Marion D. S. Dreyfus raises important questions in [1] FrontPage (thanks to EPG):

In Frontpage’s recent symposium, The Radical Lies of Aids, I was dismayed and surprised that, in a roundtable discussion on the current state of HIV/AIDS, no mention was made of Islamic cultural habits and African tribal customs.... All viruses and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) picked up from the unfaithful sexually active mate find a hospitable environment in the misused wife and incubate into various forms of sexual disorder or, of late, especially into HIV. Sadly, the now visibly-ill women are frequently blamed for initiating the disease: beaten, divorced or otherwise abused. This is a frequent Islamic reaction from husbands, brothers, fathers, even sons, to the perceived ‘dishonoring’ of the family or rape of their (innocent) women.

More relevant in this cultural inplication is that more than 100 million, even as many as 140 million -- that is correct -- African girls and women are estimated by WHO and ReligiousTolerance.com (among many others) as victim/recipients of female genital mutilation (FGM, also called infibulation). Infibulation in the medical literature or public arena is so widespread and so taboo that it assumes a special place in the history of hushed-up critical problems in the world. Like not mentioning that woolly mammoth smack in the middle of your living room.

Because it is considered a private, 'social' or often a “religious” issue, one that riles up many Muslim (male) “authorities” and average healthcare practitioners, infibulation –FGM -- is a major third-rail political agenda, one vociferously denied and hotly “debated” in outrage with anyone intrepid or foolhardy enough to bring up such a detonating topic.

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