httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqEyGdLh8I

My sons are circumcised. I was ignorant. I am guilty of many mistakes in my life, but this is one that keeps coming back to haunt me as I learn more and more about the plights of women. Its hypocritical of me to be against female circumcision when I allowed it to happen to my boys. I admit it, and not lightly.

In a world where religion dominates social constaints, the victims are those who are not allowed the power over their own minds, bodies and choices. The power of religion is in the hands of men who seek nothing more than domination, where greed is the ultimate weapon and the suffering masses are told that their pain will only bring them closer to god.

Bull.Shit.

The abuses heaped on women and children in the name of God are nothing more than cowardly actions perpetuated by little men with Napoleon complexes. They are victims, too, these men who grab on to the lie that money and physical dominance will bring them true happiness.They don’t know any better, they are brought up in the same culture that fosters these environments. The cycle has to stop, and it can only be stopped through education and activism. This is why we write. We spread our own Gospel through the world, and maybe change one person’s thoughts on a single, simple idea. We write in order to shake our fists in the air, to feel that somewhere, we are not alone in our frustration… in our disgust for the “innocent” and outright heinous crimes that are perpetuated against women and children everywhere. We write, in a sense, to gain peace and understanding.

Spread this video around. Say all the bad words you want. Get the word out that there is no end to the mutilation of the spirit when it is handed over blindly to those who only seek to gain for themselves.