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2019 Scientific American runs an essay titled:
Legal Child Abuse Must End
Female genital mutilation continues in the U.S.
By Qanta A. Ahmed
It was a failure to denounce a crime against humanity. In July, Ani Zonneveld, president of Muslims for Progressive Values, asked Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota to make a statement concerning women and girls victimized by female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C). Instead of educating the audience and pledging to improve legal protections against it, Omar, a Somali-American Muslim woman, pointed out that she had spoken against the practice elsewhere and excoriated Zonneveld for making the request simply because of Omar’s religion—ignoring the fact that Zonneveld is her- self a follower of Islam.
Source: Scientific American
The phrase "It was a failure to denounce a crime against humanity" appears to have two opposite meanings to me:
(1) It means "the action of publicly declaring a crime against humanity to be wrong or evil was a failure"(so more efforts should be made). I added "the action", not knowing whether it is correct.
(2) It means "to denounce a crime against humanity was wrong (you should not denounce the crime". Logically, this one is not the case. But I don't know the grammar of the phrase.
Which one is correct?
Legal Child Abuse Must End
Female genital mutilation continues in the U.S.
By Qanta A. Ahmed
It was a failure to denounce a crime against humanity. In July, Ani Zonneveld, president of Muslims for Progressive Values, asked Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota to make a statement concerning women and girls victimized by female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C). Instead of educating the audience and pledging to improve legal protections against it, Omar, a Somali-American Muslim woman, pointed out that she had spoken against the practice elsewhere and excoriated Zonneveld for making the request simply because of Omar’s religion—ignoring the fact that Zonneveld is her- self a follower of Islam.
Source: Scientific American
The phrase "It was a failure to denounce a crime against humanity" appears to have two opposite meanings to me:
(1) It means "the action of publicly declaring a crime against humanity to be wrong or evil was a failure"(so more efforts should be made). I added "the action", not knowing whether it is correct.
(2) It means "to denounce a crime against humanity was wrong (you should not denounce the crime". Logically, this one is not the case. But I don't know the grammar of the phrase.
Which one is correct?