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Message: <blockquote data-quote="triqui" data-source="post: 5518363" data-attributes="member: 57948">Just to point: Sharia and/or Islam are not related to genital mutilation. It's something that is related to sub-saharian african cultures. Arabia Saudi is muslim, and has no mutilations, while Gabon is catholic, and have genital mutliations. There are mutilations in Eritrea (christian koptos), Egypt (muslims), animistic tribes in Congo, etc. I'm not sure, but I think it's relatively common among jews in Ethiopy too. In Nigeria, where half the country is christian and the other half is muslim, the mutilation is more extended in the christian half than in the muslim half. One of the most known cases is the Pullitzer awarded photograph work about Kenya's mutilations, and kenya is not a muslim countryThis is a common misconception becouse Somalia is a muslim country, one of the places where this abhorrent tradition is more common, and the best known for it becouse Waris Dirie, the UN embassador against this practice is somalian.That does not mean you could not use Al Qaeda as the evil guys. Extremist muslim and Sharia have enough things against women's right (like Burkhas or lapidation).EDIT: a link <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001524.html" target="_blank">http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001524.html</a></blockquote>