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Ngii Ndune!!
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WAKATAA TOHARA!
The Luo Council of Elders says it cannot sanction circumcision, as it is against the community's culture.They say the proposal should not be included in the government's policy on HIV/Aids.
A high prevalence of HIV/Aids has been recorded among the Luo community and experts blame this on cultural practices, such as the practice of wife inheritance.
Researchers say circumcision reduces the risk of HIV infection among men.
Studies have suggested that circumcision protects men from contracting HIV and from passing it on to women, and could be used as a weapon in the fight against the spread of HIV/Aids.
It don't make sense to me but then.........


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wamax
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If its against the Luo culture, its even the more reason why they should accept it. Nowhere does the Luo culture say that you get excommunicated if you cut the offending skin off.

They wont be doing it as a cultural thing, but as a health issue. Like you get a vaccine without bringing in culture. They can continue knocking off the frontal teeth for 'cultural purposes'
 
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Muhuthia
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Culture and customs are not static, they develop and evolve over time. Circumcision here should be seen as a health issue or even a personal hygene issue rather than a cultural issues. As people develop some cultural things become repugnant or outlive their importance and have to be discarded and others adopted.

Luo council of elders would be dominated bu uncut elderly gentlemen therefore their stand is not suprising, however goverment policy on health is a diffrent cup of tea all together.


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Some of you live in Britain or America or other places of the world.

Is it a govt policy in those places for people to get "cut" for health reasons?

Some of you are in countries where "being cut" does not make anyone special.

While I support this "cut policy for hygenic reasons" for our Lake brothers, I would be the last to demonise them if they chose not to.

Cultural matters cannot be made into Govt policy that are forced upon other people.



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Culture and customs are not static, they develop and evolve over time. Circumcision here should be seen as a health issue or even a personal hygene issue rather than a cultural issues. As people develop some cultural things become repugnant or outlive their importance and have to be discarded and others adopted.

Luo council of elders would be dominated bu uncut elderly gentlemen therefore their stand is not suprising, however goverment policy on health is a diffrent cup of tea all together.
 
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Moderator1
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mm,now I see why you are who you are.
mmmmmmmmmmm.


Ngai Wa Kirinyaga Amurathime.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."
 
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