For decades, anti-FGM activists have fought idea FGM//C is Islamic/religious. e.g. #Egypt Muslims AND Christians subject girls to FGM/C
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And now Alan Dershowitz wants to lock it in as an issue of "religious liberty."That is a fucking disaster of monumental proportions.
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The community which hired Dershowitz can afford him.So this is a toxic mix of misogyny & money and as always girls are thrown under the bus.
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And this is happening at a time of heightened racism & Islamophobia in the
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And the "community" is very wary and reluctant to make Muslims look bad or give Islamophobes ammunition so will continue disgraceful silence
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And who pays the price? Who always pays the fucking price? Girls.
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It is anti
#FGM day in#Egypt today. And today in#USA, a constitutional lawyer is arguing FGM/C must be defended as a "religious liberty"8 replies 33 retweets 32 likes -
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Mona Eltahawy Retweeted Yuval Ginbar
On the
#FGM case in the#USAhttps://twitter.com/yginbar/status/875000431910547457 …Mona Eltahawy added,
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To be clear: I oppose all forms of genital cutting of children -girls, boys & intersex children. Children cannot consent to changes to body.
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But also to be clear: circumcision of boys is far less drastic than female genital cutting. The foreskin does not equal the clitoris.
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did any of the girls in Michigan have their clitoris cut off?
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