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Originally Posted by Itse
Of course some basic stuff just obviously needs to be said. Such as "you can't tell me what I can draw or not". Or "you can't do that to your daughters genitals". Just real no-brainers. If that stuff creates problems in the Muslim society, then it's up to them to deal with it.
On the other hand, the odds of a non-academic Christian getting their criticism on the relationship of Quran and present-day Islamic practices right is so close to zero that I would not go there.
(I could talk more about social power structures too, but I think that would just bring unnecessary complexity to what is already another quite a long post.)
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Good post. I agree that any non-academic christian or any non academic period usually sounds like they are regurgitating something they read online rather than something they know and understand about Islam.
To correct you..the female genital mutilation is an African culture/tradition you wont find it in one Arab Muslim country but you will find it in "In Africa, FGM is known to be practiced among certain communities in 29 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria" according to the UNFPA. I'm not sure if you know but the thing these nations have in common is not that they are Muslim, in fact the majority of these countries are now Christian. Perhaps female genital mutilation is a Christian thing then?
Its little myths like this, that all the Muslim girls have their clits snipped that make people very turned off to many people who want to criticize Islam. The thing is most of these people have had about as much exposure to Islam as someone in Pyongyang, North Korea. So they are literally spreading stories and statistics they read as if they personally have a degree in Islamic studies and conduct censuses in the ME.