Saza Faradilla was 22 when she discovered her genitals had been cut when she was a baby, having unknowlingly endured a quietly persistent traditional practice among Singapore's minority Muslim community. The Asian city-state is modern and cosmopolitan but social values remain conservative and female genital mutilation -- banned in much of the world -- is not illegal.

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