seriously, are you just saying this stuff so i'll debate you?
- That it is a religious mandate -- although the practice predates both Christianity and Islam"
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~mcbri20s/classweb/worldpolitics/page1.html
i told you i wrote a paper on it.
Africa has the greatest amount of FGM, as the World Health Organization believes that somewhere between 100 million and 140 millon women and girls about have undergone the surgery throughout the world, 92 million of them over the age of ten living in Africa. Female Genital Mutilation has been outlawed in Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Sweeden, Switzerland, and the United States. The following two maps show the percentages of women and girls in Africa from the ages of 15-49 who have undergone a FGM surgery.