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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
You'd have to look at that in relation to how many muslim and jewish kids are born in the UK every year as both those religions advocate circumcison, and then look at it as a percentage.
Don't get me wrong, I think carrying out any form of surgical procedure at home, or without properly trained medical staff using proper equipment, is totally wrong. It's not something I would do, but I very much doubt that ,when you look at this as a percentage of actual birth rates, it will be a significant percentage.
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I don't disagree with what you say and don't want this to turn into another cultural/relgious warfare thread
My concern is not about slurring one religion or another and it's less about the thousands of boys who are treated with due care during this procedure than it is about rooting out the proportion who go about things in a thoroughly barbaric manner which I would consider as child abuse. It's also about the young girls who are subject to circumcision and genital mutilation which I feel cannot ever be justified.
That it's still going on in this country at all, should be a very grave concern for all of us irrespective of race/religion or indeed percentages.