Persistence of belief is a hard thing, as is cognitive dissonance. If he truly believed he wouldn't have a problem talking about anything about his faith, he'd be confident his believe would be vindicated through the questioning.
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Yes, and he is painfully aware of that. Thing is, he barely has an alternative. It is how he was raised. There are good things in Islam that I, too, want to pass on. Circumcision, however, is not on that list.
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Oh I don't doubt there are good things in any and all faiths, I doubt there are any faiths without their bad points. Divinely inspired or not, all faiths of the world were built by people, and people are flawed, anything they build will be flawed.
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Awww, thanks! The thing is, if all that is intrinsically intertwined with Islam in your head, you will pass on the bad things, too. Not because you're a good person (or you want to be one), but because you think everything good you were raised with stems from your belief system.
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I mean we only have to look at what's going on in pakistan right now to see some of the uglier side of Islam. Mobs of people literally calling out for blood, but the average Muslim is just like the average person anywhere else, pretty much just trying to live their lives, and >>
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2> there's no problems with that... well except when they have boys and chose to put their faith above their son's rights and wellbeing, but other than that!
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It is a lot more than just a characteristic of faith in God. There is a whole aspect of cleanliness going with it, and I *hate* that. It is misogyny in its worst form.
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Gonna stop you there, male circumcision isn't misogyny, though it does damage her sexual experience, it's him that is cut on, it's the boy that always has to deal with it for life. If anything it's misandry.
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Indeed, of course it is misandry. But it is being used (and mostly abused) to justify a misogynist discourse. Must be because I am a woman (and a rape survivor) that I would be more sensitive to things like those.
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Perhaps so, I can't claim to be an expert on Islamic culture, It's not the faith I was born into, or any that I have moved into at any time, and it isn't likely one I will go into either. I'm an outside observer there, and yes there is a lot of misogyny involved in the faith,>>
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2> but no one is more harmed by any religious male circumcision than the man who loses a part of his body without his consent.
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That's why I always say that this type of society may not be good for a woman to grow up in, but neither is it for a man. People tend to forget that.
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