Angela Merkel intervenes over court ban on circumcision of young boys (in Germany)

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174. Did you read my post?

Clearly, you didn't. Clearly, you read the title of my post, and your eyes were too busy rolling in a crazed rage to actually see anything other than the reply button.

There is no comparison between the two in regards to the severity of what is done to the victim. Yes, the many varieties of female genital mutilation are all worse than male circumcision. If you're desperately hoping I'm going to downplay the harm caused to girls by this barbarity, you're sorely mistaken.

Where the two varieties of tribal barbarism are comparable is in the fact that in both cases, it is being performed without the consent of the child involved. A person's body is being permanently altered, without any input from that person. Instead, we have parents, or a society at large, calling for permanent disfigurement of an unwilling child's body, for reasons of fashion or tribal identity.

That one practice is clearly more harmful to the victim than the other, does not make the less harmful one acceptable.