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Man who sent girl to Iraq for FGM jailed in legal first for England and Wales (www.theguardian.com)

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former PhD student has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for arranging to send a young girl to Iraq for female genital mutilation (FGM), in the first conviction of its kind in England and Wales.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hopefully MGM gets banned too next

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Hey I like that lion though. What'd he ever do to you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Oh no but it's so ingrained in our beloved religions

[–] andrew_bidlaw 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't he castrate himself to set an example?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Cowards gonna cower.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Some days I think our species is doomed and we deserve it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

Let’s make religion the doomed thing instead.