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Football in front, infibulation behind

The Man City v Barcelona match was punctuated by a discussion about the rights and wrongs of FMG

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

I’m watching Manchester City being taken to the cleaners by Barcelona on the telly, while at the table behind me my Parisian feminist intellectual hostess Natalie is discussing female genital mutilation with her Malian girlfriend Fatou. Football in front, infibulation behind.

Fatou: ‘It goes without saying: how can you say that female genital mutilation is not a disgusting and barbaric practice? How, in this day and age, can a woman allow herself to be oppressed in this medieval fashion? The practice is pure evil.

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