[happyscrappy]

You can handle female genital mutilation with grace and magnanimity?

[dang]

We warned you that we would ban your account if you didn't stop doing this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178800), and you haven't, so we've banned your account. If you don't want it to be banned, you're welcome to email [e-mail].

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10603582 and marked it off-topic.

[conceit]

Why is whoever that was getting an announcement and i got hellbanned? Kinda serious question, because the comment in question was deleted

[vinceguidry]

You can try to understand the conditions that beget such practices and work to alleviate them.

[bashedly]

Well said.

[jqm]

What if the conditions that beget such practices are a religion? Then what do we do?

[meraku]

Female genital mutilation doesn't actually have anything to do with Islam, as Reza Aslan points out in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV0QXO6YfzA