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For many girls, school holidays means FGM “cutting season”

endfgmtoday August 10, 2017 August 10, 2017at-risk girls, Somalia

Asha Ali Ibrahim, 41, has been performing female genital mutilation (FGM) on girls in Diaami, Hargeisa and other parts of Somalia since 1997. July and August are her busiest months of the year. “This is the peak season, when parents bring their children to be cut,” she told UNFPA. July,…

Daily Beast: Combating FGM is not Islamophobia

endfgmtoday April 9, 2017 April 9, 2017Immigrants, Islam, Religious practice, Somalia

“Combating FGM/C in Muslim communities therefore is not an act of anti-Muslim xenophobia or ‘Islamophobia,’” Qantas Ahmed writes in the Daily Beast. “It is a defense of human rights and the duty of every American to stop. The practice of FGM/C is not religious freedom.” by Qantas Ahmed, The Daily…