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Activists say religion is key in combating female genital mutilation [View all]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/activists-say-religion-is-key-in-combating-female-genital-mutilation/2012/10/26/62f5e2e0-1f9f-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_story.htmlBy Omar Sacirbey| Religion News Service, Published: October 26
BOSTON The one thing that Afrah Farah will tell you about her genital cutting experience is that it happened. She doesnt want to say how old she was, where it happened, or who was or wasnt with her.
Yet, despite the painful memories that the experience evokes and her concerns about peoples reactions, Farah, said she knows she has to speak out.
Its basically a traumatizing experience. Its traumatizing for every young girl that goes through that. Its something that sticks in your memory, and physically, said Farah, a Somali immigrant who came to the Boston area by way of Kuwait and Germany in 2007, and now works as a drug developer in a Massachusetts laboratory.
There are millions of people who are affiliated with this procedure parents, grandparents, people in the community and to label them all as bad people or barbaric, thats wrong. You will push them away. To solve a problem like this, you need to approach people with respect.
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On other threads, it has been claimed by some believers that culture and religion are inseparable.
trotsky
Oct 2012
#4
cbayer, you yourself have said that male circumcision is OK if done out of religious...
trotsky
Oct 2012
#3
You have probably seen it, but the 2 part Frontline documentary "Half the Sky" has
cbayer
Oct 2012
#6
Who has said it's purely cultural? I think the case being made is that it is both cultural
cbayer
Nov 2012
#19