The Discovery Channel features a short film from Malaysia, which compares traditional community events for mass circumcision against no fuss procedures at medical clinics.
Thanks to a disposable circumcision clamp invented by a Malaysian doctor, parents of young Muslim boys increasingly favor getting it done at clinics. Tara KLamps are supposed to make the experience less traumatic.
It’s quite a successful invention. To order the device you need a gauge for size, like the way jewelers measure fingers for rings. I find this rather amusing. Check out pictures of the gauge at the site.
Muslims circumcise their boys when they reach 12 years of age. That was how old Ishmael (the forefathers of the Arabs?) was when God instructed Abraham to keep his covenant by circumcising every male.
The Jews circumcise their boys when they are eight days old, like it was the case for Isaac.
Thank goodness, in the New Testament, it is no longer important that a person is physically circumcised. It is the heart that counts.
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hugh7 // April 29, 2008 at 9:28 pm
“To order the device you need a gauge for size, like the way jewelers measure fingers for rings. I find this rather amusing.”
OK, now imagine that instead of a ring, what comes in the post is a clamp that cuts off the flow of blood to your finger till it falls off. That’s how the Tara KLamp works. Not so amusing.
You’re absolutely right that Christians are not obliged to circumcise (many seem to be still confused about this), but “medical” reasons, just as bogus, have taken religion’s place.
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