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These days, I would expect that a report into violence against women would highlight the absolute emergency represented by the increasing levels of violence against women in the Muslim communities of Europe. European women’s rights and gender violence organisations report that this phenomenon continues to grow. This is something that takes place right under our noses, but it seems there is a certain reluctance to talk about the problem using the correct terms. The report mentions, for example, forced marriages and female genital mutilation, but these phenomena, which are growing exponentially in our cities, are tackled as if they are issues related to cultural background. The truth is that they are linked to the massive presence of immigrants who bring to Europe a fundamentalist conception of religion, Islam, and while today it is women in these communities who are paying the price, tomorrow it could affect our women and the very core of western society. The EU should immediately put in place adequate and targeted policies on this subject, and not on violence related to ‘cultural’ backgrounds, which means nothing, so that we can fight this strongly spreading phenomenon today, which at this pace will become impossible to manage tomorrow."@en1
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