I hate that culture and have no respect for people who try to use false equivalency to support the culture of female mutilation. It appears, despite efforts of many enlightened people, that Egypt cannot change in regards to destroying the bodies of young girls.
I also wonder about the young women "returned to their families" because they don't bleed enough on their wedding nights, I wonder what happens to them? Do they have to be destroyed to protect the "family honor", like stray mutts in a very bad pound? Or are these families like better dog breeders who care for a rejected, living possession they bred and try to find it another home?
Yea, I'm harsh, but no matter what faults are found in Western society (and there are many, and I am not shy about discussing them) there is a difference between our culture and cultures like this regarding BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS, no matter what that monster George Bush did, the everyday human beings in the US and other Western nations find these acts and attitudes appalling (except for a minority of apologists floating around correcting people like me online). And no, it doesn't mean I want to bomb them. Cut off aid like they cut of girls' sexual organs? HELL YES.
They can say that "Steubenville" means we are EXACTLY THE SAME as this the day there is a gigantic outcry of anger in Egypt by most everyone in the country except one small town at the news that a girl has been mutilated.