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* '''"Only the [[circumcision]] makes a boy a real Jew."'''
*: Refutation: In the Jewish-religious culture, a boy becomes a Jew automatically when he is born by a Jewish mother.
* '''"There is no internal Jewish debate about circumcision."'''
*: The many [[Intactivists|Jewish movements]] against the ritual [[circumcision]], founded in the Internet age, which also search for [[Brit Shalom|alternative rituals]], clearly show that an intra-Jewish debate exists very well.
*: But the ritual was repeatedly questioned in inner-Jewish debates even earlier. [[Walter Otte]] wrote about it in the [[HPD]]: "The combination of medicine and religion refers to the great decade-long intra-Jewish debate of the 19th century, brought in mainly Jewish doctors objection made against the circumcision of boys. In the middle of the 19th century, there were Jewish reform groups, Jewish doctors and rabbis, who entered intense discussions, which dealt with religious but also to health aspects of the Prepuce [[circumcision]] of boys. In debates or reform Rabbi and Jewish doctors (which even claimed the abolition of the [[FGM|Boy circumcision]]), the hospital doctor [[Gideon Brecher]] called the procedure a "bloody operation". The Dessau doctor [[Adolf Arnhold]] presented extensive arguing why [[circumcision]] is outdated as a "binding ritual of the Jews". He was based on religious considerations, called the biblical circumcision formations only of importance for "unbiased believers" and came to the conclusion that the material act of [[circumcision]] had become "a redundant and useless shell of the mentally bare core". [[Philipp Wolferts]] from Lemförde and the Hamburg doctor [[Moritz Gustav Salomon]] emerged with medical arguments, where Salomon came to the conclusion that [[circumcision]] was not religious but merely a political meaning in the 19th century at all."<ref>http://hpd.de/node/14033?nopaging=1</ref>
=== Islamic Religion ===