Women bear brunt of Islamophobia

[bobclark86]

98. Good to see places like...

Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and the Central African Republic have no problems with female genital mutilation -- one of the "barbarisms of Islam" as I've seen posted here, as all of those countries aren't Muslim -- in fact, they're primarily Christian or have a plurality of Christians.

Oh, wait.

Wikipedia's info on prevalence of female genital mutilation

FGM is mostly found in what political scientist Gerry Mackie describes as an "intriguingly contiguous" zone in Africa – east to west from Somalia to Senegal, and north to south from Egypt to Tanzania.[72] Information about its prevalence has been collected since 1989 in a series of Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).[73] UNICEF notes that the women who respond to these surveys are reporting events that occurred years ago, so the data may not reflect current trends.[74]

A 2013 UNICEF report based on 70 of these surveys indicated that FGM is concentrated in 27 African countries, as well as Yemen and Iraqi Kurdistan.[73] UNICEF estimates that 125 million women and girls in those countries have been affected.[4] The report grouped the countries according to the prevalence among women aged 15–49:[75]

Half of those African countries have majority or plurality Christianity. As you can see, it's a sub-Saharan Africa problem, not an Arab or Islamic problem (since most people get those last two groups confused).

But those countries -- like Eritrea, which has an 89 percent rate of female genital mutilation -- are just "outliers."

Oh, and if you want to take a look at disgusting records on human rights, look in a mirror sometime. And I don't mean 200 years ago, either. You know who the last president to allow the forced removal of Seneca Nation of Indians members was? John F. Kennedy.