined as all rape victims are after they've be raped. And it wont matter for her whether there was child  a child after-words or not because she would still be raped. In the end they only ones they protected was themselves not only did they leave their daughter more susceptible to rape but took away from her a future.. honestly i have no words for them besides pigs.