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*Update information on Christianity - there are indigenous, ancient pre-Western Christian traditions in Africa and the current article presupposes a biased Western view -particularly important given that Egypt and Ethiopia in particular have high rates of FGC and large, dominantly non-Western Christian denominations cf http://en.wikipedia.org/Christianity_in_Africa--] (]) 21:37, 28 July 2008 (UTC) *Update information on Christianity - there are indigenous, ancient pre-Western Christian traditions in Africa and the current article presupposes a biased Western view -particularly important given that Egypt and Ethiopia in particular have high rates of FGC and large, dominantly non-Western Christian denominations cf http://en.wikipedia.org/Christianity_in_Africa--] (]) 21:37, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

*You need to add Malaysia to your list. 99% of ethnic Malay who are Muslims have it done (hoodectomy)
It is now extremely rare in Indonesia, but male circumcision is universal among Muslims and not in the other groups 75%-80% Indonesian males circumcised


You need to also see a piece in the May/June 2009 issue of World Watch magazine on female circumcision in The Gambia by an anthropologist, Dr. Dawn Starin, who talks about it in a piece called Notes from The Gambia

Latest revision as of 08:55, 29 July 2011

  • The article should describe the practice, with sources indicating prevalence of respective variations on the subject.
  • Expand introduction
  • Search for and eliminate duplicate references
  • Update information on Christianity - there are indigenous, ancient pre-Western Christian traditions in Africa and the current article presupposes a biased Western view -particularly important given that Egypt and Ethiopia in particular have high rates of FGC and large, dominantly non-Western Christian denominations cf http://en.wikipedia.org/Christianity_in_Africa--N4guy (talk) 21:37, 28 July 2008 (UTC)