AdvertisementA Secretive Sect Opens A Debate On Female Genital MutilationFebruary 28, 2018Diaa HadidfacebookEmailLeena Khandwala, 44, at her family home in Karachi, Pakistan. After members of her religious community in the U.S. and Australia were arrested for performing female genital mutilation, she decided to go public about her childhood experience of being cut. (NPR)