The US is trying to lock up Muslim parents for life for circumcising their daughters in a manner that is less invasive than how they circumcise their sons, in what they regard as equally central to keeping their relgion: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2017/08/does-female-genital-mutilation-have-health-benefits-the-problem-with-medicalizing-morality/ …
Right, so I’m telling you that millions of Muslims find FGC a crucial part of their religion. But you did not seem to think that was worth taking at face value.
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Of course the judge should take it at face value, and then he/she can decide whether outlawing it would mean to hamper Muslim identity to such an extent that their religious liberty is damaged beyond fairness. But he/she does not decide what is 'really' religious, etc.
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And my point is: in this case the performance of Muslim religion is not hampered all too much by outlawing FGC.
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There are many Muslim communities that would strongly disagree with you.
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Well, outlawing FGC has only provoked very limited protests among Muslim minorities in the West. They seem to go along with it quite unproblematically. I sincerely doubt that the same would happen if MGC were outlawed, don't you think?
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