Protest in Coventry halts circumcision of boy aged 14
On August 1, a teenager posted a message on Reddit ExMuslim, in which he said ‘my parents are planning for me to get circumcised, I don’t want to be circumcised, what can I do, especially if I...
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‘Militant secularists are after our kids’ says US law professor
Conservative Catholic thinker and Princeton University law professor Robert George claimed in Washington on October 24 that, as societies throughout the world become increasingly secularised, some...
View ArticleIcelandic lawmakers are acting ‘like Nazis’ over circumcision
Jewish leaders in four Nordic countries have reacted angrily to a ban on non-medical circumcision proposed by Icelandic lawmakers. In an open letter deploring a bill that would prohibit the genital...
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Circumcision ban ‘would hand Hitler a posthumous victory’
A heated debate has erupted in the wake of Iceland’s plan to abolish male infant circumcision – a ban that, according to UK Jewish academic Dr Irene Lancaster, above, should be rigorously opposed by...
View ArticleUK judge prevents girl from being taken to India for FGM
A UK court has banned an Indian-origin family from flying their baby daughter to India because she is at risk of being subjected to an ‘utterly unacceptable’ genital mutilation procedure. According to...
View ArticleUK doctor faces prosecution over Islamic circumcision
The mother of a boy who was circumcised against her wishes is seeking to challenge a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decision taken last November not to prosecute the doctor who carried out the...
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Denmark’s bid to ban male circumcision hits the buffers
Denmark’s ruling Liberal Party has come out against a ban on the circumcision of young boys, meaning a controversial citizen’s proposal is unlikely to make it through parliament. According to this...
View ArticleHarvard man sacked for ‘anti-Semitic’ circumcision show
Beneath a recently uploaded YouTube video of his one-man show Sex & Circumcision: An American Love Story, anti-circumcision activist Eric Clopper revealed that Harvard has sacked him – and that he...
View ArticleWinnipeg penis butcher suspended after botched circumcisions
Winnipeg doctor Ejaz Ahmad, above, has been suspended for five months by the College of Physicians and Surgeons for performing circumcisions ‘on young and vulnerable’ boys who later suffered severe...
View ArticleTwo-year-old boy dies in Italy after botched religious circumcision
Following our report last week that a Muslim doctor had been suspended for a string of botched circumcisions, news comes from Italy of the death of boy who was genitally-mutilated in keeping with...
View ArticleUK body modification trial raises questions about circumcision
CIRCUMCISIONS carried out for religious reasons on children who are unable to consent to the procedure ought logically to be outlawed in the UK, given a ruling yesterday (Tuesday) by the UK Court of...
View ArticleForeskin art is the latest weapon against infant circumcision
BACK in 2015, a crowdfunding campaign was launched to finance research into the regeneration of foreskins for circumcised men – and more than $40,000 dollars were raised. Cash raised was also used to...
View ArticleCharities allowed to promote infant mutilation if it ‘advances religion’
I HAD never heard of the The Initiation Society and the charity status it enjoys until I read of its existence in an op-ed published by Megan Manson on the National Secular Society’s website this week....
View ArticleSweden’s circumcision vote: rabbi warns of growing intolerance
RABBI Pinchas Goldschmidt, above, President of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), has slammed Sweden’s Center Party for voting last week by 314 to 166 to to oppose the non-medical circumcision...
View ArticleOp-ed: Government & Religion
IN November the UK Government launched an Independent Faith Engagement Review, headed by the Director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, Colin Bloom, above. The review into ‘how best the...
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Circumcision: the human rights violation that no one wants to talk about
From the Freethinker cover page, January 2000. 23 years later, what has changed? Suppose it were reported that three baby girls had bled to death following Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the UK....
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Feminism and religion are incompatible
This is an edited version of Maryam Namazie’s contribution to a Cambridge Union debate: ‘This House Believes Feminism is Incompatible with Religion’, held on 14 November 2024. Others speaking in...
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