She was female circumcision at age 3, and at 13 she was married off to an old man - Movie Recap
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- Waris Dirie (Liya Kebede) escapes from the horrors of Somalia to work in London, where a photographer (Timothy Spall) and an agent (Juliet Stevenson) turn her into a top supermodel.
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The Somali man shaming her made me so upset. He probably saw many healthy happy vaginas when he moved to the country but looked at hers which needed help and shamed her
I wish they would leave their disgusting habits when they come over here, especially arranged marriages,
Like if they wanna keep doing inhumane things, they can stay where they’re from
I worked as a receptionist at a sexual assault crisis centre. They held group therapy for victims of female genital mutilation. So many women passed thru those doors.
What about male genital mutilation?
Instead of helping her, the Somalian male nurse just made it worse! 😣 BUT I am happy that she has control of her own mind and still decided to do the surgery 🥲
And she circumcised her own son. What a hypocrite.
@@Mathias-kz5dr For males tho, its not a bad thing nor will it give them great pain all throughout their lives. Even Jesus was circumcised for religious reasons but nowadays, most people do it for health reasons. On the other hand, males dont have to be circumcised to be healthy. My 9month old isnt circumcised. I will let him make that decision when he is older
@@desiannwilliams1852 Good decision! I am circumcised (mutilated would be a better term) and I suffer greatly. And I know many who do. There are no benefits at all!
@@Mathias-kz5dryou understand English right?
@@Mosquito-xt3jk No, I just write it. And I speak it. But I don’t understand it. Do you understand logic?
I remember this model and her story very well. It's because of her that people in the U. S. Came to be familiarized with this brutal tradition for young girls. Since she publicly spoke about what happened to her, there are now several documentaries about this. Even a very graphic one where the cameraman gets really close as an older woman circumcise a small girl who is wailing in tortured pain. You can see the blood. I had to stop watching it.
I watched it and it was hard
@@keyakenner852 I understand completely. Thank you so much for responding.
What’s the name of the model
@@carolynfair453 Waris Dirie, the woman of the movie. It's a autobiographical movie.
I saw that. That was it for me as well. Sewing them up is insane to me. Having no idea how the female vagina works obviously.
Very sad. Nothing to do with religion just another way of controlling women. 😢
Very sad
I agree with you, that needs to stop
@@rachaeladams61Me too
Wrong. It’s an Islamic practice.
Exactly.
Evil cultures go to great lengths to subdue and traumatize girls and women, because women have a special power which they fear ... !
If y’all are wondering what the name of this movie is it’s called "Desert Flower".
Thank u ...i was looking for it
@@jazzkerto4603 Yw
I cried watching this whole video
Thank u😊
Thank you 😊
This horrific practice is still very common in African countries. The idea behind it is twofold - that having a clitoris makes women sexual beings but most importantly that no man but her husband can have sex with her, and he will know she is a virgin because he will have to cut her open on the wedding night and I mean cut with a knife, because she is stitched together. The health problems and the pain women are left with are beyond belief, and yet it is usually an appointed woman in the community who does this to girls when they are little. It is utterly barbaric. I don't know why so little is known about it in Europe and America.
I still don't understand, why are only women's circumcision people perform what about male circumcision, I'm sure that exists, but they just don't want to perform it. Because men are valued over women.
Because we are not primitive savages who would have such ideas. The Muslims of Africa need to know that this is how we see them, & it makes us despise them. Join the 21st century! 🤬
My heart goes out to these poor girls that have to endure this.
Somalian girls are some thee most beautiful women in the world. It makes me very sad that this inhumane tradition is continued even in today's time.
What uhuman tradition are you talking about?
@@idirishassan4081 (Didn't you watch the video??)
@@desratlinda8639 exactly.
It shouldn't make you sad it has nothing to do with you
Um not EVERYONE HAS THE SAME RELIGION IT IS COSTOMERY IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
How sad that we as mothers do not protect our daughters from this horrible issue put on us by fables..
Please only speak for yourself. Its a Generational thing. When everyone in your family think using toothpaste is normal and the rest of the world not. Its not the mothers fault. Its brainwashing from Generation to Generation. Africa espicially aethopia is another world. Its different from what we know in the west. So please dont blame the mothers as they are victims too abd just not know better.
Some women can't even protect themselves, so how can they protect their children? It's a learnt behaviour and a vicious cycle!
In some tribes it’s the women who insist on the practice continuing. There’s an unfortunate group mindset of I had to go through it so you do, too.
When a practice continues for 3000 years and that's what you heard growing up that you are supposed to do, you can't imagine anything else than that
When I was pregnant with our son my husband said he wanted him circumcised like he was. I told him he had no say in it until he could watch a video of what the newborn would be subjected to. He couldn't finish it. Our son is intact. There's only so far you can justify poor decision making with ignorance. Now granted, I had the ability to look for myself and advocate for the good of our baby but those women have to be willing to hear different. The Jewish circumcision is far removed from the Abrahamic circumcision. They were only supposed to cut the foreskin that hangs below the glans. The Jews assumed a covenant that didn't belong to them in the first place and used it as a means of controlling their people. They decided to remove the whole thing so the men couldn't later hide that they'd been circumcised. The whole situation is a mess. Circumcision is so prevalent in Africa because biblical Isrealites are Africans. That's also why the Arab and transatlantic slave trade happened the way it did. They converted to Islam because Islamic law forbids enslaving Muslims. They're Hebrews by blood. Most of them. The semitic line, Shemites, spread across the continent like a wild fire. Anyway, wicked people have used religion as an excuse to control and abuse people for as long as there has been organized religion. That's why it's so important that people start talking and expose these things. Women were not supposed to be cut in the first place. Neither Christian, Jew, or Muslim. It's a desecration of the female body.
Fun fact: Waris Dirie wrote a book about the little girl who played her in the mutilation scene and how they save from becoming a real-life victim. It's called Saving Safia, Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM.
This is known to be done in Liberia too reasons why my father didn't raises his kids there
that doesn't justify it, this practice is completely wrong and brutal
@@palakraj6024, What? She says nothing about justifying. She is just saying that the circumcision being done in Liberia is why her father did not raise the kids there. I don't know what you are trying to get at. Your comment makes no sense with what she is trying to say.
@@CatherineLee3000 I get it. its just that the practice is too brutal and her father was one smart man.
That is disgusting .those poor girls. Why do they do such a thing
But yet you still watch the Movie and pay attention to this kinda stuff so no you don't think it's desgusting so don't Lie
@ro you are very s l o w. 😂
islam
@@shxnx3646culture pratice idiot😂I am a somali Girl to, but u non muslim / non somalis want to be our savior so bad. FGM have excited Long before christianity and islam. And some Christian in africa also pratice his old traditional practice😂Nice trie
@@ro-fz1jtshe is talking about the men who do this and is calling the PRACTICE disgusting. Not the video.
what an inhumane custom 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
How terrible and sad 😢unbelievable the things that some people go through!
Thank you so much for showing this video and letting us know that one person can make a difference no matter who they are or where they come from and that everyone has a voice and deserves to be heard.
I remember watching this years ago and thinking it couldn’t happen here in America. Later I found out it happens here and in the UK till this very day. I mean yeah it’s illegal but it’s still a thing.
Really in the uk?!
Forced marriages too. It's disgusting they're sneaking in barbaric practices against human rights into developed countries. Just because it's a 'culture' and 'we've always done it that way' doesn't make it right.
Nah sorry. I'm gonna need to know where you picked that lie up from. In the US. No child born in a US hospital would be returned to its parent. And if a child is out of school tok many days for say recovering from that horrible act, the police and social worker are coming to the home. if they suspect anything like that to jail you go then deported asylum or not. People here don't go for that ish or honor killings. They still got the Cia out looking g for that man in texas who unalived his 2 girls, and his sons still rot in jail. I hope they pray everyday asking was it worth your life. They know better across the country. That does not work here. No more than if I went to their country and tried to live in my American customs. And im putting it nicely. People who do that are nor treated nicely here for that. Many come up missing. It's no better but I do understand. They must learn. Or go back home. .
Such a sad story, but I wondered, did she ever get back to her brother?
That is very sad. I’m glad they band forever. She is so beautiful . One of the most beautiful I’ve seen. I’m glad she told her story so it can be stop.
I can't imagine how badly this would affect someone and I feel its is important to be respectful of other religions and beliefs but if someone is being hurt in this way it's not ok . I really hope that everywhere this is band it is wrong. I think that its really good that she told her story and I'm sure that is wasn't easy to tell and she didn't know how others would respond but to so many people I think just the thought of this is awful and she lived this . She is very strong and brave and beautiful and she probably saved so many lives with telling her and others storys.
Religion oversteps the line when they try to force people to get circumcisions, or try to change people's identities, etc. So-called religion is just a poor excuse for torturing someone mentally and physically. Of course, not all religions are like this, but those who are, are giving religion a bad name. I stop respecting religion when things get severe like this, and are just being toxic. Toxicity is not welcome in this world.
@@CatherineLee3000 sorry but are you lot stupid? Did you even watch the video? This practice has nothing to do with religion, this is very ancient AFRICAN culture that has been practices long before any religions. Its african CULTURE not religion.
This practice has nothing to do with religion. It's a backward and barbaric tradition.
I wonder which religion would allow this.
How awful and cruel
This movie touched my soul ..i am from london and have my beautiful Somalian friends that have gone through this ordeal peace and love and kindness and blessing and understanding and education what needs to happen in these countries not ignorance and pain in every dark space there is a beautiful bright light never give up hope
Sad and pitiful, Father God please all these very young girls.
Someone was in new York city an was going to circumcise a young girl but they were caught before it happened v😊😊
Michigan too in recent years.
Thank goodness that they were caught! They saved a young girl from health issues and mental scars that the circumcision could have caused, if the person was not caught! Nobody should go through these circumcisions.
My god- every day????? I am shocked… I knew a bit about this topic but not that it’s still being used so frequently - that’s sad and sadistic big time…. Poor girls - against their will with dirty things and nasty environments - I can’t even begin to imagine - even if it was done in a sterile hospital it’s still barbaric and unnecessary…. So so sad!!
Yes it is but whats disturbing is how normilised people treat male circumsicion when its just as disgusting
Sadly Child SA is even more common every day. It’s a sick world. Hold your loved ones close and try to protect the innocent however you can.
@@informationyes no lol, male circumcision is beneficial to health. Nothing wrong with it.
@@informationyes It is not at the same level. Majority of the world has been doing it. All Muslims and Jews it is mandatory. And is cleaner that way. Whereas absolutely unnecessary on females and unbelievably painful. As you are cutting of a literal body part attached to the genitalia. Whereas males have a foreskin which doesn’t do anything when it is cut off, it can just leave some tenderness and itchiness behind. Consider that to women who do it. And no offense but your comment screams “white lives matter” vibes or that annoying male voice when women have their sufferings and men come into explain how they are somehow also victims.
@@Sandra-1wiq people doing it doesn't make it right one bit, weave done lots of things before that we no longer now because we know its wrong, religious doesn't make it ok also, except for a few rare conditions there's no proper need to to cut the foreskin and men can simply clean better if they want NOW this is the same as its the non concentional altering of the body which is what it wrong and unfair, the invasiveness of it is irrelevant
Thank You for the recap. I love true stories that bring facts to movie adaptations.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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@@movie_recappWhat's the original movie name? I would like to watch
@@JJ-ui9fm
Desert Flower
You should post the names of your film recaps.
it is a crime and they should be prosecuted
It's not a crime in some countries. Are you going to prosecute all of Somalia... 😂?
@@glewglew9852not all people in that country do it so no ,but It should be a crime because most people did not consent to that happening to them ,it changes their life forever and it’s mutation
It’s hard for me I always feel bad 😞 I wander what will happen after my marriage my boyfriend doesn’t know this and I can’t tell him I’m from Somalia
Better to be honest and let him know before hand, it shouldn’t matter if he’s a good man.
What a sad life of her
I can't even fathom
In the beginning, property was controlled by the women because they made the kids. Male parentage was ďuscovered later and the battle was on! Property value went to the men and the strangest customs were developed regarding virginity, vaginal mutilation, female segregation and such so paternity could be secured and Property inherited along the masculine line.
This is so sad ! 😢 girls do not get circumcised in Islam this is not religion but ONLY Somalian culture…..
Check ur scriptures it's there
Millions of case....
Not only in Somalian culture but in many African and Asian cultures unfortunately 😢😭
@@aaania9034 Sweetie, there is nowhere in the Quran where it says to sew up a woman's abdomen, and such an operation is life-threatening. Islam forbids anything that is harmful and life-threatening to a person, So, I suggest that you stop speaking out of ignorance.
@@sumyiiH You right but the prophet mohamed said just cut the girls upper vaginal tip so they dont get into sina which is sunnah other than that is haram
I read the book when I was a teenager. The tears just kept falling. I'm still scared
How can a mother do this to their daughter?
Why do you guys never give the freaking movie title?
So sad..
I blame the un for not getting involved. Terrible what these poor humanbeings indore. God bless them and keep them safe from harm.
Omg!..This Made Me Cry!..Barbaric!..Crude!..& Ever So Cruel!!!!
OMGosh I think I am going to go throw up now. How atrocious this barbarous heinous act is!
This crime needs to be exposed.
It's illegal now it's 15years off prison any parents who does that to their children
I am last generation who's been true all this
Why is it so hard to give the name of the movie?
The name of the movie is written below. You just might not have seen it. The movie has a name “Desert flower”
It's not there, but thanks I already found out.
I remember watching that movie in philosophy class,the last day of school. I had my eyes shut and could not dare to look at the screen during Waris 's genital mutilation.
What a sad life of their
Wow shes gorgeous. Im glad they showed the real her at the end.
My mind is blown
And this is not from Islam.
We both know the truth
Its truly not. The practice is called “Fircawni” in somali or Pharaoh if you translate. As all muslims know, The Pharaoh of Eygpt during Moses (Musa)’s time was a truly horrific and despised man in Islam. So clearly a practice named after him is not from Islam.
Islam has merged togheter with traditional life. So therefore it is counted by the believers as something derived from their most important scripture.
Just as egyptian young men kills their Mother if she is remarried after her first man dies. They claim that it is what the quran wants (but there is nothing writen about it in the book). It is the borders between faith and tradition that has been blurred.
Great story
Thanks for listening
One time me and my friend were talking about something when one of my other friend just randomly says, "You look Somalian"
How awful and so cruel
This is so sad, beautiful lady. Her story was very interesting and hurtful to imagine. With a "? Why.
What is the title of the movie
Dessert flower author has shared the name
May I ask the title of the movie?
Desert flower
The little girl playin waris is djiboutian 🇩🇯 & the film was filmed in Djibouti since Somalia isn't a save country. Majority of the people in the film are all Djiboutians
They are all somalis maybe they from djibouti but their ethnic is somali
Name of the movie
Tis movie is incredible!
If one believes in god or a higher power then mutilating a human's body because it is "unclean" is an affront against the almighty. It's blasphemy.
You really do Love the word short
Can anyone tell me what’s the name of this movie?
Desert flower
What's the name of this movie
Name of movie please
name of the movie plz
Title, please??
my heart goes out to these girls...it might be a custom but it is one that needs to change.
It still happens in Egypt for one country I know about - Vast majority are mutilated - How can they be so cruel and primitive? Severe punishments should be regularly enforced.
Title of the movie please
Desert flower
And you didn't List the name of the Movie
Desert Flower. The uploader shared her name, so it was easy to google. Yes?
What movie is this ?
Very sad to hear so many girls going true a circumcision it should be illegal doing this to small girls and boys.i am apauled and outraged by hearing this where are the protection for this children.
I'd love to see this movie.❤
Title of the movie
they do it the UK ... just because the headlines fade doesn't mean its gone away ... far from it ... our children's services are unfit for purpose and have no intention of tackling the subject when it comes to diversity
What's the title of the movie?
Desert Flower
It’s supposedly against the law here in the US but it still happens. There was even a female doctor who was arrested for performing this barbaric act.
What's the movie named
Desert flower
@@movie_recapp Thank you for your recap, &for the original movie's name! This is such an ugly truth of our world. My heart breaks for these babies, &for the women they grow into.
@@movie_recapp I saw this movie long ago but I remember it very well.
Wat is the name of the movie
Desert Flower
I think this is a real life story, I think the real life girl was on Oprah
It based true story and some somali girls suffer the same 😢
Oprah isnot somali and this is not sad they make the somali tradition look like this but this is really good tradition and the somali women and men are happy to have it
@@idirishassan4081 , how in the hell is this backward practice okay?! She was 3 years old. She cannot give consent! She was a baby.
@@AJyoursweetgirl Who wants her consent if their parents are oky with it they are her gaurdians protectors and can give consent of their child life
@@idirishassan4081 read my original comment I never said Oprah was Somali, I said the real life girl was on the Oprah show to tell her story
I think the movie is desert flower.
I watched this one
I had to take a break of a few days to watch this whole thing, its awful just kmowing about it made me sick i cant imagine what they go through.
Traditional brutal assaults can only be stopped through education and awareness. Educate every woman that she is not a slave.
I didn't realize it was so frequent 😮😢
So like how we just forgot about her brother and we never see him again
Unbelievably cruel 😢😢
Warris is an amazing person.
It's horrible to hear some of these stories.
Ive seen this movie its a true story…Today she is one of the most beutuiful models
I can’t remember when, or where. Maybe a Readers Digest article??
But I read a story about the same. I remember she couldn’t urinate properly and that it was painful, until she had surgery, and how blissful it was to fully empty her bladder in one go.
Unfortunately, the pleasurable feelings during intimacy can never be replaced. Why would they take this away?
I would never pass judgement over other countries ways, and I’m sorry, but this is just cruel and barbaric.
She Was beautiful
This is a horrifyingly vile practice, and must be stopped.
Practices like this is to prevent the woman from cheating or to have any feelings down there to cheat
But instead of leading a peaceful life, nurturing any loved ones, by the very act of becoming a "model" who parades her skin or facial beauty (often there is pathetically foolish non-committal sexual activity in that industry for money, fame or lust) she proved their point that there is some tendency of female promiscuity and it is disgusting. That stupid practice was wrong, her lifestyle choice after she escaped to the modern sexual degenerate metropolitan West (instead of choosing the lifestyle of wholesome countryside lifestyle of the West) was also wrong. She could have led a life showing the good tendencies of females (being a loving wife / mother / aunt etc., serving etc., being affectionate, caring), thus showing that those dumb practices were not needed but literally by becoming a hoe-like woman she proved their point that the female promiscuity trait can come out in a degenerate environment and it needs to be curbed.
(No sex is not bad. Female genital desire for male is not bad. But WITHIN the beautiful structure of marriage which requires both male and female doing their respective duties for each other till death, being good parents to any children, going through ups and downs of life, continuing a blessed home.)
Cheating😂 it a conservative country. It social suicide and u Get punished for cheating (men and woman) So I dont Get the point of this culture/ traditional pratice. I am somali.
@@messi-mk3cq as a Liberian woman that's the god on his truth only men get the pleasure of your body
@@SmileyScorpio27shame on you. I hope you never have any daughters to harm in this world.
@Smiley Scorpio Does not at all sound justly or godly but a man-made delusion convincing the society to do so just for them. If God's truth is also equality why the contradiction?
Yep true story 😮😮😢😢
WHO will pay for this operation? The parents want to sell the daughter as a virgin and the NHS has to pay the costs ?
Why do women always have to go through pain?
It is the wat they controll women...
butcher girl child...🙏❤️💦🦋⚘️
Somali women are so beautiful. Just surreal.
They did this to my beautiful mother from the age of five years those people are horrible they do these tortures without anaesthetic 😢 I hope Virys got healed.
Just that for the sake of men 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
No just ancient tradition. I am somali but dont see the point of it. It inhuman and Somalia is conservative country. Woman and men dont interact with eachother before marriage. No,They just do it to follow the tradition ( because our ancestor did it)
And still happens till today so sad
Movie name plz?
Read the comments. The title is mentioned several times.
It is dislike in Islam to do that to a female. It was not recomended by the Prophet SwS.
It has nothing to do with Islam really, as it is a custom followed by a variety of African peoples (those who have no education) and they aren't of the same faith.
@@hilaryc3203 Hello do your research. The Prophet sws did not agreed on it. So Islam is a way of life .
@@seemangal123 I don't give a rat's ass about prophets. They were just people spinning tales and crap. And, you misinterpreted my comment.
@@seemangal123who is prophet sws ?
@@hilaryc3203
I never sed it is from Islam, I sed 'it is not allowed or accepted 'because it causes malfunction to the female's vagina