How #FGM started in Gambia🙆🏽♀️
Grandma Karamo Kassama (a circumciser) said:
"Some say it started as a result of the rivalry and enmity between co-wives. There was a man who decided to marry a second wife, who was younger than his first wife. The first wife got jealous and decided
to torture the younger wife, in such a way that their husband will not even love her anymore.
So, the first wife took a needle and start pricking the lips of the second wife, and they got swollen to an extent that she cannot even talk. When their husband returned home from work,
he met the second wife in that state and said that the second wife looks even more beautiful with her swollen lips.
The first wife got even more jealous because of that statement, and took a needle again and pricked the ears of the second wife. When the husband returned home from
work, again he made the same statement.
Finally, the first wife in anger again cut the clitoris of the younger woman, her co-wife, saying that now the husband will send her packing. Instead, the husband took care of the wife until she got better, and appreciated that too.
After
that, people continued the practice and then, religion, Islam accepted it as a good one. Since then, we keep on practicing it as a Sunnah of our religion with culture having a role in it."
#FYI Gambia banned FGM in 2015 but it didn't stop; they say it's a "religious obligation."
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