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    "id": 600665,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. The reason I translated it is because the HANSARD will have difficulties in picking what I said in the Arabic Language of the Quran. Therefore, when you see some of these existing notions, stereotypes and traditions in communities, they are neither Islamic. To a certain extent, some are just traditions that must die with the passage of time. We cannot continue to live in the barbarian cultures which are overtaken by events. If there is a culture where people find it important to kill women, I know that in other societies in this world as we live today, they bury their young daughters when women conceive daughters. They are called “owner killings”. It is absolutely horrendous to have such culture in the modern day. So we must legislate against what is illegal. I know some of us like Sen. Lesuuda who has been on the forefront dehumanizing female genital mutilation. We have legislated against it but we must now effect that law. We must start to jail those who continue to barbarically impair our girls in a manner that is not imaginable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we debate this Motion, I feel elated that Kenya has made strides but not sufficient. So, we need to ensure that we make more strides so that we accommodate these things in a very holistic and passionate manner. I talk as a father with a daughter, and I do not want her to live in a society where she is discriminated on account of her gender. I am happy that I have interacted with quite a number of young Senators here."
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