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Liberal Democratic Female Senators Show No Interest in Testimony About Islamist Abuses of Women and Girls

June 24, 2017

Two women who grew up in Islamic cultures testified before the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about honor killings, child marriages, polygamy, sex slavery, and female genital mutilation. But they got no questions or apparent interest from U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Kamala Harris of California, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and at least one of them expressed discomfort at even holding the hearing.