I would like to know what Barack Hussein Obama has to say about these genital mutilations occuring in his father’s home town.

… yet the UN singles out Israel for less. Via AP:

In the violence that has followed Kenya’s disputed presidential election, a notorious gang has been mutilating the genitals of both men and women in the name of circumcision — inflicting a brutal punishment on members of a rival tribe that does not traditionally circumcise. Many of the mutilation victims belong to the Luo tribe of opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga, say witnesses and even a recruiter for the gang itself.

The gang, called the Mungiki, draws mostly from President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe, which has long dominated politics and business in this East African country.

Mungiki, which means “multitude” in Kikuyu, originally promoted traditional Kikuyu practices, including female genital mutilation. But in recent years it has become involved in extortion and murder and it also provides hired muscle for politicians.

On a related note, Barack Hussein Obama’s father, Barack Obama, Sr. was born in Nyanza Province, Kenya, of Luo ethnicity. He died in an auto accident in 1982. In August 2006, Barack Hussein Obama and his family visited his father’s birthplace, a village near Kisumu in rural western Kenya. You can read about it here: “Obama Receives Hero’s Welcome at His Family’s Ancestral Village in Kenya“, “Walking the World Stage“, “Africa: Kenya Glimpses a New Kind of Hero“.

And the religion of the Luo ethnicity? I would presume Islam. For more information on Kenya, see the CIA’s World Factbook entry.

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