The video’s proper title is ‘They Cut Me When I Was Eight Years Old’ and it comes from the #NotSilent6Podcast on YouTube. I realise that Christmas Eve when people are looking forward to all the fun of Christmas Day and the rest of the Christmas season isn’t the most suitable time for such a grim subject. But I felt I had to put it up after one of the right-wing YouTubers put up on his channel a piece from an LBC phone-in where their presenter was talking to an African woman, who was outraged that FGM was outlawed in this country. The woman seemed to believe, from the way she said that it was a White nurse that told her that if she cut her baby, she’d report her, that the opposition to it was just White racism. No. It isn’t. It’s based on very sound medical reasons, and as I hope this video makes very clear, it isn’t just Whites who despise the custom and want it banned. I have to say that I really admire the LBC lady arguing with her. From what I saw, she remained polite and civil throughout. I’m not sure how many people could have done this when talking to someone supporting such vile mutilation of small girls.
The brief blurb for the video gives the following information:
‘Fatou Baldeh, a survivor of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and a leading human rights activist. She was cut as a child only 8years old, and being told never to talk about it. But she broke that silence — for the 230 million girls and women affected by FGM worldwide. Fatou Baldeh is a TIME Women of the Year 2025, a recipient of the Clooney Foundation for Justice Award, and the U.S. State Department’s International Women of Courage Award.’
There are other girls and young women like Baldeh also campaigning against it in Britain. One of these is a Bristol girl, who appeared a few years ago on the local BBC news programme, Points West.
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