Opponents have dubbed the practice "genetial mutilation" and insist that its purpose is to oppress female sexuality. For the first time, a Traditional African Priest tells it like it is: the purpose, meaning and tradition of excision.

Media, universities, and in brief, all the destructive machines of our so-called modern civilization, surprisingly do not care about how ridiculous they look. It has been more than 500 years since we understood that everything is simply directed against Africa, Black people, and people of color. When, in the 1940s of the Gregorian Calendar, Hitler was telling his people that he was planning to build a vast Nazi empire on the ruins of Christianity and primitive civilizations, he pushed diverse kinds of people to unify their strength with the goal of saving what we like to call humanity.

I remember when I was a young boy attending European colonial school. My experience then should not be any different from any colonialized youngster anywhere in the world. What we learned about Nazism then dramatically resembles what we now see as the attitudes of the modern-day society. In Africa, before I even started understanding my own culture, there were the schools of the White man trying to teach me that the traditional religion was the one leading to hell and that polygamy, excision and traditional healing were the initiation of Satan!!! Nowadays, we can see it was a coincidence that polytheism, polygamy, excision and medicinal plants are the greatest pillars of the Black man's civilization.

I know that when we look at these concepts from the position of the individual that is educated in this system of non-culture, we are at risk of finding them unacceptable; but this is simply the proof of how we have been transformed by the colonial forces. All is a matter of the "reality" that is imposed by force. The civilization of the people of color is seen like a reservoir towards which the modern man directs his attention only when he is short of concepts or ideas. This is his way of trying to face the boredom of the life without culture. A person of color is simply reduced to the state of apathy just like a part of the environment in which the culture of non-culture evolves; like a fruit that is infested with worms or a tree that is parasited by other plants.

Now that the system has gained land on polygamy, polytheism and herbal healings, what is the logical argument our scientists are bringing against excision? Politics are saying that it is a way to oppress women, but let's be a bit more serious. The cultures that are practicing excision also practice circumcision, and the only reason why our politics are not daring to attack circumcision is because it was adopted by Judaism. All the other arguments that are brought by those who want to see in excision the will of a man to deny a woman her sexual pleasure do not even deserve the honor of being mentioned in these lines.

There is a popular proverb that says that when you want to drown your dog, you accuse it of madness. It is simply surprising for me to see that a system that has presented itself as a system of intelligence goes this low in its vicious attack against other people. From the political soap operas, the loser is known in advance. It is the people themselves, whether they are American or non-American. Our people are not asking for anything more than what any kind of people would ask: their right for self-determination.

And it is by accepting that principle that we will succeed in allowing all sorts of societies to freely evolve on the path through which they choose to look for the truth. The most surprising aspect of this international politico-intellectual conjunction is to see that a system that is not any older than 500 years is trying to teach values to the oldest civilization on Earth, and that it thinks that it has enough basis from which it can teach any lesson to the world. It is like an individual that is trying to cut the branch of a tree on which he is sitting.

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