
Leo –con una mezcla de satisfacción y desasosiego- en una noticia que me llega algo tarde, que “El juzgado número 1 de Sant Feliu ha emitido un auto en el que retira el pasaporte a tres niñas gambianas, prohíbe a las autoridades que les expidan este documento hasta que sean mayores de edad y obliga a los padres a llevarlas a una revisión ginecológica cada 6 meses para evitar que sean víctimas de una ablación de clítoris. Este auto ha sido criticado por el cónsul honorario de Gambia en Barcelona, que considera que es ilegal y que vulnera un derecho fundamental como es la libre circulación y criminaliza a los padres” [...] “El auto dicta esta medida para evitar que estas tres niñas corran la misma suerte que sus dos hermanas mayores, a quienes amputaron el clítoris en un viaje a Gambia”.
Ya a partir de los años noventa, diferentes asociaciones de ayuda a inmigrantes, comenzaron a dar la alarma sobre la practica de la ablación en nuestro país, especialmente en Cataluña, donde incluso se juzgo –y se condenó, creo recordar- a una mujer por practicarla.
Y sin embargo, ¿cómo se le explica a un señor de Gambia que mutilar los órganos sexuales de sus hijas, por mucho que sea un uso social completamente normal en su país de origen, está prohibido en España?¿Cómo se le hace entender a este señor que lo que en su sociedad es comportarse como un diligente padre de familia, aquí es un acto criminal?¿Cómo se le explica a las hijas de este señor que con esta decisión judicial no se les está apartando de su sociedad y de sus costumbres si no que se está salvaguardando su integridad física?
Posted by Towsend at Mayo 19, 2004 11:16 AMJodo, la verdad es que a veces la cortina que separa la tradición de la brutalidad es tan debil que algunos se jactan y defienden sintiendo atacado por lo segundo y gritando lo primero.
Todavía en España se tiran cabras de los companarios.
No se le explica, se le cualga por las pelotas tres semanas. Y al despojo que quede se le prende fuego y se le da de comer a los peces.
O al revés, si eso.
Posted by: efe on Mayo 19, 2004 05:52 PMSin ser tan expresivo..
No hace falta explicar nada: vivimos en un país civilizado y no estamos en la edad media. Es señor tendrá que aceptar la legislación española por las buenas o por las malas.
Hace ya mucho que se ha abandonado el criterio de la personalidad por el de la territorialidad para la sumisión a un ordenamiento jurídico, asi que no cabe hablar de "excepciones culturales" y demás tonterias.
Lo que es orden público lo es, y no puede haber excepciones.
Educación, es la clave para solucionar este y otros muchisimos problemas, la educación no es solo cosa de niños, también hace falta para los adultos.
Posted by: MiChAeL on Mayo 20, 2004 03:22 PMLa cuestión es que no existen normas supraculturales que nos digan qué és universalmente bueno y qué es universalmente malo. Los made in USA, por ejemplo, consideran una brutalidad que obliguemos a neustros hijos a comer espinacas o pescado si a ellos no les gusta porque cada uno debe ser libre de elegir lo que ingiere (aunque sea basura). Así pues ¿quién se erige en juez, quién decide hasta dónde, cómo, por qué, cuándo o con qué fines...?
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