Islam is not bad, too many of you are ignorant of history.

[badgenome]

superchunk said:

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.

Again, lack of historical knowledge. 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.

You're right that Egypt has banned it. They've banned it repeatedly. They banned it in 1959. They banned it in 1997. They banned it in 2007. Still, ~95% of Egyptian women have had a female "circumcision".

Whatever I lack in historical knowledge, my knowledge of current events is spot fucking on.