Religion is a disease and needs to be eradicated just like these primitive “religious traditions and cultural practices”
It’s an excuse to control women and to drag humanity back into the dark ages.
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Agreed. I don't know where the idea that culture is sacred came from but the shit needs to die.
IMO your job, as a part of any new generation, is to take the grey plate of shit called culture your parents hand you, and scrape of the bit of spice off the top into a jar for your shelf. You know the good bits, the holidays, the food, the art. You keep it for when family, or friends come over.
Then you take the rest of that plate, you look your parents in the eye, and you throw that fucker as hard as you can into the trash where it belongs. Better yet douse it with gasoline, and chase the sonnuvaremoved with a match.
Anyone who says otherwise needs to do their part.
Edit: fucker is aight, but sunnovaremoved isn't?
I say this ironically but amen.
Fuck dragging this fucking bagged of corruption and hate along into the future.
Uplifting and sad at the same time.
good, FGM is such a ridiculous thing to do for religious reasons.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Gambian lawmakers on Monday upheld a 2015 ban on female genital mutilation (FGM), despite pressure from religious traditionalists in the West African country.
Lawmakers rejected a controversial bill, introduced earlier in 2024, that sought to enshrine "female circumcision" as a religious and cultural practice.
Following months of heated debate, legislators ended the bill's chances by rejecting all its clauses and blocking any further vote.
"The Women's (Amendment) Bill 2024, having gone through the consideration stage with all the clauses voted down, is hereby deemed rejected," said Fabakary Tombong Jatta, the speaker of the National Assembly, adding that the legislative process had been "exhausted".
"The communal leaders see the abandoning of FGM as the weakening of the paternalistic society and their own power," Conrad Schetter, director of the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, told DW.
The procedure involves removing the external female genitalia in part or in full and is mostly carried out on girls younger than five.
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