Reza Aslan mentioned extremist monks in Myanmar--Good for him he did not let himself be brow beaten by these fast talking generalizing journalists.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152410206006167&set=vb.26595441166&type=2&theater
He also said FGM or female genital mutilation is not an Islamic problem, it's an African problem, and Eritrea and Ethiopia where most of it happens are predominantly Christian countries.
So I am so proud of my novella FGM which got it absolutely right--the character who is a medical doctor (gynecologist) in my story is from Ethiopia and so are the victims.
The family which she suspects of having incest between the father and the daughter are from Malaysia. (I did not say that there is FGM in Malaysia, there is not.)
Buy my story here--
FGM—Kindle edition
FGM: A Story about the Mutilation of Women.
Dr. Aset, a trained gynecologist with several post graduate American degrees, lets herself be drawn into an inappropriate
relationship.
My novella FGM is now available on Kindle--http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KJ3FUOE
there is also a print edition on the CreateSpace/Amazon store.
https://www.createspace.com/4738586
Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--I have a volume of her short stories--which I like a great deal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala
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