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December 2020

December 17, 2020

Op-ed: Government & Religion

IN November the UK Government launched an Independent Faith Engagement Review, headed by the Director...

October 2019

October 08, 2019

Sweden’s circumcision vote: rabbi warns of growing intolerance

RABBI Pinchas Goldschmidt, above, President of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), has slammed Sweden’s...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

Charities allowed to promote infant mutilation if it ‘advances religion’

I HAD never heard of the The Initiation Society and the charity status it enjoys...

June 2019

June 06, 2019

Foreskin art is the latest weapon against infant circumcision

BACK in 2015, a crowdfunding campaign was launched to finance research into the regeneration of...

February 2019

February 13, 2019

UK body modification trial raises questions about circumcision

CIRCUMCISIONS carried out for religious reasons on children who are unable to consent to the...

December 2018

December 25, 2018

Two-year-old boy dies in Italy after botched religious circumcision

Following our report last week that a Muslim doctor had been suspended for a string...

December 23, 2018

Winnipeg penis butcher suspended after botched circumcisions

Winnipeg doctor Ejaz Ahmad, above, has been suspended for five months by the College of...

July 2018

July 20, 2018

Harvard man sacked for 'anti-Semitic' circumcision show

Beneath a recently uploaded YouTube video of his one-man show Sex & Circumcision: An American...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

Denmark's bid to ban male circumcision hits the buffers

Denmark’s ruling Liberal Party has come out against a ban on the circumcision of young...

April 08, 2018

UK doctor faces prosecution over Islamic circumcision

The mother of a boy who was circumcised against her wishes is seeking to challenge...

March 2018

March 12, 2018

UK judge prevents girl from being taken to India for FGM

A UK court has banned an Indian-origin family from flying their baby daughter to India...

March 02, 2018

Circumcision ban 'would hand Hitler a posthumous victory'

A heated debate has erupted in the wake of Iceland's plan to abolish male infant...

February 2018

February 14, 2018

Icelandic lawmakers are acting 'like Nazis' over circumcision

Jewish leaders in four Nordic countries have reacted angrily to a ban on non-medical circumcision...

October 2017

October 29, 2017

'Militant secularists are after our kids' says US law professor

Conservative Catholic thinker and Princeton University law professor Robert George claimed in Washington on October...

August 2017

August 20, 2017

Protest in Coventry halts circumcision of boy aged 14

On August 1, a teenager posted a message on Reddit ExMuslim, in which he said...

May 2017

May 20, 2017

Dagbladet's anti-circumcision cartoon attacked by rabbi

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, has called on Norwegian authorities...

May 18, 2017

FGM practitioners in Michigan face harsh new penalties

Following the arrest last month of Muslim Dr Jumana Nagarwala, accused of mutilating girls for...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

US doctor admits mutilating girls for religious reasons

Jumana Nagarwala, above, a Detroit-area Muslim doctor accused of mutilating the genitals of young girls,...

March 2017

March 10, 2017

Rabbis appeased – and infant boys suffer the consequences

Several years ago Orthodox Jews in New York city kicked off when an attempt was...

December 2016

December 06, 2016

Danish doctors take a stand against infant circumcision

While stopping short of calling for a total ban on circumcision, the Danish Medical Association...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Rabbi exposed for running a circumcision racket in Israel

Rabbi Eliyahu Asulin, of Hadera, above, is being paid thousands by students wanting to become...

August 2016

August 03, 2016

In India, Muslim women who oppose FGM are called infidels

Before he tumbled off his perch in 2014, aged 102, Dr Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, above...

April 2016

April 22, 2016

Court's circumcision ruling welcomed by secular medic

Dr Antony Lempert , above, of the Secular Medical Forum, has welcomed a High Court...

March 2016

March 12, 2016

UK 'intactivists' plan protest against a 'mutilation' clinic

Anti-circumcision activists led by Mike Buchanan, above, are to mount a protest on March 22...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

'Compromise' proposed over FGM: a little 'nick' will suffice

There’s much discussion on social media of a piece in the Journal of Medical Ethics...

March 2012

March 08, 2012

Barbaric ritual leads to another death

RITUAL circumcision is an abomination. But the bizarre practice of sucking the blood from a...

February 2010

February 23, 2010

The Meaning of Life 2

WELCOME to the second part of our interview with PROFESSOR A C GRAYLING. Here, PETER...

October 2009

October 22, 2009

Lunatic botches his own circumcision

He later mutilates his son's penis A GOD-ADDLED Vancouver man who circumcised his four-year-old son...