hi To all Liberians There is somethings I saw on the internet. and I just don't believe it. when I was little my mom use to tell me about this, I still not believe it. What is wrong with you people. why are you guys doing this king uh stuff to the young girls and men in Liberia. That is so not good. don't you guys know that lot of people from around the world read your websit everyday and Night. I don't understand, why will people do that kind of stuff. this is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo not gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the hell is Secret Association. When the girls and men go in there,and you people said they shouldn't tell anyone what they did in there. This sucks. I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo angry to hear about this. How people going to take Liberia to be? You guys need to answer that.

It is mind boggling that even an elected official thinks that mutilating little girls is a good thing. Of course, it is defended under the guise of “culture” and “tradition”. Okay, lets talk about a few “cultures” and “traditions”, both from with in and without Africa. How about slavery? It has an ancient tradition, and many cultures were built around slave labor, and/or the money made by dealing in human life. Will they defend this? Should it be allowed in Liberia today? How about a sovereign king who has absolute power of life and death at his whim? Perhaps they should have one now, so that he can give his blessing to the mutilation of children. Oh, and let us not forget a rigid caste system, which dictates what you may or may not be allowed to do in life. If you’re born into a family of scrap pickers, than that is all you will ever be allowed to be, no matter your talent(s) or mental ability. Another great tradition in virtually all cultures for most of the history of mankind would be one that Catherine Khasu must love : Complete male domination of everything. No need for and female to go to school, or to even dream of doing anything besides doing what her man tells her, and if he doesn’t like it, well, another great tradition is the ability to beat or kill her with impunity. Yes, cultures and traditions have their place in the world, but where civilized people reside, they know to throw off the vestiges of ignorance and pure, unadulterated foolishness. Apparently, Grand Mount County is no where near civilized, and is run by sadistic barbarians.

Most of us Liberians are only good at crticizing and offer no alternative solution to the problem they critcize. FGM has been practiced for centuries and it is part of our people's culture. And let me point here that I am in know way saying it's the right thing to do. What our leaders need to do is make laws that will deterred people from practicing FGM or if they continue, then it should be perform clinically. I think there should be a law that will leave children to decide for themselves and not their parents. An education process should be initiated discretely to educate girls about not only the bad side of FGM but also the good side if their is any. There are a lots of secret societies around the world, and in democracies such as the USA, people are left to join on their own accord, like for example the KKK. Ex-members of the KKK don't go public exposing the secrets of the clan. I am a proud Cape Mountainian that believes in democracy. I refuse for my three little girls to be initiated in Sande (Where FGM is performed) because I believe it is a decision that they should make themselves when they mature enough to make their own decisions. This is what we all should do to educate our people in the rural areas who thinks the practice of FGM is a cultural stigma.

To all those who do not know: FGM is practiced all over Africa ( I mean in every African country), in the Middle East, and parts of Eastern Europe. So dont make it sound like an entirely Liberian problem/evil.