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Female genital mutilation was beaten into the ground a while back (some topic on Sidhe's forum which is now archived and I can't seem to find?), and generally strikes me as a dead-end topic of debate; there are very few unbiased sources in either direction w.r.t Islam. It is, in some ways, tantamount to convincing a large number of homosexual black jews that the KKK isn't representative of all of Christianity, and that they should maybe give it a chance.
By that I mean that the official scripture looks bad, and the public image of the religion sucks ass because the people who do it well are prototypically simple, happy, quiet, and not often the topic of columns or websites. Correcting this would require firstly an audience of willing people (some of y'all, nevermind Americans in general, seem a little on the "fuckit, let's just nuke the ragheads" side of things), and secondly someone better versed in the subject than either jag or I.
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