superchunk on 22 February 2011
| badgenome said: Ah. Now it makes sense. Anyway, yeah, obviously any religion is only what its adherents make of it. I'm not exactly hopeful that a country where 95% of the women have undergone a clitoridecomy will become a liberal democracy in my lifetime, but I suppose it's not outside the realm of possibility. |
This only happens in African countries and it is in fact an african custom that predates Islam in that region. Also, it doesn't exist in the Arab countries where these revolts are happening. Egypt, as an example, outlawed it back in the 70's.
