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To: GovernmentShrinker
and the mutilation rate there is 90%.

Sorry, but according to a Malawi stats site,

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A few small ethnic groups practice female genital mutilation About 18% of females undergo this practice.

That's a far cry from 90% and it's still an accusation unless you can prove it.

61 posted on 11/03/2006 5:31:30 PM PST by Netizen (Do restaurants combine inputs (buns, meat, produce, condiments) to manufacture hamburgers?)
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To: Netizen

Work on reading comprehension. Start by re-reading the sentence which mentions only one country (Ethiopia) and gives the rate THERE as 90%. I chose Ethiopia as an example of the lack of correlation between religious affiliation and female genital mutilation, since I was responding to your question: "Do Christians mutilate women?".

Malawi seems to have a lower rate than many countries in that part of the world, but in a country where the practice isn't so widespread as to be the "norm", it's likely to be the poorest, least educated people who are practicing it, so there's more than 18% chance that this baby's mother had undergone it (at least if the father's claim to be unable to afford to feed the child is true).


62 posted on 11/05/2006 7:33:18 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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