DK: Ayhan Al Kole: "Your body - your right"


  • Your body - your right
    As a circumcised man, doctor and Muslim background, I will always defend children against being ritually circumcised. Personal liberty is inviolable - even in children

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    I was circumcised as a 4 year old. As a defenseless animals, I was held in the arms and legs of my nanny and her mother. Be so good, quick stunning and 1-2-3 and away the foreskin. I remember the cold scissors against my penis, as it was yesterday. It is not the circumcision, I oppose, but circumcision of children. I was robbed of my choice, nobody asked me what I wanted. They forced ritual that leaves an innocent individual mutilated, can never be equated with personal freedom and ownership over their own body, which applied to you when you were circumcised.

    Indeed, as the history of female circumcision suggests, if male circumcision
    were confined to developing nations, it would by now have emerged as an in-
    ternational cause celebre, stirring passionate opposition from feminists, physicians, politicians, and the global human rights community. If routine medical
    circumcision didn't exist today, no one would dare to invent it.

    David Gollaher

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