Exactly....and 
there are even some who even dare say the same about male circumcision.....
Perhaps WHO and UNESCO will join forces with member states to comat the problems where they exist


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> From: Ginny Quick <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2006/11/27 må AM 03:38:10 CET
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Ämne: Re: Sabuni and FGM (Libraries in the Sand Reveal Africa's Academic Past
> 
> Greetings, right...
> 
> 
>      I think that most of us can agree that FGM is a harmful practice that needs to be stopped. 
> The disagreement, though, might be how to go about doing it.  And forcing youg girls to undergo
> exames, as well as criminalization of the practice, I don't think will work.  Because you're
> demonizing groups of people, making as if they are inhamn or have no feelings, and I do not think
> this is true.
> 
> 
>      The people who carry on this practice do so for a variety of reasons, and they have to be
> convinced and shown how wrong it is.  Telling them they are bad people, or that they do not love
> their children, or whatever, is not going to work.  
> 
> 
> 
> Ginny
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