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In her opinion, "''The movement to criminalize ritual circumcision is spearheaded by '''[[uncircumcised]] men''' who feel morally obliged to protect innocent boys from “ancient stone age rituals”''". This, of course, ignores the testimonials of men of all nationalities who were hurt physically and psychologically by their circumcision and continue to push for the age restriction of the procedure, such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53bgxGl88A Richard Duncker] of Men Do Complain (UK), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Z2BXC8tzM Christian Bahls], president of Association of Children Victims Affected by Violence Against their Physical Integrity (MOGiS eV), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5d4aVOG6Os Eran Sadeh] Israeli founder of "Protect the Child" and many others.
Von Kellenbach goes on to say that "''It is '''Christian men''' who want to prevent the medically unnecessary suffering of Muslim and Jewish boys''" - Again, this is an attempt at creating a division that does not exist. There are Jewish, Muslim, African, Christian, American, Atheists, Pagans and men and women of all races, nationalities and faiths, expressing their opposition to [[circumcision]]. The attempt to re-frame and create this division is simply an attempt to frame the opposition to circumcision with anti-Semitism, something far from the truth.
Another common way to derail the discussion, used also by von Kellenbach, is to argue that the arguments against circumcision are simply emotional. This is simply countered by the opposition of medical associations, the existing studies showing the negative effects, not only the sexual effects, but also the [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9057731 traumatic effect of neonatal pain].
Von Kellenbach keeps trying to divide the readers by arguing that "''Feminists, who work against sexual violence, such as FGM, are '''recruited''' into campaigns to outlaw gender-neutral ritual circumcisions''". In other words, feminists do not join the movement for [[genital integrity]], they are recruited, they are deceived, with the purpose of "''criminalizing Muslim and Jewish minorities''" (and she still has the nerve to say that the arguments against circumcision are emotional!)
So basically, in von Kellenbach's view, the [[genital integrity]] movement is created by European intact Christian men who recruit feminist women with the purpose of criminalizing Muslim and Jewish minorities. Perhaps Ms. von Kellenbach should visit the [[United States ]] and speak with some of the [[intactivists ]] here before writing about a movement that she evidently didn't take the time to understand and learn about.
=== Conclusions ===