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Fri. April 28, 2017

Freedom Caucus endorses revised ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill
BY CRISTINA MARCOS

The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday announced it will back the GOP's health care plan now that an amendment allowing states to opt out of key ObamaCare rules is included.

The group of roughly 30 hard-line conservatives held out for weeks, scuttling a planned House vote on the bill last month after it became clear there was't enough Republican support to pass it.

The group said it sees the new amendment, brokered by Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and centrist Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.), as the best option short of fully repealing the 2010 law.

"While the revised version still does not fully repeal Obamacare, we are prepared to support it to keep our promise to the American people to lower healthcare costs," the Freedom Caucus said in a statement.

"We look forward to working with our Senate colleagues to improve the bill. Our work will continue until we fully repeal Obamacare."

The MacArthur-Meadows amendment let's states apply for waivers from ObamaCare provisions that ban insurers from charging sick people higher premiums and mandate minimum insurance coverage requirements, as long as the state offers high-risk pools as an alternative.

Moderate Republicans are facing a difficult decision on the bill now that the Freedom Caucus has backed it, bringing the legislation close to the 216 House votes needed for passage.

Members of the centrist Tuesday Group said Wednesday they were either still opposed or on the fence.

RABBI SHMULEY: Would Holocaust Have Happened if America Struck Hitler?

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by SHMULEY BOTEACH

AUSCHWITZ, Poland — Here at the world’s most notorious place of death, on Yom Hoshoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, I find found myself lost amid the remains of Auschwitz.

On my third visit I have, in my my mind, two eras that, sadly, cannot be conjoined.

What would have happened if Hitler, right after Kristallnacht in November, 1938, had been hit by hundreds of American cruise missiles? What if some superpower had punished him for his pogrom against Jews with a superior weapon and made him feel that his crime would not go unchallenged?

Would he have proceeded with the Holocaust? Or were the monstrous crimes that followed the result of a belief that no one cared about the Jews?

The last time I was here, I visited with a delegation from the Israeli Knesset and much of the top brass of the Israeli military. Even as I walked among the very leaders of the modern miracle of the State of Israel, themselves the symbols of Jewish hope that endured the Nazi horrors that besieged us, I felt deep despair.

This time, I am here with the March of the Living. Along with an army of Jewish youth, twelve thousand strong – all bursting with hope, strength, and pride. The mass-cascade of hopeful Jewish students, led by a delegation of survivors, is awash with the blue-and-white of the Israeli flag, which hundreds have draped across their shoulders or affixed to banners that rise triumphantly above the crowds.

The idea of the march is captured in this image. No longer will Jews be driven to their deaths at the barrel of a gun. Today, Jews step forward along the hallowed earth in a powerful parade, marked by our pride and resilience, our strength and our grit. It is, ultimately, a testament to our rebirth as a people. What was once a death march has become a march of the living.

And still, as I enter the sprawling complex of death, I felt loss, numbness, and confusion.

Today I pass under the notorious banner: “Arbeit Macht Frei.” Immediately, I am gripped by the thought that as the trainloads of Jews arrived here, they might have truly believed that “work would set them free.” For a million of those Jews, it would be a false and fruitless hope. They would never leave, but would meet their ends in chambers of poison gas. Not even their bodies would remain. They would be incinerated into ash in the crematoria.

How can one stand in this temple of horror and destruction, this barefaced symbol of G-d’s abandonment of his people, this monument to the infinity of man’s capacity for evil, and feel anything within the sphere of hope? No, here there is nothing but darkness. It is a world of shadows, impenetrable to all light. Endlessly deep and profoundly unforgiving, Auschwitz is an abyss from which no soul can possibly escape.

I have given up on finding meaning here. But I have come across something else. There is an unrelenting message that is cast upon me in all directions by the camp’s decaying brick walls, sullen barracks, and looming guard-towers. It is a call that springs upon me from the earth, from the hundreds of thousands of voices that were silenced here seven-decades ago – the victims whom I can, somehow, still hear.

In a chorus of urgency and desperation, the victims impart to me the most hallowed command: stop the horror. Never allow our fate to be thrust upon yet more innocent victims. Treasure our memory, and protect those for whom help can still arrive, for whom hope is not yet fruitless.

In Auschwitz, I find I’ve been given a mission.

This is a mission, I know, that has never been as crucial as it is today.

Even after witnessing the decimation of European Jewry in places like this, the world allowed mass slaughter and genocide to rage largely untouched in Cambodia, Iraq, Pakistan, Guatemala, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur – among many others.

Today, the killing goes on in Iraq at the hands of ISIS, who launched a genocide of the Yazidis and Christians; and in Syria, where government forces, along with the Iranian-funded Hezbollah army of terror, are targeting Sunnis and Arab children for mass extermination.

For years now, the mullah-led murderous government in Iran has continued time and again to threaten yet another Holocaust against the Jewish people. Just four months ago, Iran’s defense minister promised that should President Donald Trump pull out of Obama’s nuclear deal, the result would be the “immediate destruction of the Zionist Regime.” Half a year before that, an Advisor to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards bragged that he would raze all of Israel to the ground in “less than eight minutes.”

In return for that talk, the world awarded Iran a nuclear deal that all but allowed the continuation of the nuclear program designed to make its genocidal dreams possible. They also flooded the mullah’s coffers with one-hundred and fifty billion dollars and legitimized trade with their putrid, autocratic, and gay-hanging regime.

What is, however, most horrific is that just this month, Syria’s illegitimate murderer-in chief Bashar al-Assad took a note from the Nazis and employed poison gas to choke up to one hundred civilians to death in Idlib. To his credit, President Trump avenged their deaths with dozens of airstrikes against Syrian airfields. But from the very fact that such attacks still occur, it is undeniable that our world has yet to learn from the Holocaust, and harkened to the call of its victims – a call that still rings in my ears.

We at the World Values Network have therefore taken it upon ourselves to create a robust and fully-functional anti-genocide center that will work round-the-clock to shed light on peoples at risk across the world, bringing their plight to the forefront of global consciousness. Never again will people and governments be able to claim, as they always have, that they simply did not know.

I am here at the March of the Living with my friend Elisha Wiesel, who is speaking at the march about the memory of his illustrious father. At my home for the Sabbath recently, Elisha shared a beautiful Torah thought. Why did God make the Nile river run red with blood as the first plague in Egypt? So that the Egyptians would never be able to deny that they had perpetrated a genocide of Jewish children in the river. The very waters cried out with blood.

We may have come late for those who rest here in Auschwitz, Rwanda, and the countless mass graves that lie all across our world. Still, their voices rise up from the earth begging to finally be heard. Even as it won’t save them, it can still save others.

And, my friends, so can we.

Let’s join together and build an organization that will finally endow meaning to life in a world that is so often blind to it.

Let us finally hear the screams in the silence of Auschwitz. For within them there is not just a cry of death, but a mission of life.

It’s a mission that simply cannot wait.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, “America’s Rabbi,” whom the Washington Post calls “the most famous Rabbi in America,” is the international bestselling author of 30 books including his most recent The Israel Warrior. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

Obama Lied, Americans Died

Former President Barack Obama lied to the American people about the infamous prisoner swap that was part of the Iran deal in 2016, and released fugitives who were considered major national security threats, according to an investigative report by Politico.

“Obama, the senior official and other administration representatives weren’t telling the whole story on Jan. 17, 2016, in their highly choreographed rollout of the prisoner swap and simultaneous implementation of the six-party nuclear deal,” Politico’s Josh Meyer reports.

The seven men released on that day as a “humanitarian” gesture were deeply tied to Iran’s nuclear arms efforts, and one was connected with procurement for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that killed American soldiers in Iraq.

“They didn’t just dismiss a bunch of innocent business guys,” a former federal law enforcement supervisor who was centrally involved in the hunt for Iranian arms traffickers and nuclear smugglers told Politico. “And then they didn’t give a full story of it.”

Politico noted that federal prosecutors and agents were shocked and furious when they learned of the release; many of them had reportedly spent years, others decades, “working to penetrate the global proliferation networks that allowed Iranian arms traders both to obtain crucial materials for Tehran’s illicit nuclear and ballistic missile programs and, in some cases, to provide dangerous materials to other countries.”

Politico wrote:

Three allegedly were part of an illegal procurement network supplying Iran with U.S.-made microelectronics with applications in surface-to-air and cruise missiles like the kind Tehran test-fired recently, prompting a still-escalating exchange of threats with the Trump administration. Another was serving an eight-year sentence for conspiring to supply Iran with satellite technology and hardware. As part of the deal, U.S. officials even dropped their demand for $10 million that a jury said the aerospace engineer illegally received from Tehran.

But that was not all.

Politico also noted that “in a series of unpublicized court filings, the Justice Department dropped charges and international arrest warrants against 14 other men, all of them fugitives.”

The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday announced it will back the GOP's health care plan now that an amendment allowing states to opt out of key ObamaCare rules is included.

The group of roughly 30 hard-line conservatives held out for weeks, scuttling a planned House vote on the bill last month after it became clear there wasn't enough Republican support to pass it.

The group said it sees the new amendment, brokered by Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and centrist Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.), as the best option short of fully repealing the 2010 law.

"While the revised version still does not fully repeal Obamacare, we are prepared to support it to keep our promise to the American people to lower healthcare costs," the Freedom Caucus said in a statement.

"We look forward to working with our Senate colleagues to improve the bill. Our work will continue until we fully repeal Obamacare."

The MacArthur-Meadows amendment let's states apply for waivers from ObamaCare provisions that ban insurers from charging sick people higher premiums and mandate minimum insurance coverage requirements, as long as the state offers high-risk pools as an alternative.

Moderate Republicans are facing a difficult decision on the bill now that the Freedom Caucus has backed it, bringing the legislation close to the 216 House votes needed for passage.

Members of the centrist Tuesday Group said Wednesday they were either still opposed or on the fence.

During Gang Attack, Cop Hit 1 Button That Released K9 Lifesaver

BY JOHN FALKENBERG

In a harrowing close call, a law enforcement officer was attacked by a gang of three thugs who stabbed him with a box cutter. They dragged him off in the direction of the nearby woods, and Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Frazier may well thought May 25, 2015, was going to be the last day of his life.

That is, until he got a hand free and released his K-9 companion to unleash hell on his attackers.

The Hancock County, Mississippi, sheriff’s deputy survived the attack thanks to his furry friend, Lucas, a black Belgian Malinois. When Frazier needed him most, he came through.

That fateful night, Frazier was investigating a lone male sitting in his car near a rest stop, according to The Jackson Clarion-Ledger.

When he approached the vehicle, he was ambushed by two other men. It devolved to three against one very quickly — not odds anyone wants to play.

“I had three people on me and I’m not a very big man, and they basically whipped my butt,” Frazier told the newspaper.

The attackers reportedly told Frazier that they were going to kill him, and started dragging him off in the direction of the woods.

Frazier was able to get one hand free, but he didn’t reach for any of his defensive tools. He went right for his friend.

“I had a button on my belt that I wear, and when I hit the button Lucas jumped out of the car and attacked all three of them and they ran away,” Frazier said. “That’s why he’s my hero.”

Apparently, three-to-one odds don’t apply when you’re a hero police dog.

Frazier knew that his canine buddy wasn’t going to let him down. Lucas knew something was wrong even before he was released, and he was gearing up for the fight of his life in the car.

“He knew. I could hear him coming. I couldn’t see anything because the blood was all in my eyes, but I could hear him coming, growling and making these sounds … he sounded like a wolf,” Frazier told a group of students as he recounted the story for a group of children in August, 2015. “I thought, ‘Now he’s gonna get you.'”

Lucas sent those thugs packing.

He definitely earned his kibble that night.

“He would put his life on the line for me,” Frazier said the students. “He is a deputy. I would die for him too.”

Judge Who Blocked Trump Order Worked on Immigration Cases For Obama-Era Justice Dept.

"... he would have to recuse himself."

By Jack Davis

The federal judge who on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at denying federal funding to sanctuary cities raised money for former President Barack Obama in 2008 and worked for the Obama-era Justice Department on immigration-related cases.

According to Public Citizen, U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick III, who in 2008 was still an attorney in private practice, was a bundler for Obama, raising more than $200,000 for Obama. Public Citizen also reported that Orrick gave $30,800 to the Obama campaign.

Orrick did not remain in the private sector very long after Obama took office.

In 2009, he joined the Justice Department. There, Orrick oversaw the Office of Immigration Litigation. In 2012, Orrick was nominated to his current post. He was confirmed a year later.

In his role at the Justice Department, Orrick was often involved in cases where the Justice Department and a state were at odds over immigration laws.

For example, in 2011, Orrick opposed an Alabama law that sought to crack down on illegal immigration.

At the time, he supported the concept that the federal government was supreme in issues related to immigration.

“It is important that the country speak with one voice on immigration,” he said then.

In 2010, Orrick was involved in the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Arizona to block SB 1070, an immigration control law that would have allowed police officers to determine the immigration status of a suspect. The law also banned state and local officials from actions that would interfere with enforcing immigration law.

In its reporting on Orrick, the Washington Examiner noted that during Orrick’s confirmation hearing, he said he would remove himself from “cases involving issues, policies or initiatives developed by the Obama administration” in which he was involved at the Justice Department.

Leon Fresco, who succeed Orrick at the Justice Department, was asked about any conflict between the Trump order and Orrick’s past.

“In one way, if there’s a lawsuit about a Trump-era executive order then the record is confined to the Trump-era and he does not have to recuse himself,” Fresco explained. “But in the other way, because he was an employee of the DOJ Civil Division, and a lot of who would be litigating this were his colleagues and there was discussion of these matters while he worked there, then he would have to recuse himself.”

Cruz: Fund Border Wall With Assets From Drug Cartels

Eric Scheiner

Sen. Ted Cruz was on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning discussing his proposed EL CHAPO act to pay for a border wall with Mexico.

The measure seeks to pay for the barrier with $14 billion in assets from the Mexican gangster who is awaiting his federal trial in New York.

“It’s estimated his criminal fortune is worth $14 billion, now coincidentally the estimates for the cost to build a wall range from $14 to $20 billion, so my legislation provides if those assets are forfeited, those assets from El Chapo will go directly to building a wall and to securing the border,” Cruz said.

“There is a sense of justice – a sense of this is what’s right, to say the people who are violating the border like crazy, we should use their ill-gotten gains to finally build the wall and to finally ensure we have the assets to secure our borders,” Cruz added.

Cruz says, once El Chapo is convicted the money and assets can be seized by the government. Usually that money goes to the U.S. Treasury, under Cruz’s measure the forfeited assets of El Chapo and any other drug cartel would go to funding the wall instead.

Hillary Clinton Aides Threaten IRS Audit for Prime Minister’s Son

It’s taking years to dig through all the corruption from Hillary Clinton’s time at the State Department.

The “pay to play” was on a scale never seen before in American politics, she illegally used a private email server to transmit classified intelligence, and made millions in speaking fees from corrupt sources.

She is also solely responsible for the failure in Benghazi.

Now, we just learned that while serving as America’s top diplomat she and her aides threatened a South Asian prime minister’s son with an IRS audit.

This is absolutely shameful:

Hillary Clinton’s Department of State aides allegedly threatened a South   Asian prime minister’s son with an IRS audit in an attempt to stop a Bangladesh government investigation of a close friend and donor of Clinton’s, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group learned.

A Bangladesh government commission was investigating multiple charges of financial mismanagement at Grameen Bank, beginning in May 2012. Muhammad Yunus, a major Clinton Foundation donor, served as managing director of the bank.

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and permanent U.S. resident, recalled the account of the threatened IRS audit to TheDCNF. The allegations mark the first known instance in the U.S. that Clinton’s Department of State used IRS power to intimidate a close relative of a friendly nation’s head of state on behalf of a Clinton Foundation donor.

The IRS is not to be used as a political tool. We saw how the Obama Administration used the tax collecting agency to monitor conservative Tea Party organizations. Clearly, Hillary was happy to use the IRS for similar reasons.

This is a criminal abuse of power, and another reminder that Hillary Clinton should never ever been running for President. The foundation and her work at the State Department was all about funding her presidential ambitions.

It’s time for the Justice Department and the FBI to indict Hillary. This type of behavior is unacceptable.

ANN COULTER CANCELS: 'DARK DAY FOR FREE SPEECH'

'I looked over my shoulder and my allies had joined the other team'

Ann Coulter

Officials at the University of California at Berkeley, who this week were sued for trying to shut down a speech scheduled on campus Thursday by conservative pundit Ann Coulter, apparently will have their wish fulfilled.

“There will be no speech,” Coulter told Reuters in an email. “I looked over my shoulder and my allies had joined the other team.”

“I’m very sad about Berkeley’s cancellation, but my sadness is greater than that. It is a dark day for free speech in America,” she tweeted.

She was referencing a decision by one of the sponsoring groups, Young America’s Foundation, to remove its support based on the university’s decision not to provide a reasonable level of protection from violent protesters.

The issue centers on the mostly organized and sometimes paid rioters who have been traveling from event to event across the country to protest the election of Donald Trump.

When YAF scheduled Coulter’s speech, the university immediately put a stop it, citing its recent experience with campus speakers. In February, a speech by libertarian Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled amid violent protests, and a scheduled speech by conservative scholar and commentator David Horowitz was canceled due to the university’s “Orwellian demands.”

Reuters reported Coulter still may visit the campus but not give a speech.

YAF had to withdraw, according to the Gateway Pundit blog, because the school planned to have security officers under a “stand-down” order in which they would only intervene if a life was in imminent danger.

“When Young America’s Foundation confirmed Ann Coulter would speak at UC-Berkeley as part of YAF’s nationwide campus lecture program on April 27, we assumed UC Berkeley would take all steps necessary to ensure the safety of students attending the educational event,” YAF explained.

“In the meantime we discovered that the University of California Police Department at Berkeley has an official ‘stand-down’ policy for any situation that develops on campus as long as the situation doesn’t involve the imminent loss of life, allowing the leftist thugs who have terrorized Berkeley’s campus to do so without consequence.”

The group cited a Washington Post report that “unsuccessfully attempted to frame the narrative as [a] potential battle between far-left and far right forces when, in fact, it has been far-left groups that have used violence and threats of violence against persons exercising their right to free speech, particularly the speech of those like Coulter who support Trump.”

“It goes without saying that the Young America’s Foundation isn’t afraid of a few red hats,” the group said. “The irony is that the UC-Berkeley gave birth to free speech protests some fifty years ago, long before many of these violent, anti-free-speech activists and assault-and-battery miscreants were even born.”

YAF warned that the leftists opposing Trump “are violent.”

“A February event at UC-Berkeley featuring Milo Yiannopoulos had to be cancelled due to violence from protesters advertising that they were ‘anti-Fascists,’ when in fact they were anarchists using highly-organized, commando ‘Black Bloc’ tactics. When the smoke had cleared, these hoodlums had destroyed parts of the Berkeley campus to the tune of $100,000, and had outdone themselves within the City of Berkeley itself, causing nearly a half-million dollars of damage there.”

School officials had tried to cancel Coulter’s speech outright when it was first announced. Then they demanded the speech take place on their timetable at a location of their choosing.

School spokesman Nicholas Dirks on Wednesday blamed “outside groups.”

“This is a university, not a battlefield. The strategies necessary to address these evolving threats are also evolving, but the simplistic view of some – that our police department can simply step in and stop violent confrontations whenever they occur – ignores reality,” his statement said.

He said the school remains “ready” to welcome Coulter but officials will not “allow our students, other members of the campus community, and the public to be needlessly endangered by permitting an event to be held in a venue that our police force does not believe to be protectable.”

In some cases of recent left-wing violence against conservative students, it was discovered that school faculty members encouraged the resistance.

Scott Greer has released “No Campus for White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination,” now at the WND Superstore.

YAF had been joined by the Berkeley College Republicans in sponsoring Coulter’s speech. The two groups earlier this week sued the university’s president, Janet Napolitano, and several other officials.

The case accused them of shutting down the voices of conservative activists.

The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages and a judicial declaration that the defendants violated the constitutional rights of the two organizations under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, by “selectively enforcing the High-Profile Speaker Policy against BCR and YAF.”

Those decisions, the lawsuit contends, unreasonably restricted the “time, place, and manner of political speech” and resulted in a ban on the “expression of conservative viewpoints on the UC Berkeley campus.”

The lawsuit also named as defendants Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, Interim Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Stephen Sutton, Associate Vice Chancellor Joseph Greenwell, university Police Chief Margo Bennett, Operations Division Captain Alex Yao and Patrol Lt. Leroy Harris.

The fracas began when Coulter announced she was scheduled to speak on the UC Berkeley campus, and school officials insisted she meet a list of demands.

They argued Coulter was so controversial she would need extra security. They later changed the date and time of her scheduled speech – so that it was planned at a time when students largely would be absent from campus – but Coulter refused the change.

WND reported a February melee on campus forced Yiannopolous to cancel his event. Rioters beat up Trump supporters, pepper-sprayed bystanders, looted a Starbucks, smashed bank windows and ATMs, and spray-painted “Kill Trump” on storefronts.

An April 12 speaking engagement by Horowitz was canceled when the school insisted he speak during a time when students are in class and in a room on a separate campus.

The lawsuit charges the university admitted in a letter it chooses to limit speech as a result of the “successful misconduct” of some off-campus interest groups.

“In other words, all one has to do to silence conservative speakers at U.C. Berkeley is to don a mask and become violent, or place anonymous phone calls to the administration threatening such violence,” the lawsuit said.

But the U.S. Constitution doesn’t permit hecklers to veto free speech.

The lawsuit argues: “Defendants freely admit that they have permitted the demands of a faceless, rabid, off-campus mob to dictate what speech is permitted at the center of campus during prime time, and which speech may be marginalized, burdened, and regulated out of its very existence by this unlawful heckler’s veto.”

The school used curfew rules, venue restrictions and time mandates against conservatives, while at the same time allowing left-wing speech from former Mexico President Vincente Fox and former Clinton adviser Maria Echaveste – many times on the same topics, the lawsuit said..

By those political tactics, the lawsuit alleges, “defendants have deprived YAF and BCR of their constitutional rights to free speech, due process, and equal protection. Accordingly, YAF and BCR seek temporary and permanent injunctive relief to prevent defendants from continuing to muzzle plaintiffs’ constitutionally protected speech, and to enjoin the defendants’ transparent attempts to stifle political discourse at UC Berkeley.”

The lawsuit alleges the university improperly adopted a secret “high-profile speaker policy” that gives campus officials virtually unlimited discretion to oppose speakers they don’t like.

During attempts to arrange the Horowitz speech, the lawsuit explains, school officials wanted attendance limited and that the location be kept secret “until hours before the event.”

The school also demanded nearly $5,800 for a “security fee.”

“Defendants are further allowing their subjective opinions about the anticipated reactions from critics – including a mob of masked, off-campus, ‘antifa’ – to dictate whether they choose to define a speaker to be subject to the High-Profile Speaker Policy, and thereby impose a host of hurdles to their appearance that do not apply to speakers presumable welcome to the same critical mob (and university administrators),” the lawsuit said.

Study: Genital Mutilation Imposes Segregation on Immigrants’ American Daughters

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by DR. SUSAN BERRY

The imported practice of genital mutilation can segregate hundreds of thousands of American girls from their peers in mainstream American society, say two New York psychologists.

The hidden segregation, however, is being ended by President Donald Trump and his deputies, who announced mid-March a new national campaign against “Female Genital Mutilation” that is commonplace in some immigrant communities.

Genital cutting by immigrant parents “sets these [American victims] apart from the mainstream culture and may complicate their efforts to adjust to life in the United States and cause intergenerational conflict in some families,” according to Adeyinka M. Akinsulure-Smith and Evangeline I. Sicalides, the authors of “Female Genital Cutting in the United States: Implications for Mental Health Professionals.”

Immigrant “parents may consider it important for their [American] daughters to be cut, regardless of the girls’ wishes, as a way to maintain their identity with the family and its [foreign] cultural community of origin. Others may want the girls in their family to undergo FGC as a way to protect them from aspects of American culture,” according to their article published in the October 2016 issue of Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.

Female genital cutting (FGC) and female circumcision (FC) are politically correct terms for the practice of “Female Genital Mutilation.” The process removes part or all of the clitoris, or even all of the external genitalia, in female infants, children or adults. The practice is widespread in Islamic northern Africa, where the most radical versions of the process are inflicted in Somalia. In many cases, the damaged woman is made unable to provide genital lubrication, which is deemed sexually distasteful in some communities that practice FGM.

FGM is in the news because Trump’s deputies at the Department of Justice and the FBI have promised to end the practice — and have already arrested a group of Muslim doctors in Detroit for performing FGM on several American girls. “The practice has no place in modern society and those who perform FGM on minors will be held accountable under federal law,” said the acting U.S. Attorney in Detroit, Daniel Lemisch.

Trump’s effort to save hundreds of thousands of Americans girls from the peculiar institution replaces the say-nothing, see-nothing policy of the pro-immigration,  pro-multicultural policy imposed by former President Barack Obama.

The two New York psychologists are not political activists seeking to reduce and protect the practice as it spreads by immigration into Western Europe and the United States. Instead, they are therapists who help other experts deal with the after-effects of the imported practice.

“[I]t is our professional and ethical responsibility to be informed about this cultural practice, and to possess the awareness, knowledge, and skills to intervene,” the psychologists say.

The psychologist's’ primary concern is that females who have been cut may become patients of U.S. healthcare providers who have no awareness or acceptance of the immigrant practice and may bring “unexamined opinions and attitudes” to their treatment of these females.

Their recommendation is that healthcare providers exempt themselves from the politics, and merely treat FGM as a medical issue. Providers should avoid “pathologizing the experiences of all girls and women who have undergone FGC,” while also familiarizing themselves with the legal issues and physical and psychological complications associated with the procedure, they wrote.

“A thorough understanding of these factors is fundamental to promoting appropriate care for those who have had FGC and for developing effective interventions to prevent new FGC cases in the United States where the practice is illegal,” the authors write.

Akinsulure-Smith and Sicalides attribute the rise of FGM in the United States to the increase in immigration from countries that perform the procedure:

The precipitous rise in women and girls who are affected by FGC reflects a growth in immigration to the United States from countries with high FGC prevalence rates. More specifically, 55% of U.S. women and girls at risk come from Somalia, Egypt, and Ethiopia where the prevalence rates for females ages 15–49 are 98%, 91%, and 74%, respectively (Mather & Feldman-Jacobs, 2015). Sixty percent of these women and girls live in eight states: California, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Washington (Mather & Feldman- Jacobs, 2015).

In the United States, approximately 513,000 females are either at risk of FGM or have already been cut, an estimate that is more than double the 228,000 observed in 2000 and three times more than the 1990 estimate of 168,000, established by the World Health Organization (WHO).

According to WHO, FGM has “no health benefits, only harm.” The immediate consequences of the procedure can include severe pain, excessive bleeding, fever, infections, shock, and even death. Long-term difficulties include urinary problems, sexual and childbirth complications, and psychological issues, says WHO.

Akinsulure-Smith and Sicalides downplay the ties between FGM and Islam, saying the practice is sometimes “required by faith” – though they do not mention Islam or the Muslim faith. FGM, the authors note, is also performed on females to reduce sexual desire in women, assure virginity before marriage, and to increase male sexual pleasure. Additionally, some perform the practice because a woman’s genitalia is viewed as “dirty” and “aesthetically unpleasing.”

FGM became illegal in the United States in 1996, for girls under the age of 18. The practice is viewed as “gender-based torture” and as a “human rights violation,” note the psychologists.

Initially, U.S. law “excluded cultural grounds as a way to justify the practice of FGC,” the authors note. “To circumvent this law, parents and/or guardians sent girls abroad to undergo FGC, usually during the summer months. This practice came to be known as ‘vacation cutting.’” In 2013, however, Congress outlawed the “vacation cutting” practice as well.

Since 1994, 24 states also have criminalized FGM and at least 12 states have made the practice a felony for parents who allow their daughter to undergo the procedure.

States without specific FGM laws utilize their own child protection or child abuse laws as a means of reporting the procedure, Akinsulure-Smith and Sicalides observe. They add, however, that mandated reporters – such as school personnel and healthcare providers – are “often unsure whether FGC constitutes [criminal] abuse and whether they have a legal obligation to report suspected cases of cutting.”

When female children have been cut, they are often hesitant to speak with state authorities for fear their parents or other relatives may be arrested, the authors explain.

The Trump administration Department of Justice has recently announced a national campaign to end the practice of FGM, even as the politically correct attitudes of the establishment’s media has minimized the public’s recognition of the problem among many Muslim immigrant families.

In a joint statement about the media’s failure to identify the exploitation of young girls exposed to FGM, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell and founder of anti-terror group ACT for America Brigitte Gabriel, said:

Where is the outrage? The hypocrisy is staggering. The networks, which have for years championed the causes of left-wing feminists and women’s rights, are conspicuously silent on this case and their silence is deafening. This is real exploitation of young girls and the usual suspects who ought to care have little to say about this form of torture making its way to America. This practice is illegal and immoral. The networks have an ethical responsibility to report that it’s happening here at home. If they don’t, they are guilty of aiding and abetting violence against women out of a politically correct fueled fear of offending Muslims.

Breitbart News recently reported three Detroit doctors have been arrested in what represents the first prosecution in the United States for FGM.

Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, owner of the Burhani Medical Center, and Drs. Fakhruddin Attar and Farida Attar have been charged in the FGM of two seven-year-old girls. Nagarwala was charged with allegedly performing the procedure on the victims, and the Attars – husband and wife – with allegedly being present during the cutting. According to the news report, Farida Attar was allegedly heard on a federal wiretap encouraging the parents of FGM victims “to deny they had brought their daughters to [the] Burhani clinic for the procedure.”

The report continues:

According to the complaint against Nagarwala, the victim's parents brought them to the Detroit area for the gruesome procedure. The girls were told it was to be a “special girls trip.” The parents also allegedly said the cutting would “get the germs out” and that they were not to talk of what happened inside the Burhani clinic.

One of the girls later told the FBI she screamed in pain as she endured what Dr. Nagarwala called “getting a shot.” She then said she was barely able to walk as she left the clinic. Upon examination by doctors working with the FBI, both seven-year-olds were found to have genitalia that was “abnormal looking” with “scar tissue” and “small healing lacerations.”

Nagarwala was trained at Johns Hopkins University, but is reportedly the daughter of two Indian immigrants from the Bohra sect of Shia Muslims.

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