The news story that Snopes is disputing here did not originate with Jihad Watch, but with Maine State Media, which Snopes claims, without offering any evidence to support its claim, is a “shaky source.” So why do they bring in Jihad Watch at all, since we did not originate the story (we posted it here, with a link to Maine State Media)? Probably because we have previously exposed Snopes to be not the neutral fact-checker it claims to be, but yet another Leftist propaganda outfit, purveying soothing falsehoods about Muhammad and falsely claiming that a New Jersey town had not forbidden criticism of Islam, when that is exactly what it had done.

So in this case, Snopes, apparently smarting from being exposed, makes a story about Maine from a Maine media outlet that we picked up and excerpted into a heinous falsehood that is our fault.

And in this case yet again, Snopes gets the facts wrong. Yes, FGM has been illegal since 1996, but there have been exactly two prosecutions for it since then, both new and ongoing, so it was perfectly reasonable for Maine legislators to think that if they passed a new law specifying criminal penalties for female genital mutilation, it might spur actual prosecution of those who engage in this practice. But Maine House Democrats removed all criminal penalties from the bill as they passed it. Yes, that is allowing for female genital mutilation. Those who are discovered practicing FGM in Maine will be, according to the new bill, referred for counseling. It says nothing about prosecuting them under the 1996 law or anything else.

Once again the vaunted “fact-checker” Snopes is exposed as just another Leftist water-carrier, not a reliable source of accurate information.

“Did Maine House Democrats Vote to Allow Female Genital Mutilation?,” by Kim LaCapria, Snopes, April 25, 2018: