Fwd: AHA Foundation files Amucis Curiae in first ever prosecuted FGM case, Bipartisan coalition urges Congress to add anti-FGM language to VAWA, McGill University professor sheds light on child marriage in the U.S., and more

Hi, Sharing work by someone whose courage under immense fire from all sides I greatly respect. 

She is working on serious women's issues that are given a wide berth by the mainstream feminists, because these issues, like Sati, are endemic to certain non-western communities that have been designated as "protectorate" status by the wider social justice community. 

I have no problems with the wish to protect oppressed peoples. But where I see a proof of brainlessness combined with narcissistic self-righteousness coming in is : Because you think so and so community is under racist attack and they need your protection, you start attacking all the minorities WITHIN that community that are objecting to bad practices within that community. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somalian and a victim of FGM: Female Genital Mutilation. For the "crime" of speaking out against harmful cultural practices in her community that she witnessed and suffered through herself, and linking them back to the source ideologies that she saw her elders using to justify these evil practices, she has been viciously attacked by privileged Western people who have never been in her position, and she has been hanged in the mainstream media's kangaroo courts of public opinion and labeled with pejorative terms so that regular people see those bad labels and don't bother to check out the actual details. 

The people who claim otherwise to stand up for human rights, have had no objections whatsoever to the violence committed on this lady and anyone who supports her. Her filmmaker was murdered in broad daylight in Netherlands and a paper was pinned to his body saying that she is next. Imagine how that man's family must have felt : to know that their loved one was killed by people who didn't even know him, just as a "message" to give to someone else, just because he took up work on a documentary film, while living in the Netherlands of all places. Imagine what would you feel if people who disagreed with you, KILLED YOUR COWORKERS just to send you a "message". Since over a decade now Ayaan has been forced to live under 24x7 armed security since that incident and keep her whereabouts secret, because of the serious death threats and rape threats against her and large bounties placed on her head by well-funded terrorist organizations. You won't see the SPLC or The Guardian mentioning any of these details when they are taking great pains to portray her up as a hate figure. They twist their words to subtly make you think that if anything bad happens to her then she "deserves it". She and her work and anyone who dares to interview her are being actively demonetized, shadow-banned, blocked, deleted, de-platformed by Youtube, Facebook and Twitter because the SJW moderators in those companies fell for the labels and think they know everything and never bother to thoroughly examine what they just censored. The SJWs join in with the terrorists and openly call for violence to be done to her, and nobody takes them to task for it.

It would be ok to just ignore someone who's trying to do a good thing, but you have to be self-righteously delusional to actually go out of your way to attack and sabotage someone who wants to ensure that other girls do not have to undergo genital mutilation as she did. And that is what I see the mainstream media, the "progressive" institutions and tech giants doing today. However "noble" their declared intentions may be, I for one am going to judge them by what they are actually doing.

In India we should consider ourselves lucky that our British occupiers outlawed and got our society to rethink things like Sati and child marriage (we've still got work to do in this part, but thankfully our mainstream accepts that it is bad and should end) long before today's bleeding-heart SJW's came along. A famous exchange of words that is said to have taken place back then between religious leaders and British administrators : "But this is part of our culture." "Well, in our culture we hang men who burn women alive. So let's both follow our cultures, shall we?"

Compare that attitude, that clear moral stand free from cultural relativity, with the post-modernist, moral-relativist Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) of today. If these issues had come up today, the BBC and The Guardian and CNN and MSNBC and Huffington Post and SPLC and all the "progressive" people taking cues from them would be attacking anyone who spoke out against Sati or child marriage by alleging Hindu-phobia. We'd see them justifying their hypocrisy by proclaiming that "all cultures are equal" and since child marriage and Sati are "integral and inseparable parts of Hindu culture" therefore you shouldn't speak out against it, and if you do then you're a racist. We'd see Sati and child marriage being practiced in Hindu households in the West and the police officers in charge would turn a blind eye or at best react only long after the crime has happened and never take to task the religious leaders who recommended it, for fear of being fired due to protests by angry SJW Twitter mobs.

To hell with these SJWs and their collectivist mob mentality which is SO God damn easy to weaponize. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the real feminists of our times that we should be supporting, not the charlatans slandering and censoring her. Look up her interviews, check out her books and articles before the SJWs wipe them out forever.

AHA Foundation files Amicus Curiae to support first ever FGM prosecution and works around the clock to include anti-FGM language

AHA Foundation - Newsletter, September 2018 DONATE Founder's Corner   Dear Nikhil, After defense lawyers challenged the federal law's constitutionality in the first ever prosecuted female genital mutilation (FGM) case in the U.S., the AHA Foundation filed an Amicus Curiae Brief in support of the federal anti-FGM law. This motion is in support of the U.S. government's position affirming the constitutionality of the federal law, 18 USC § 116, that criminalized FGM in 1996. Read an update on the case and our work here. This month we interviewed Dr. Alissa Koski, an Assistant Professor at McGill University who spent time researching child marriage in the U.S. while working at UCLA. Read about her alarming findings in our blog "Child Marriage in the United States: How Common Is the Practice, And Which Children Are at Greatest Risk?" Despite our efforts, California Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 273, the harmful child marriage law, into effect. We appreciate all our supporters writing in opposition of it and we will continue working to protect children in California through advocacy and events this fall. Yesterday our Senior Director, Amanda Parker, spoke at a press conference in Pennsylvania to educate state legislators on the harms of child marriage and urge them to pass HB 2542/SB 1219 which would end this abusive practice. Thanks to supporters like you, AHA Foundation has made important strides against female genital mutilation (FGM) in just the past few weeks. After months of galvanizing support, a bipartisan coalition formed by the AHA Foundation sent an urgent appeal to Congress, asking them to add provisions to the Violence Against Women Act that would protect women and girls from FGM. This federal bill has given zero attention to protecting girls from FGM in the U.S. since its inception 24 years ago. Find how you can help here. With my deepest gratitude for your loyal support, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Founder Critical Thinking Unit Upcoming Event From the Blog Update on First Female Genital Mutilation Case in the U.S. - AHA Files Amicus Brief After Defense Challenges Constitutionality of Anti-FGM Law Up to 100 girls may have been victims of FGM in this case, where Dr. Jumana Nagarwala is charged with performing the FGM procedure in the Burhani Medical Clinic in Livonia, Michigan. This is the first time an FGM case is going to trial and it will be tried under the federal legislation that criminalizes FGM. Read more The U.S. Keeps Turning a Blind Eye to Child Marriage at Home Only 1 in 5 married children in our study were living with their spouse and nearly a quarter were already separated or divorced before their 18th birthdays. These findings highlight that for many children, marriage does not lead to stable partnerships or the formation of independent households. It also raises important questions regarding the motivation for these marriages. Read more Ayaan and the AHA Foundation in the News In the News Mutilated brides fetch higher price, group claims - The Detroit News 2 Young Sisters Die After Undergoing Female Genital Mutilation - National Public Radio Feds level new charges in genital mutilation case - The Detroit News Study Examines Child Marriage in US - VOA News Featured Pages About Us Our Founder Ayaan What is Honor Violence FGM in the U.S. What is Forced Marriage Get Involved DONATE The AHA Foundation  130 7th Ave, Suite 236    New York  NY  10011  United States  You received this email because you are subscribed to the newsletter and campaign updates from the AHA Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit.