[davidboyd] Cool Papa Boyd: Define brutality

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Posted by Cool Papa Boyd:
Define brutality
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   [1]Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

     Then the scissors went down between my legs and the man cut off my
     inner labia and clitoris. I heard it, like a butcher snipping the
     fat off a piece of meat. A piercing pain shot up between my legs,
     indescribable, and I howled. Then came the sewing: the long, blunt
     needle clumsily pushed into my bleeding outer labia, my loud and
     anguished protests, Grandma's words of comfort and encouragement.
     "It's just this once in your life, Ayaan. Be brave, he's almost
     finished." When the sewing was finished, the man cut the thread off
     with his teeth.
     That is all I can recall of it.

   She was five.

References

   1. http://www.amazon.com/Infidel-Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali/dp/0743289684/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-8220156-4551206?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175899785&sr=8-1