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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 herself a follower of Islam.
Source: Scientific American
Who is the audience in "Instead of educating the audience and pledging to improve legal protections against it"? Is the audience here Zonneveld?
And, does "it" refer to the practice of mutilating female genitals?
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 herself a follower of Islam.
Source: Scientific American
Who is the audience in "Instead of educating the audience and pledging to improve legal protections against it"? Is the audience here Zonneveld?
And, does "it" refer to the practice of mutilating female genitals?
