“I am quite disgusted really, to be honest, that as Muslim legislators we are constantly being asked to waste our time speaking to issues that other people are not asked to speak to”
Ilhan Omar. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call,Inc. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, righteously fed up with the prejudiced nonsense she endures day in and day out, called a question about female genital mutilation from an audience member at a recent event “frustrating” and “appalling.”
FGM, the partial or complete removal of the clitoris for nonmedical purposes, is a common practice among people in some countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. It is banned or criminalized by at least 59 countries; in the U.S., it’s considered a criminal offense in at least 27 states. Although FGM is a cultural rather than a religious practice, it is, as the United Nations Population Fund notes, “often perceived as being connected to Islam,” and media coverage in the U.S.
Your second question is an appalling question because there are bills that we vote on, bills we sponsor, many statements we put out, and then we’re in a panel like this and the question is posed: ‘Could you and Rashida do this?’ And it’s like, how often — should I make a schedule? Does this need to be on repeat every five minutes? Should I be like, ‘So today I forgot to condemn al-Qaeda, so here’s the al-Qaeda one, today I forgot to condemn FGM, so here it goes, today I forgot to condemn Hamas,...
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