And when I ask my mother, she said, wait till you become a fat and you get enough blood,
and we will do it for you.
I have a scar because they close my legs together and when I want to have a urinate, it was difficult.
I have to stand up and then it was easier than when I'm sitting down. Really, it was two days.
I couldn't do it and I stopped it to eat and to drink because I was afraid.
That's my mom and that's my little sister Samira. She's seven years old. She looks cute.
She's so annoying. And this is me, Yasmin. I'm just a normal everyday kind of girl with an upside down life.
My dad doesn't live with us anymore.
Yasmin, you like this usually?
Yeah, I'm on my own. I'm going to be a bit late home and I want to go to the library.
Yasmin!
FGM can be classified into different types. Type one is when the clitoris has been removed and type two, when the clitoris and the inner labias has been removed.
Sometimes people can describe that as the inner lips and type three is when the clitoris, the inner lips of the labia has been removed and stitched together, leaving a small opening.
My mom works so hard. I know her life is difficult.
We need to know whether the practice of FGM is religious or cultural.
If something is harmful, then it is not allowed.
As we have seen now, exploring all the areas of evidence in Islamic law, there is no single hadith that substantiates or supports the practice of FGM.
Osam!
Hey guys!
Hey!
How was your day?
I just saw a couple of hours ago.
Look, I've got a new tattoo.
What?
But I'm exhausted.
You work really hard. It's a shame you can't tell your mom about the show.
But that's how it is.
I'm going to answer.
Let's go then.
For the younger generation, they get really trapped between two cultures.
Here they are wanting to belong to their parent culture, value the tradition, respect and all that.
And on the other hand, they want to belong to the new culture, i.e. here or the European or Westernized thing.
So again, that can create a lot of tension in a family situation.
Anyone who is in any way involved commits an offence.
So whether they do it themselves, whether they organize for it to happen, whether they assist other people in organizing it to happen,
whether they send a girl abroad for it to be done, all commit a serious crime and in fact are liable to up to 14 years in prison.
Hey mom, how was work? Anything up on?
What's up?
You should know.
I should know what. Mom, what are you talking about?
You should know what I'm talking about. Are you going behind my back?
What?
You've been seeing him. He left us.
Who?
Your father.
What do you mean he left years ago?
Mom.
Don't touch me.
Mom.
Don't touch me.
So give a ruling of the FGM type one as Sunnah is wrong because that is not a fit description. That is an oversimplification taken only from the fact that there are weak hadith which is called Sunnah regarding the FGM.
However, not a single scholar actually will, of hadith, let me say, of hadith, will take this ahadith and say this ahadith justifies the ruling of FGM to be Sunnah.
I know why Da left and it ain't surprising he left and I know what you want to do to my sister and it isn't even in the Quran.
Look at her, how could you?
The fact that there have not been prosecutions to date I think is a bit of a bad you shame frankly for all the organisations and for all the agencies and all the communities because it's not just the police's role.
It's all the agencies role to be vigilant, to look out for signs of FGM, to make them known and to, you know, if you like you need to just give us enough that we can investigate and we will do so.
A lot of Somali women, they don't know about the law. To reach a lot of women, they must get information in hospital.
The first time when the baby, the girl, the baby born, they have to know. Secondly, when they are flying to the holiday, somebody must mention it about the law.
No mother wants to lose her child.
What's wrong with you Yasmin? How many times have I told you she doesn't like love?
Some other people in the house too.
Samira, your party is coming up soon. You are going to be a big girl. A lot of presents.
So, how's school, Yasmin?
Why should you care?
Why is everybody close?
The topic of FGM can cause a problem in the family, in the sense that if you have a father who is against FGM and you have a mother who's been through it and has a lot of pressure from her own family to circumcise or to FGM her daughter,
that can create a lot of problems within the family.
How dare you come back! First you talked to my daughter behind my back and now you're ruining the family dinner.
I haven't talked to her. Yasmin, she didn't know. I was watching her to make sure she was alright.
Watching me? Where? Why?
Quiet, Yasmin!
How dare you come back? You left us.
I have left because what you have done to Yasmin. Doing you soon, I'm going to let you do the same to our youngest daughter.
My grandmother had it done. My mother, my auntie and my sister. So have you.
We live in the 21st century man. Things have changed. Can you see that? Break away from our tradition.
Who would want to marry Samira if she doesn't?
Men don't want it.
That's what you say. Traditionally, it's everything.
The sex relationship is one of the huge elements that bring this cocoon, which is peace and tranquility and compassion and love between the spouses.
If the female, because of this practice, finds the relationship very hurting, harmful, boring, tasteless, then definitely she's not going to enjoy it and the husband is not going to enjoy it and this will really affect marriage.
Aisha, I'm not talking to your mum. I'm talking to you. It's not in Quran. It's not legal. Do you want to go to jail?
So what will she do?
My daughter, I tell her and she always reminds me, every time we go on holiday, she was asking me, are you going to do?
And I say, no, not you. She was really scared.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
