Alan Dershowtiz: Report He Will Help Defense in Female Genital Mutilation Case ’Fake News by New York Times’
Michael Patrick Leahy
If we can get everybody in the world who today practices female genital mutilation, this group does not, every group in the world who practices it, if we can get them all to substitute the symbolic pin prick, which is the equivalent, for example of a 15 year old kid having your ear pierced, which is legal, it causes just about the same amount of harm to have your ears piereced as to have a tiny prick on the labial hood, that to me would be a great accomplishment.
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