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Richard W. Painter
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The district court was probably correct as a matter of constitutional law and separation of powers, but it is critically important that states criminalize the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) and enforce those criminal laws. Torturing girls is not a religion.
The connection between female genital mutilation (FGM) and Islam is as remote as the connection between terrorism and Islam. The overwhelming majority of Muslim Americans don’t sympathize with people who commit either crime. We can enforce our laws without being bigots.
The comparison of female genital mutilation (FGM) with circumcising male infants is not only medically incorrect but a disgusting excuse for allowing the torture of young girls. Women’s rights advocates should be outraged.
The states should enforce criminal laws against FGM now.
The entire point of FGM is to assure that only men enjoy sex. Torture of girls is “justified” in order to accomplish that perverse objective.
The comparison to circumcision of infants is medically incorrect and obscene.
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