"If there is a pure land under the whole world, then I hope it will come to the kingdom where I was born. ”
"If those are a disgrace, I want it to be destroyed", was the phrase of the journalist during an interview with a circumcised woman in West Africa.
What is circumcision, an ancient African "ritual", is also a terrible practice that has disabled countless young girls.
African girls under deformed etiquette, who have no human rights at all, have to endure a kind of pain every moment, and then follow my footsteps to learn about the evil "rite of passage" in Africa - circumcision.
1. What is circumcision?
Circumcision is said to have originated in Judaism, a contract between humans and God whereby men are required to cut off the foreskin of their penis when they reach adulthood. The woman has to cut off part or all of the nucleus and labia minora, and also suture the vaginal opening.
After this way, the woman will not be able to move for at least a week, lying in bed and suffering untold pain, and you think this is the end of it, because in Africa, where the medical resources are very poor, this kind of circumcision is not even a surgery.
Fortunately, they can use some herbs to stop bleeding, and the folk doctors can do it, which is also experienced for them, and the women can suffer less.
In more backward areas, the circumcision ceremony is carried out directly by the mother, and the tools for disinfection are either a knife for cutting vegetables, or a sharp thorn to cut the underneath.
This will bring a very big safety hazard, the rupture and infection of the lower body is a common thing, and in severe cases, it will affect normal physiological activities, and even die due to improper treatment measures after infection.
Different regions have different customs, and the location of the incision is different, but the most serious is to remove the labia majora completely, leaving only a small hole for urination and menstrual blood, and then suture.
That's right, that's what you think.
Even if the pain is excruciating, it is still necessary to do this, and even if it is distressing for one's daughter, it is necessary to circumcision, because they are also passed down from generation to generation.
This vice has been passed down from generation to generation. Like a man-eating monster, it devours the torsos of the girls little by little, and they are powerless to resist, surrounded by ditches.
This practice was praised and given a fancy name—circumcision
Circumcision in Africa has been practiced for more than 4,000 years, and even today, this cannibalistic religious ritual still exists.
According to official figures, an average of 6,000 women are circumcised every day, and this tragedy is still unfolding.
Not just Judaism, of course, not just African.
The male elders of the family can watch from the side when the circumcision is performed, in other words, each can "visit", and they are more like objects at this time.
If circumcision is so sinful, why has it been around for so many years?
First, due to the backwardness of national ideology and culture, the low quality of the population, the relatively slow economic development, and the large gap between the development of the outside world and the outside world, human nature tends to be more primitive, and many African women often fall into the fate of being bullied, and some men will even insult women regardless of whether they are related by marriage, and some women are pregnant with children, but they cannot find the father of the child.
In order to suppress this phenomenon, circumcision is carried out and the female lower body is sutured together to reduce the occurrence of this condition, and also to maintain the purity of the bloodline.
Married women have to stay at home and take care of their lives, men need to go out to work in order to support their families, and married women at this time have to sew up the underneath in order to keep their chastity, which is also a follow-up to circumcision.
When she grows up, she is circumcised, her vagina is sewn, and when she gets married, her husband's family uses this as a standard to judge whether a girl is chaste, and on the wedding night, the vaginal opening is cut open to be able to have sex with her new husband.
And if the husband has to go out for a long time, he must also sew up the underside to maintain chastity, and open it again the next time he comes back, and he will be tortured by cutting the flesh repeatedly.
Second, some backward cultures use the practice of circumcision to show the process of changing from a girl to a woman.
Third, and most ridiculously, the place where generations of offspring are born is considered dirty and unclean.
The people cried out in rebellion, taking up torches and burning them to the holiest places.
2. Wallis, the flower of the desert
"If all around me is wilderness, then what can't burn me is only the infinite and firm will"
At the age of 32, Wallis boldly demonstrated the African ritual of circumcision to the world, openly challenging the evil practices that had existed for more than 4,000 years.
She is the first woman to make the whole world an enemy, and behind her is a history of cannibalism for thousands of years.
If describing a person in terms of misfortune can convey people's unsparing concern for her, then Wallis's childhood needs to be described in terms of countless misfortunes.
But it wasn't her fault that she was born in Africa.
In the 1960s, Wallis was born in an ordinary Somali family, and she had a very kind mother who poured out her love for her daughter.
But at the same time, Wallis's mother mourns for her, because it means that girls are born to suffer unfair treatment in all aspects, especially in backward African regions.
Wallis is very beautiful and obedient, with beautiful black skin and black curly hair, and her mother always doesn't want Wallis to be circumcised, so she can drag it as long as she can.
But when she was 4 years old, her father's friend came to the house as a guest, and he raped Wallis, who was only 4 years old.
What's even more terrifying is that after the murderer left in style, he was not approved, on the contrary, Wallis's father found out and complained that this was the tragedy caused by his daughter's non-circumcision. In Africa, this kind of thing is commonplace.
The world needs civilization, and this is the mark that distinguishes humans from wild beasts.
When Wallis was 5 years old, the flower was circumcised.
The little girl didn't know what was going to happen, but her mother looked at her and smiled at her, and she was greatly comforted, and in a dilapidated house, an old woman who looked like a doctor walked in, and when she took out a knife, Wallis had no smile on her face, and turned to struggle to get rid of her mother's strong arm, but she couldn't help it.
The knife slashed through her lower body, and the blood gradually spread.
Wallis fainted, there is no painkiller and no disinfectant, this night of heavy rain, the 5-year-old girl launched a high fever, this result is inevitable, there are no anti-inflammatory drugs, you can only rely on your own ability to heal, cut off a piece of meat alive, it is already very good to live.
Her first two sisters lost their lives because of the cannibalistic ritual.
Wallis's mother held her in her arms and prayed to God that her only daughter would survive.
Maybe it was the mother's tears that touched the heavens, or maybe it was Wallis's own strong will, and in the end she survived and became the only sustenance for her mother.
Wallis's mother knew how difficult it was for her, because that's how she came over.
I thought that this girl would always be lucky, but unfortunately God did not fulfill people's wishes, and when she was twelve years old, an old man over 60 years old led five camels to ask for Wallis.
The father was overjoyed and readily agreed to the marriage, 5 camels were too valuable at the time, the father did not ask Wallis what she thought, and she didn't care if she wanted it or not, after all, women are underground, and her life is controlled by her father first, and then by her son.
Wallis tries to escape, and when she asks her mother for help, she takes a secret action on her own, wants to ask her mother for the address of her grandmother's house, and then flees one night.
Of course, the mother knows all this, she is helping Wallis out of the sea of suffering, and she hopes that her daughter will go as far as possible and not end up in her own fate.
Wallis walked for several days, sore, hungry and tired, and finally found a big tree to rest for a while, and met the lion again.
Under the mouth of the blood, the lion actually let the poor little girl go, maybe she didn't bathe for several days and her body was too smelly, or maybe God had mercy and wanted to give the desert flower a way out.
After several twists and turns, Wallis came to her grandmother's house, and her grandmother was very kind to her.
Later, Wallis followed her uncle to London, England under the arrangement of her grandmother.
In a fortuitous circumstance, Wallis was handed a business card by Princess Diana's photographer, and her tall figure and excellent golden ratio figure quickly made this "black girl" an instant hit on the international stage.
3. Declare war on cannibalism
Wallis retreated when she got a boyfriend, and when her friend asked her, she showed her friend her nakedness, and her friend was puzzled and surprised why Wallis was like this, and said that she had never experienced so-called circumcision.
Wallis suddenly became miserable, it turned out that there was only her own abnormality, and the friends around her had never been treated like this.
Wallis wants to make a film about it, using herself as a prototype to announce to the world that even now, there are still ugly customs in this world, and girls are subjected to this inhumane treatment every day.
The name of the movie "Desert Flower" not only carries the mother's good wishes for herself, but also contains the blessing of all the girls who have been circumcised, wishing that all of them can become a desert flower and have the ability to fight back against evil.
As soon as the film was released, it caused a strong response, and the United Nations even set up a special investigation team to deal with the matter and protect the rights and interests of women.
After years of hard work, this phenomenon has finally improved.
However, it still exists in some backward areas, corroding people's hearts.
This reminds me of Mr. Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman", I opened the history to check, this history has no age, and the words "benevolence, righteousness and morality" are written on each leaf crookedly. I couldn't sleep horizontally and vertically, and after reading it carefully for half the night, I could see the words in the cracks, and there were two words written all over the book that were "cannibalism"!"
Behind feudal etiquette is the decline of culture, and today's society should not "eat people".
The story ends abruptly here, but those backward ignorance does not stop encroaching on it for a moment......