By Shirin Taber and Rickie Farnes, Middle East Women’s Leadership Network, in partnership with America Matters Religious freedom — the right to practice your religion freely — is one of the greatest merits of the American experience. However, systematic abuses in the name of religion, committed daily against women, cut away at our universal rights and cannot be tolerated. A growing number of Islamists and male-centric communities inside the U.S. treat women as commodities for control and reproduction. Girls are taught that female genital mutilation (FGM) is a right…
FGM in America: End cultural and religious based violence
