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To: isthisnickcool
What's horrific and sick is the female circumsion or female genital mutilation in Muslim countries. Islam is evil.

This is just false. Female circumcision is not a muslim tradition. Is is a tribal and ethnic custom in Africa. Some Christian tribes use it. It was even used by physicians in Europe and the United States between roughly 1850 and 1950.

75 posted on 11/12/2002 9:56:12 AM PST by DanDan
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To: DanDan
This is just false. Female circumcision is not a muslim tradition.

It's evil for them to still do this today. That was my point. There is a lot of info. on the net about this. The goal is the subjugation of their women. Here is just one little snippet.

"In July, 1997 the Egyptian government overturned a ban on the practice of FGM. This event was celebrated by some Muslim figures, particularly Sheikh Youssef al-Badri, an outspoken proponent of the circumcision of Muslim women. Later the ban was reinstated, an act celebrated now by feminists and under assault by a few Muslim activists, again, led by Sheikh al-Badri."

88 posted on 11/12/2002 10:08:00 AM PST by isthisnickcool
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To: DanDan
Some Christian tribes use it. It was even used by physicians in Europe and the United States between roughly 1850 and 1950.

Cite that please. BTW, I'm an American from a long line of Americans of European descent and based on my knowledge and experience, your information is blatantly false.

334 posted on 11/12/2002 4:13:54 PM PST by EverOnward
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