A Chance To Secure Multiple Convictions For The Crime Of Fgm?

[sandyRoe]

If these girls were being taken to Africa in order to undergo FGM will their 'carers' be planning to bring them back to the UK? If so, could they be put on a watch list so that when they return they could be invited to explain, under caution, their actions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33572428

[Canary42]

You certainly have a jaundiced view of multi-culturalism NJ. While I accept and agree that toleration has in some cases gone too far, the opposite stance of "we're totally right, submit or else" is too intransigent.

So - it's true we've developed our culture over a long time and stabilised it, but to close it to further development from outside influence (which is what you appear to be advocating) is silly.

Furthermore, there are aspects of our culture which receive quite significant opposition from within (e.g. capital punishment, fox-hunting, abortion), so your claims of consensus are flawed.

[mushroom25]

//Furthermore, there are aspects of our culture which receive quite significant opposition from within (e.g. capital punishment,//

capital punishment was a feature of many societies and culture until the last century; it has had no place in the UK since the 1960s. on the other hand, there are still some cultures now that would happily condone killing someone who disprespects their family.

[New Judge]

It isn’t the evolution of the UK’s culture to which I take exception, Canary. It is the notion that we must accommodate a multitude of cultures, some very different from ours and some including elements of “custom” which range from mildly unacceptable to absolutely abhorrent to most people already here. I’m not suggesting that no further evolution should take place but to import a culture lock stock and barrel, some aspects of which are so very different to that already here, is not evolution.

A nation cannot embrace multi-cultures. We are being asked to accept that because some people who arrive here have a totally different outlook on life, some aspects of which many people find extremely distasteful to say the least and some of which are actually illegal, that we must accommodate their views “because it’s their culture”. Because of this attitude law enforcement is being jeopardised for fear of being branded bigoted or racist and it’s simply not acceptable to me.

[sandyRoe]

I think FGM, honour killings, and human sacrifice(the dismembered body of a boy in the Thames) are three steps too far down that particular road.

[pixie374]

I just think no laws should be changed, accommodating or relaxed for any culture or religion. Anything legal, people can live how they want to.