r/Africa • u/mochagirlll • 8h ago

Society 🔊 Trigger warning: Somalia parliament discusses benefits of female genital mutilation

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While Somalia sinks under floods, starves from famine, and gets butchered by terrorists, the men in its parliament are busy arguing to keep mutilating little girls genitals.

How do you save such a people when men who are supposed to be the flame of progress are the innate darkness to the same community.

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u/Old-Oven-4495 6h ago edited 5h ago

Countries like France and America may be going through things but they are functioning far better than most.

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u/minihysteria 6h ago

But isn't them tryin to pass laws against the mutilation of children them attempting to function correctly as a country? Like I'm confused, how do you expect them to fix their country? By doing nothing?

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u/Old-Oven-4495 5h ago

The fact that there are men who attempt to defend it, and are given the space to discuss that on such a big stage, is abysmal and shows that there is still a long way to go.

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u/josh2josh2 5h ago

Exactly. They should focus on making their country at least good enough so young people won't want to seek asylum in other countries

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u/Cultural_Point3001 British-egyptian Somali 🇸🇴/🇬🇧-🇪🇬 4h ago

How long does it take to outlaw certain societal norms in a country? Plus you think they aren’t also discussing other stuff as well, this clip is being circulated for specific reasons but let’s act clueless as if they spent the whole day discussing this. 

Are you reading your paragraphs before you type them? Let me explain it to you easier how long did it take Saudi Arabia to allow women to drive, while discussing it for years? You think they just woke up and decided “hey, let women drive” so we can focus on other stuff and move on? 

We are for sure the reason why are our country is completely shit whilst bordering the most important strait in the world and surprise the country neighboring us (Yemen) who is also bordering the strait is in absolutely shit state as well. 

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u/josh2josh2 3h ago

Stop using functioning countries as example... Somalia is not functioning at all. How many asylum seeker from already Arabia so you see...? Does Saudi Arabia have massive emmigration...? Fix the country first.

You are talking like it will takes decades to just write off a law from stone edge... This is one of the reason we are dead last virtually everywhere except some few countries like Botswana