re: #256 Decatur Deb
About 15-20 percent of Egyptians are not Muslim, and there are a lot of different kinds of Muslims.
It’s always been my understanding that FGM was a Nilotic/East African custom that spread to certain parts of the Pre-Islamic Arab world, but not all—mainly the Peninsula. The rise of Islam reduced its prevalence for a while, but it began creeping back like all these primitive religious rituals seem to.