Over the past year, Gambia — a tiny majority-Muslim country — has been engulfed in a nationwide debate about female genital cutting, which is widely known as female genital mutilation (FGM).

Most women in the Muslim-majority West African country have already undergone FGM, according to the UN. In Gambia, three out of four women, aged between 15 to 49 have undergone the procedure ...

The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization received a record number of complaints of discrimination and Islamophobic attacks amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and ...