If i sound big i know what it means to experience gentle mutilation as a little girl the after effects the resulting pain and disability my hands still show the complications in my head. Every day fatima koren battles with what was done to her as a child in somalia for more than 30 years she has worked in germany as an interpreter and author now more and more unaccompanied young women who have undergone f. P. M. Have been coming to germany for help. Vs the by and question because its what they teach this massive destruction of sexuality is absolutely deliberate. And since that is the central motive for this 1000 year old tradition women are not supposed to be able to act out their sexuality in sex and especially not enjoy it because the stuff on software. 95 percent of women in somalia have undergone genital mutilation fatima corn was born there are 964. 00 to a family of nomads she was caught at the age of 7 according to what is sometimes called fairy onic tradition. In so my you here
Eight. Good afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. My name is allison, im the 112th president of the National Press club take on the investigations associated press. You have a program and we invite you to listen or watch or follow along on twitter using and pc live. What are cspan and public radio audience, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public. Ad any reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. I like to begin by introducing our had table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left, robert, president of the public news office and the number of the npc headliners. Is a former president of the National Press club. M we have eleanor, a Political Columnist with the daily read. A National Reporter at the washington post. Wesley is Michael Deputy communications director. And alex, a political reporter nbc news. Skipping over the podium, to my right is donna, president media strat
Historians talk about religious influence on u. S. Politics and Foreign Policy in the 20th century, and address the question of why this is not a highly studied topic. This was part of a two Day Conference called remaking american political history. Thank you all for coming. I will be chairing this roundtable today. I will give you a brief overview of what were going to talk group,nd introduce our and then we will get started. 15 years ago [inaudible] oh, there we go. Thank you. There is a switch on the mic. 15 years ago, in a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted, religion of the continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. Of american religious history have proliferated over the past 15 years, yet in political history, religion has often retained a jackinthebox surprising,olorful, anomalous, idiosyncratic, but left on the perip
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