Cue the "THIS IS THE END OF AMERICA, THANKS PC NAZIS" crowd.

Good grief. If the language is so complicated that a regular reader of this blog can't keep up with it, it's certainly too complicated for the general population to get everything exactly right. I'm so sick of hearing "Google it! Do your research! Why can't you get it right?!" as the solution, too, because there isn't…

Go dangle your bait somewhere else.

The Muslim peace movement is called Islam. Islam has no Pope. Every act of violence is denounced, publicly and often, but it's never enough for people like you, is it?

So most Muslims sympathize with terrorists? Really? Indonesia? Kosovo? Senegal? Tunisia? These countries are over 90% Muslim. Those entire countries sympathize with terrorists? Are you aware that there are different types of Muslims, with different philosophies, as well as many cultures that contain Muslim people? You…

I feel like I'm heaping on Japan in this thread, but there are a lot of comments that strike me as veering towards orientalism in their admiration of the wise and cultured Japanese - the whole: *look, even their fans are civilized!* (oof, and I just now really noticed the title Isha - the whole "gracious"…

This is why atheists have such a bad reputation. Going on long rants about how stupid everyone is that believes in "a man in the clouds" and then says something about how they believe in something ridiculous is not exactly the best way to win friends. I'm not particularly religious, but I hate it when people push…

Since someone is going around saying that the US is becoming the Middle East, I think it's important to bring in some historical perspective (facts are magic!)

...being rational, level-headed and invariably correct on matters of spiritual importance?

So...why argue? What's the point? How do you intend to accomplish anything? Why are you even here?

I didn't say you were white, I said you have a white savior's magic ability to understand African women's lived experience. Letting go of your first world privilege in these situations is hard, I understand that hearing a different perspective can be a cause to lash out. But maybe instead take a second and try to…

I am not claiming it is fantastic, but just that for many, many women who experience fgm they don't go on to have life-long pain. They are able to menstruate and give birth without complications. FGM is horrible and unnecessary, but the way it is depicted by Western NGOs you would think that the women of Ethiopia and…

Your rage is noted, fare ye well, but before you go, here's is some reading for ya http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… (for example, FGM in Nigeria is more prevalent in the Christian regions).

Okay, asshole, riddle me this. If Islam is such a monolithic entity, why is it that FGM is not practiced universally across the entire Dar-al-Islam? Also, you do know how Hadithic isnads work, yes? And so not all hadiths are considered equally credible?

I'm not sure why its more associated with Islamic nations as it is just as common in Christian Ethiopia as in Muslim Somalia and as common among Christian Nigerians as Muslim Nigerians.

I will note that somehow in the Hanafi fiqh, the Hanbali fiqh, the Maliki fiqh and the Jafari fiqh (and other Shii practice) the hadith you cite does not exist. That covers over 80% of all Muslims. This is not part of "Islam" because "Islam" is not a monolith. The majority of girls that suffer FGM are Christians, if…

And this is what Wikipedia has to say about that particular Hadith:

I think this is an interesting topic and it always garners a lot of attention from the media and the public. While popular discourse uses the term "Female Genital Mutilation" or "FGM", Female Genital Cutting is a better phrase to use. Mutilation is a strongly loaded word and invites the most ergreious images, while…

You formatted your post wrong. "Cue the ignorance in 3...2...1..." was supposed to go at the TOP.

Its a cultural practice that happens in some Muslim countries but not all. FGM is unheard of in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. It is not a Muslim practice anymore than it is a Christian practice.Just as there are hadith that permit eating horse among horse eating Central Asian Kazakhs, and there…