Her husband had lost his job and had to leave Morocco due to threats from fundamentalists.
Some Islamic fundamentalists claim FGM is a religious duty, but it is not nearly as widespread in most other majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East.
Those are virtues that fundamentalists and fanatics cannot stand.
Mainstream liberals tell us that when basic democratic values are under threat from ethnic or religious fundamentalists we should unite behind the liberal-democratic agenda, save what can be saved and put aside dreams of more radical social transformation.
They're mostly old, white, male fundamentalists who look at the country's shifting demographics, where gay people will go on marrying and brown people will go on presidenting.
Encouraged by the preacher's impassioned pleas, they were expressing their desire for the return of the hidden, or 12th, imam - the revered saviour of Shia Islam, whose reappearance after more than a millennium in occultation is awaited by believers in a manner similar to that with which Christian fundamentalists anticipate the second coming of Jesus.
"It is a profound and crucial difference: if one is to argue for freedom of speech there can be no caveats, no asterisks, no fine print qualifying that 'freedom' only applies to expression we don't consider too upsetting, or doesn't enrage right-wing fundamentalists with guns," her letter reads.
Mentioning some of his weaker characteristics, including compulsive womanising, unimpressive aviation skills, childishness and egoism, often causes a rumpus during public debates where Saint-Ex fans are as zealous as religious fundamentalists.
MPs were told that intelligence services had drawn up a list of approximately 20 Islamic fundamentalists who would be detained when the new legislation came into force.
But the Mosharekat member insisted the fundamentalists were not driving the process.
The 1925 trial had a monkey as its symbol; the 2003 case has the Linux trademark, a cute penguin.Leading the fundamentalists is Darl McBride, who was hired as SCO's chief executive a year ago.
