21.   Mrs. Bangura said ending female genital mutilation in her country would require an understanding of some of the rituals that surround it, and even rehabilitating them.

22.   Money itself will not end female genital mutilation.

23.   Neither honor killing nor female genital mutilation has any basis in the Koran, she says.

24.   Not long ago, Dawit was telling a group of women about the ban on female genital mutilation.

25.   Now the U.S. recognizes that female mutilation can be grounds for claiming asylum.

26.   Opponents have been fighting what they denounce as female genital mutilation for more than half a century.

27.   Senegal recently outlawed the practice of female genital mutilation.

28.   She said she had been protected from the tribal practices of polygamy and female genital mutilation by her wealthy father, a businessman who personally opposed the practices.

29.   She will also continue to campaign against female genital mutilation, while urging communities to come up with more symbolic rites of passage for girls at puberty.

30.   She compares her situation to that of African girls who undergo female genital mutilation, but she thinks her condition is even worse.