What does the circumcisied little boy do when someone knocks at the door and he’s at the open front door, with or without a parent, pulling his foreskin down to the floor? It’s unfair a child has had his right to pull at his foreskin like no tomorrow in the company of house guests removed, with said foreskin.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (11 Feb 2019 12.05pm)

COYP

Yep. These ancient customs are either absurd or, in the case of females, a disgrace. Non Kosher food with today’s food safety in the western world and Israel if they wanted is also ridiculous. All that seafood and cured pork they’re missing out on.

COYP

There is (apparently) evidence that male circumcision results in health benefits. As usual the evidence comes from people with some 'skin in the game'.

It is noteworthy that the Prophet Mohammed asked that girls only be circumcised in the same way as boys. In other words the hood and some tidying of the labia only.

''Indeed, one of the first missions of the Prophet Muhammad was to express his outrage at and denunciation of the pre-Islamic Arab customs surrounding newborn girls''

I’ve always been baffled as to why your username isn’t ‘Jake the Peg’

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

You are suggesting things about Muhammad that aren't known. There are no references to FGM in the Qu'ran and all the other references are considered weak.

Many Muslim religious authorities appear to agree that FGM is not required by Islam nor is prohibited by it as fatwas have been issued both forbidding FGM and approving of it,

However, circumcision of both male and female is traditional in both Islamic and Arab cultures generally.....hence the problems visited upon our shores.

Edited by Stirlingsays (11 Feb 2019 4.28pm)

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Never worked with Americans then Hrolf?

TUESDAY, Dec. 2, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials are poised to endorse circumcision as a means of preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday released its first-ever draft guidelines on circumcision that recommend that doctors counsel parents and uncircumcised males on the health benefits of the procedure.

The guidelines do not outright call for circumcision of all male newborns, since that is a personal decision that may involve religious or cultural preferences, Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, told the Associated Press.