Initiation Ritual Quotes
Kenyatta’s revolutionary and political power base was his Kikuyu Tribe which practiced Female Genital (FMG). Although he never extolled the so called virtue of FMG as many other Kikuyu did, he did, early in his career, write about how difficult it would be to banish the custom. However, this is a problem that faces all cultures as they modernize. The Ancient Jews had to give up stoning adulterers to death; the Roman Catholics, the torture and execution of heretics; the Southern Americans, slavery. The horrible practice of female genital mutilation (often referred to as FMG) is often believed to be an Islamic ritual. However, it is not. It is a custom whose origins were pre and outside of Islam (See {635209}.). It has been practiced—mostly in Africa—by Christians and Animists also but that is now rare among those religions. For Muslims, there is not a single mention of it in the Koran or in any other writing or saying attributed to The Prophet. A few modern Islamic clerics have issued Fatwas (Islamic legal opinions) against the barbaric practice. the procedure is extremely painful and a bleeding complication can be and often is fatal. Other immediate complications include acute urinary retention, urinary infection, wound infection, septicemia, tetanus, and in case of unsterile and reused instruments, hepatitis and HIV. 140 million women and girls are living with the effects of FGM.
