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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CH was widely regarded by the French as hard left, anti-racist, anti-fascist, equal opportunity "mocker" -- which explains the outpouring of support. It looks like many Americans don't understand, and don't try to understand it, and are rushing to judgment. [/quote]Maybe Westerners just don't understand  female genital mutilation, (which is regarded as pro-female by its proponents/practitioners), and the West is rushing to judgement?

We all see the world through the prisms of our own cultures and experiences.  I can deem CH as sickening while still decrying the slaughter[/quote]

I have never heard anyone describe that as pro-female.[/quote]http://academics.smcvt.edu/africanart/Maureen/FGM/defending.htm   without the FGM, you are shunned by your society, considered unfit to be wed. For some, refusing to have fgm is a sentence to a life of abuse and exclusion, therefore a loving family will ensure this rite occurs. It is 'pro-female' because it's the pathway to respectable wifehood and motherhood. Just as hijab and purdah are 'pro-female' because they 'protect; a woman from unwelcome attention and the abuse of strangers[/quote]

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