You're listening to Unfiltered with James O'Brien, brought to you by Joe.

Hello and welcome to the very latest edition of Unfiltered which well this is a really

interesting one for me because I don't know whether you've noticed this but

people who are ordinarily well let's not be about the Bush people who couldn't ordinarily give a

shit about female rights or or equality suddenly come over all women's

lib when the men doing the oppression or the men doing the raping or the men doing the disgusting things

happen to be of a color.

You'll see it in the kind of far right white supremacist

corners of the internet.

And female genital mutilation is one of the great weapons of what about

that they've adopted in the last few years so you say something about Donald

Trump boasting about sexually assaulting women and his most racist fan say yeah but what about female genital mutilation? about

female genital mutilation as if it's not perfectly possible to find both

abhorrent.

Nimco Ali who you're about to meet is a woman I've met a few years ago but only in passing and

subsequently I've realized that she's probably done more in this field than anybody else

in Britain possibly in the world.

She is also, I suspect importantly,

but I don't want to second guess what happens in the interview.

But she seems to be very much of the view that if she's not prepared to talk frankly and in some

detail, detail that will often be grisly about what happened to her when she was a child,

then there's no point doing the work that she does.

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