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To: starfish923; RipSawyer
90% of the human males on this planet don't have it done.

90% of the rest of the PLANET

Source please.

And think about it logically; male circumcision is dictated by Judeism and Islam. A good majority of Christians also participate in the practice. When you take those three groups alone, there's not exactly 90% of the world's male population left over. More around 40-60%, maybe less.

329 posted on 04/06/2006 6:53:54 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (Hitler and Stalin have nothing on Abortion)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
Muslims do not circumcize. Neither do the Asians (India is Asian.), Africans or C/S Americans. The only ones who still circumcize are Jews and Americans....and not all of the latter do any more. American Muslims, Asians, (foreign born) etc., do not have their sons circumcized either. Fewer Americans are chosing to have their sons circumcized. It's not an "automatic" anymore. Young Americans parents are CHOOSING or NOT choosing to have the procedure done.

It's a dying practice, like it or not.
This isn't judgmental, really, but I personally find it appalling. I find nose piercing appalling too, but not ear piercing. Purely subjective on my part....but the foreskin cutting?
Sorry, I don't think I will ever think it's a good thing. I always wondered why Americans did it. I knew Jews did it for religious reasons. But Americans? When the rest of the world DIDN'T do it? When I found out how MANY people didn't do it (somewhere in the late 60's), especially the very clean, anticeptic Japanese and Europeans....I knew that it WASN'T necessary for health, present or future.

340 posted on 04/06/2006 7:10:24 AM PDT by starfish923
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

More around 40-60%, maybe less.
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I personally never said anything about what percentage has it done, I don't consider the right or wrong of it to be something that can be decided by concensus. If I were the only person left on the planet speaking against circumcision I would still say that it is indeed a barbaric practice based in WILLFUL ignorance and makes as much sense as draining blood to cure illness, not so long ago the concensus would have supported that.


383 posted on 04/06/2006 12:10:31 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Acceptance of irrational thinking is expanding exponentiallly.)
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