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To: Walter Scott Hudson

The left will argue that if you allow circumcision for males, then you have to allow it for females under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. The Muslim community will demand it in the continuing push for Sharia law to have a de facto legitimacy in the US.

The left will attack and dismiss the argument that female circumcision is a barbaric, horrific and debilitating mutilation and thus is different from male circumcision. But they will also use it to argue that outlawing all circumcision is the only way to ensure that female genital mutilation doesn’t have to be made legal under the US Constitution.


10 posted on 04/29/2011 1:57:55 PM PDT by Maceman (Obama -- he's as American as nasi goreng)
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To: Maceman
The left will argue that if you allow circumcision for males, then you have to allow it for females under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. The Muslim community will demand it in the continuing push for Sharia law to have a de facto legitimacy in the US.

Would the Muslim community do that? I thought female circumcision was a cultural practice common in North Africa areas dominated by Islam, but not a practice required by Islam.

17 posted on 04/29/2011 2:16:52 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Governor Romney, why would any conservative vote for the author of the beta version of ObamaCare?)
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The problem with that argument, if the left tries to use it, is female “circumcision” is actually a clitorectomy, with multiple organs removed and then a sewing up of the opening leaving only a tiny hole for urine to pass out. That does not compare to male circumcision.


28 posted on 04/29/2011 3:35:52 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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