Feminist Alice Walker: Muslim Scholars Have ‘Ignored the Problem of Female Genital Mutilation’ - Breitbart
Dr. Susan Berry
“[A] lot of it has to be about making sure that men, and maybe starting really young, really understand that they are endangering themselves,” Walker explained, adding: Because they really are very people, most men — and I say that because when I started talking about female genital mutilation and writing about it — many men in Africa and elsewhere just completely denied it, and just didn’t want to hear about it.
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