The above corporations have and are actively sponsoring 'Operation Tule'(annual summer bash for mass circumcision) in the Philippines.

This web site has done and is still doing extensive research into the subject of male and female circumcision. What has become apparent is that most sites on this topic are strongly against the practice. For every one in favor there are one hundred against. But even more interesting are the number of organizations around the world that are each fighting against this evil practice. There are literally thousands but most are not aware of each other. There are doctors and nurses groups, Jewish and Islamic groups, mothers and fathers groups, Christian and non-religious groups all maintaining the same opinion; Routine circumcision is not a necessary medical procedure and it is violation of the rights of all children, male or female.

Many of these groups access this site and I hope that they will all get together and have a unified attack on this problem. Doctors, Nurses and Social Workers need to come up with a list of those opposing circumcision. The same goes for the musicians and artists as well as the every day person who can influence their Congressman, Senator or MP. This is a time to unify and communicate. If a letter of opposition was sent to all the US legislators signed by two thousand doctors and nurses it would get noticed! If musicians, actors and performers made a point of opposition before or after performances, it would help.

What adults do to themselves is essentially their own business, however misguided it may be, but there is no justification, religious, cultural or medical for the sexual mutilation of children and quite simply it must stop.

If we cannot stop this simple act of mutilation how can we (human race) ever think we can stop the many other forms of human rights violations that plague our world.

What it teaches children is that violence is justified and that the weak and disadvantaged, children, females and the social outcasts bear the brunt of this and other male orientated abuse.

In the developed world over the last 150 years society has developed the concept that children are the future and that what ever is done to them is often done by them in adulthood. This is more often the case. Childhood is a Victorian concept and so alas is modern routine circumcision. As the Urban Rebel slogan states, “Every culture has something to bring to the table of humanity”. Childhood is something good, circumcision is something bad. We must all learn to distinguish the differences.

Developed countries are secular, and religion is not an absolute but a choice of faith. It is an individual choice not one automatically bestowed upon ones offspring. The age of majority is merely the start of adulthood, manhood; one does not become instantly an adult. This is the point at which one starts one’s journey. It might take five years, it might take fifty.

One this page you will find links to many sites. More will be added and if anyone has a link not up, please email it to us.

The Urban Rebel