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Revision as of 08:08, 31 October 2010 by 70.142.34.215 (talk) (done)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)- Make the article overall more neutral. The article should describe the practice. Much of the article describes extreme cases, but does not consider most cultural cases akin to male circumcision where removing nerve endings is not the goal.
- 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)
- 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