Female Genital Mutilation and Male Circumcision Should Both Be Abolished

xodus from Egypt, and it thereafter became a special
             mark of the tribe."[13] Across the Near East, mutilations appeared before
             the "eruptions of Moslem armies in the 600s A.D., but were subsequently
             spread wherever Moslem armies ventured."[14] Although, there is no
             specific Koranic mandate regarding male or female genital mutilations,
             Mohammed viewed them as desirable' and they remain predominate in Moslem
             areas today.[15] "Male genital mutilations were never adopted widely in
             Europe, European Australia, Canada, Latin America, in the Orient, or by
             Hindus, Southeast Asians, or Native Americans."[16] Infant circumcision
             did not spread to the Untied States until the late 1800's and early 1900's
             only after allopathic medical doctors recommended it as a cure for
             childhood diseases and disorders such as "polio, tuberculosis, bedwetting,
             and a new syndrome which appeared widely in the medical literature known as
             Many psychoanalysts conclude that male genital mutilations form
             ...

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