Category — Circumcision

Not content with slicing and dicing half of Africa, Dr. Inon Schenker, the head of “Operation Abraham,” is coming to the U.S. to promote his panacea for AIDS.

David Wilton writes,

He wants to do it in the name of science despite the inappropriateness of the intervention to the local epidemic and in the name of an unspoken circumcision ideology/colonialism (Israeli and Jewish).

I can’t make it any more stark than that.

Jews should be wary of this kind of Jewish-led push. But they won’t be. Get ready for Jewish media to pop all over themselves in pride that, “Jews have understood that [male] circumcision is healthy for thousands of years!”

How hard is it to really reflect that maybe we have a religious and/or cultural bias on this one? How skeptical do we need to be about corruption with the flimsy and anecdotal data that we are using to “prove” the “need” for universal MGM?

Why is there greater HIV among Black and Hispanic Americans? Because they don’t use condoms, and injection drug use. Therefore, what should the push be? For them to use condoms, and not share needles. Instead, the Jews find any excuse to cut. Just any excuse.

Dr. Godfrey Kigozi sure is a lucky fellow to have found that virtually no one (or their partners) had any adverse effects from male circumcision, only wonderful praise for how much better sex is now that they removed part of their penises. Now he can continue to receive lots more cash from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

This is a sound strategy, and should be replicated elsewhere. For instance, why don’t we also put oil companies in charge of studying these crazy claims of deleterious effects from automobile fumes? I bet we will be a lot happier with the results they find. And the press can clamor to report the good results!

While the benefits of male circumcision are being reconsidered and scaled back (who would have guessed?), all over the Internet and in major news publications, circumcision is being touted as not only not having a deleterious effect on sexuality, but is being promoted to increase sexual satisfaction.

There are a few potential problems with this study.

Firstly, it contradicts studies that were not anecdotal, but empirical.

Secondly, the results are befitting of an election under Saddam Hussein.

Thirdly, the doctor, Godfrey Kigozi, who oversaw this study appears to be a major circumcision advocate, tied into the the WHO slush fund for AIDS prevention. Presumably, a lot of money is coming his way to slice and dice. I mean, a lot of money.

I am concerned that this might not have been an honestly brokered study. I would hope that intactivist organizations will review this situation.

UPI reports,

Ethiopia was just the start! So now that you're cut, are you ready for mincha?

An agreement was reached at a recent visit of Senegalese doctors and health officials to Israel, Operation Abraham, the organization in charge of the medical teams, said.

During their visit, team members participated in workshops and visited Israeli hospitals where adult circumcisions are performed. They also learned about the traditional Jewish circumcisions ceremonies carried out on a community level, a statement said.

Oh, how beautiful. You know what these “traditional Jewish ceremonies” means? It means they’ve cleared the way for half of Africa to claim Jewish heritage, and demand that the State of Israel absorb them. Some liberal American rabbis will eventually insist on it. You know how they are. And frankly, Israel is asking for it.

You cut it, you bought it.

Welcome to the tribe

The AP reports,

Health officials say 37 boys have died following traditional circumcisions in South Africa since June 1, with 13 deaths in the past week alone.

The number is a dramatic increase from last year’s 24 deaths. Provincial health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo says more than 100 boys have been hospitalized with infections caused by circumcision in Eastern Cape province.

Circumcision of youths in their late teens is a rite of passage for many in the Xhosa tribe.

It’s a lot easier to hide complications with newborns.

Jason Siegal and Zachary Levi Balakoff explain their Intactivist reasoning. I think that they overreach a bit, since there is certainly violence in non-circumcising societies, and the violence of the U.S. is grossly overstated and politicized in a dubious manner. Having said that, it does seem that the most brutal societies on earth correspond to those with the most radical forms of genital mutilation.

When Siegel and Balakoff begin to understand that their cause is not a far-Left issue, but rather, a moderate-Left issue, I think they will become better emissaries for the Intactivist movement. I suspect that they associate Intactivism with the far-Left camp because within the Jewish community, it is considered a more radical position than in general western society. I would remind Siegel and Balakoff that the far-Left is hardly compassionate on issues that affect men generally, and many of those who are receptive to the Intactivist movement, especially the moms, are thoughtful, moderate people. Not Marxists, and not fahbrentenah feminists.

It seems like he is a Muslim, no?

SR International reports,

A Stockholm hospital is warning parents about a man who has caused injuries to boys he has circumcised. The man lost his licence to circumcise back in 2007 following several incidents, but according to the hospital has continued carrying out the operation illegally since then, with several boys being rushed to the hospital with serious injuries.
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Circumcision on boys is a traditional practice in the Jewish and Islamic faiths, and since the man was banned there has been no-one with a licence in the Muslim community in Stockholm to carry out the practice, meaning many Muslim families have gone to private clinics and even to a licenced circumcisor, or mohel, in the Jewish community here.

Let’s be honest about one thing. While certainly the injuries received by these poor boys are worse than usual, all people are injured when they are circumcised.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports,

A Fulton County jury has awarded $1.8 million in damages to a boy whose penis was severed in a botched circumcision.

The state court jury gave another $500,000 to the boy’s mother in the decision rendered Friday.
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“This case does point out one of the dangers of circumcision that every parent must seriously consider when having the procedure done,” Llewellyn said. He contended that parents are not told of the risks of the procedure.

Reacting to the results of a small study performed by Johns Hopkins Medical University upon a tribal people in Uganda, the U.N. and the W.H.O. have endorsed total genital excision of all people everywhere in order to curb HIV infections, and other STDs such as the HPV virus.

“This is a very promising study, and I think we need to pour billions of dollars into implementing it everywhere.” Said Dr. Arianne Horowitz.

P.E.P.F.A.R. is also investigating funding to remove children’s eyes in order to prevent onchocerciasis. Dr. Decocks explained that, “While this disease is presently limited in terms of its immediate magnitude to central and western Africa, it has already spread to Yemen as well, and it’s best not to take chances.” Decocks also noted that it is far easier for children to learn Braille than later in life.

Also under review is a U.N. sponsored program, piloted in Uganda, of amputating children’s hands to decrease the chances of rheumatoid arthritis in their senior years. The name of this program is called, “Operation Ibrahim.” Mufti Akhbar ibn Fatwah noted smugly, “We Muslims have known of the prophylactic health benefits of hand removal for thousands of years, but only now is the West finally catching up!”

Deborah Kotz writes in U.S. New and World Report,

“To snip or not? Any parent of an infant son faces this circumcision question; for some, like me, it’s a no-brainer.”

Okay. You and your readers know what is truly motivating you. Religion. So why not skip thee whole article entitled, “Why Women Should Favor Circumcision: To Prevent HPV Infection“?

Why do so many Jews — who ultimately, are motivated by religious and/or cultural sensibilities — feel the need to convince gentiles that male circumcision is such a wonderful idea?

Frankly, when I read a Jew advocating for circumcision for “health” reasons, I have learned to expect it to be one-sided and highly selective in terms of evaluating evidence.

I know it seems like Kotz is being honest about her bias, but at the risk of sounding cynical, but I don’t think she means it quite as “in full disclosure” as we might want it to mean. Rather, I think it is the usual, self-congratulatory, “And we Jews have known of its health benefits for thousands of years, and only now is the West catching up!”