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Originally Posted by Crumpy-Gunt
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.
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Actually, your both right.
It is an African problem, but it's also a Muslim problem. Outside of Africa, the only places it's at all popular are Muslim majority countries. Even in Africa where it's common, it's much more common in Muslim communities than non-Muslim communities, and the more Muslim the nation, the more common it generally is. It may not be a thing with the doctrine itself, but Islamic culture seems to contribute for sure.
And you will definitely find it in Arab Muslim countries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preval...ion_by_country