As Long As It’s Choice, Columbia Students Okay with Funding Female Genital Mutilation

“To each his own.”

Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative descended onto the campus of New York City’s Columbia University to offer a hypothetical to students and ask if they would support Planned Parenthood funding of female genital mutilation. Surprisingly -- or perhaps not -- nearly all of them said yes.

The prevailing sentiment among these millennials was that they'd get behind anything that’s a woman’s choice, even the barbaric Islamic crime of cutting out a young girl’s clitoris, usually between birth and 15 years old. Of course, FGM is never a choice; it’s a religion-based punishment. It's just that students have learned out of fear of being called Islamophobic to view FGM as a “cultural phenomenon,” not a religious one.

Geller explained what the procedure involves:

“FGM involves partial or total removal of the clitoris causing injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. It has no health benefits for girls and women, and removes all possibility of sexual pleasure. It is the worst kind of misogyny. Procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of newborn deaths.”

“To each his own,” one female student said, brushing off the barbarism.

Around the world in at least 30 countries, including Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, over 200 million girls and women who are still alive today have been mutilated. It happens even in the United States. Over 500,000 are at risk or have been subjected to FGM within Muslim families living here. It's gotten so bad here, the FBI had to create a special unit to investigate the rarely reported crime.

Field reporter Laura Loomer found Columbia students to be “remarkably unconcerned” about FGM and noted that only one out of twenty people she talked to definitively said “no” to funding the terrible practice.

Watch the sobering video of mostly clueless college students above. 

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