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Andrea Bruce
The Washington Post

"Female Circumcision"


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Sheelan Anwar Omer, 7, enters a room looking for the party her mother had promised. As a local woman closed the door behind her, her mother told her to take off her underwear. This Kurdish neighborhood considers female circumcision a rite-of-passage much like male circumcision. The main difference being that female circumcision removes part of an organ, the clitoris. Male circumcision is the removal of a piece of skin.
 

 

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