Clinton: ‘Cultural Tradition’ is No Excuse For “Female Genital Mutilation”

A half truth is a whole lie.

US secretary of State, Hilary Clinton had the guts to state that cultural tradition is no excuse for mutilation, torturing women, known as female genital cutting, a practice that is sometimes referred to as female circumcision.

Purity and Cleanliness is not protected by a physical cut, of the most sensitive parts of female genitalia. Although Clinton said many cultural differences should be respected, but FGM  is not one of them.

At the first State Department event marking the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, Clinton said religious leaders are the spearheads in eliminating the practice in societies that wrongly believe it is a religious doctrine or where it is accepted simply because it has been done for generations (We repeatedly stressed those leaders as the arch nemesis of any legal ban, case in point: Egypt with rising numbers of FGM even after a legal ban and multiple fatwa)

In fact, the issue of immigrants coming to the west to impose their values should have been carefully stressed, but it’s a step in the one thousand miles march.

The more we bring this FGM issue to media attention, it gets more difficult for the tribal mentality to defend barbaric action as part of a culture, it’s just a plain lie.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

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