Should we pass a law against Cruelty to Children?

Question

Specifically regarding mutilation without their concent.

Here I am actually talking about circumcision, and more definately regarding the disgusting habit of some muslims who administer it to girls.

I believe people who believe that this ritual is godly or required for whatever reason should be treated like a any other child abuser.

What do you think.

And no there is no difference, its child abuse full stop.

Why not let them make their own choice when they are 16, and an adult.

Dont be so naive that it does not occur in teh UK or other modern country. Fundamentalist Muslims in the UK carry this out on Muslim girls.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/212240.stm

Answer 1

A girl is an adult as soon as she gets her first period. Second Islam does NOT allow female circumcision. It is only required for male infants because ALLAH(SWT) dictated it to Prophet Ibrahim(PBUH*) to do. Third female circumcision is a horrendous practice that is done only in African countries among poor uneducated people who think that by chopping off the girl's clitoris that she won't be tempted to cheat on her husband and doesn't feel sexual pleasure. Any Muslim that does do that to their daughter or another woman or girl is an idiot and needs to read the Qur'an properly.

Answer 2

Yes, although I would include the prohibition of male genital mutilation as well.

Contrary to popular knowledge, particularly in the U.S., there are many similarities to male and female genital mutilation.

See here: http://www.circumstitions.com/FGMvsMGM.html and here http://www.birthingthefuture.com/AllAboutBirth/circumcision.php

It's perpetuated by culture, just as FGM in other areas and the majority of people who force it on their children do not know the true facts.

It should be the choice of the victim as to whether or not they want to undergo the procedure. There are many men who try to undo the damage done to them every year: http://www.norm.org/
It is wrong to force an irreversible process onto them that they may not undergo as a adult if they still had the choice.


No medical institution in the developed world actually recommends the practice.
Let's have a look at medical associations in the developed world. The British Medical Association, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Canadian Paediatric Society, American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Australian College of Paediatrics and Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons. Every one of them recommends AGAINST performing the procedure. Their positions on the procedure can be found here: http://www.circumcision.org/position.htm


Here is a video of the operation. Watch it if you want to learn more. Please do watch it.
http://youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=XmX6RdRNoqk
Or this video:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=352478&fr=ybr_sbc
It is not just a little snip here and there. Watch the above video of a circumcision in progress.


The foreskin keeps the glans soft and moist and protects it from trauma and injury. Without this protection, the glans becomes dry, calloused, and desensitized from exposure and chafing.
Specialized nerve endings in the foreskin enhance sexual pleasure.
The foreskin may have functions not yet recognized or understood.
[ http://www.nocirc.org/publish/pamphlet7.html ]

"Circumcision removes the most sensitive parts of the penis and decreases the fine-touch pressure sensitivity of glans penis. The most sensitive regions in the uncircumcised penis are those parts ablated by circumcision. When compared to the most sensitive area of the circumcised penis, several locations on the uncircumcised penis that are missing from the circumcised penis were significantly more sensitive." Circumcision removes as much as 75% of sensation [ http://www.nocirc.org/touch-test/bju_6685.pdf ].

The foreskin reduces the force required by the penis to enter the vagina. It also increases the sexual enjoyment of the female partner. Here is a study to back this up: http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/ohara/

Performing circumcision on a child can and does result in the deaths of children due to blood loss and/or failure of the immune system.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=512542
Approximately 230 American males die every year because of circumcision. [ http://www.sexuallymutilatedchild.org/deathsdo.htm ] This is a meaningless and very sad loss of life.

It can and does result in very significant scaring.
It can and does result in sexual problems later in life.

Circumcised males have a much higher rate of sexual dysfunction and premature ejaculation. [ http://www.cirp.org/library/sex_function/ ]

Answer 3

Monotheistic religions were founded by people who liked to mutilate and rape infants. That's just the way it is. Want to join me in gunning them down? Just kidding! I'm letting them wipe themselves out.

Answer 4

i think of that the section that facilitates him an uncomplicated divorce could desire to be allowed, yet maximum of those particularly are not issues anybody could desire to be punished for (aside from the final offense; it is too worry-unfastened with women). Oh, and that i assume he could desire to get some funds from the spouse for the abortion, yet no longer for the sterilization. And for the verbal abuse.

Answer 5

I think you have a point here. Unless its for medical reasons though. Trouble is though its not doctors that do these procedures usually, its religious leaders that do it.

Answer 6

I always wondered how chopping off the clit got to be called circumcision

Answer 7

It was just the thing to do I guess in 1970 when I was born....and no questions asked. I always figured it was just for health reasons.....

Answer 8

In all western, civilized nations this IS already illegal.

Answer 9

yes, because it's totally unnecessary and barbaric,. and it should be illegal

Answer 10

yes,why not.