21.   Harsh customs such as obligatory face veils or female genital mutilation, which have crept into the religion in various Islamic lands, are virtually nonexistent.

22.   He contends that the immigration changes provide safeguards, denying, for example, that women seeking asylum because they fear genital mutilation at home would be summarily deported.

23.   Heavy on fashion and relationships, with several substantive articles, including one on female genital mutilation.

24.   Her case will be the first in which the Board of Immigration Appeals considers whether to grant asylum to a woman who says she is fleeing genital mutilation.

25.   Hundreds of thousands of African immigrants to America come from areas where female genital mutilation is common, and some have sought to perform the procedure here.

26.   Immigration lawyers said practices such as infanticide, genital mutilation and forced marriages often are dismissed as a cultural phenomenon.

27.   Immigration reform advocates like McAlpin fear that allowing asylum based on fears of female genital mutilation could lead the way toward even broader interpretations of what constitutes persecution.

28.   In another asylum-related vote, the Senate refused to allow asylum for women who flee their home countries out of fear of genital mutilation.

29.   In Kenya, it meant investing time to learn about cultural issues before attempting a program to discourage female genital mutilation.

30.   Indeed, global objections to female genital mutilation are mounting.