"This is complex; one wants to respect traditions and customs, but how can you if they are grossly damaging and cruel to women? Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights. I don't think people should bring such a dreadful custom here and expect it to be respected. What we should respect are the people themselves, their feelings, their emotions."..........We want prevention; we want to stop it happening ever."
So says British author Ruth Rendell who is up and arms about the so called "female circumcision" as it's spreading in Britain, Europe and No. America. Seeing herself as a supporter of not only Women's Rights, but of human rights, the author is proposing some not too novel ideas as possible solutions; ideas which are seen as politically incorrect in certain circles here, on this side of the Pond.
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