Ex-doctor Mohammad Siddiqui jailed over illegal circumcisions

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3l1pw1gwxo

by SlySquire

24 comments

  1. > Some of his procedures left the children “screaming” in agony, Inner London Crown Court heard on Wednesday.

    The parents who allowed him to do this to their children should be in prison too.

  3. I was circumcised for religious reasons and will always detest the fact that no laws protected me. I wish it was not legal to circumcise under 18s without medical reason

  4. >The court previously heard how Siddiqui had used a rusty medical instrument to circumcise children and gave insufficient pain relief.
    >One tool had a “rusty, serrated” edge while others had not been properly sterilised, prosecutors said.

    Are these the doctors you guys keep talking about?

  5. The joys of importing doctors from top-quality medical institutions such as the University of Punjab. WTF do they teach them in Pakistan?!

  6. So when will feminists like jess phillips start saying we should ban mutilation of male genitals

  7. What he did seems very deliberate; he wanted to hurt these children. And there’s nothing to stop him from continuing after his release in a couple of years.

    And why aren’t the parents being prosecuted for child abuse and negligence?

  8. Usually I’d hope he got the sack, but in this case…..

  9. He’s gotten five years and seven months just fyi.

    The cost of violating an infant’s right to bodily autonomy and irreperably mutilating then for life is cheap in this country apparently. 

  10. So he mutilated children. Great. Why isn’t he being deported?

  11. Look at this beautiful baby God has made. Now let me just correct something.

  12. Careful now, you may get arrested for grossly offensive Islamophobic social media posts.

  13. All child genital mutilation should be illegal. It’s barbaric and doesn’t belong in this century.

  14. This conviction and the comments here are extremely islamaphobic.

    He (and the myriad of individuals who came to him for this holy medical operation) are simply expressing their culture!

    I’m neither Jewish or Islamic but i’m tempted to get circumcised myself to show my solidarity with my oppressed newly adopted kin.

  15. Article says he “Cut Corners” funny anatomy if corners are involved?

  16. Time that male genital mutilation was banned, like female genital mutilation.

  17. It’s funny how everyone is blaming Muslims for this practice but they fail to realise or acknowledge that Jews also carry out the practice of circumcision as part of their religious doctrine. There have been documented instances where some Rabbis removed foreskin with their mouth (see metzitzah b’peh – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1336756/) and the child died because of the viral infection that it got from the Rabbi. Whether you agree with it or not the double standards are obvious.

    If the comments alone don’t demonstrate Islamophobia then I don’t know what does. Let’s remember this practice is far too common in other ethnic & religious groups and all should be called out.

    No doubt I will be downvoted and called an anti-Semite for this.

  18. Here in Ireland, a Jewish Rabbi, and Mohel and member of the member of the Initiation Society (founded 1745), a thus legally qualified to carry out circumcisions in The United Kingdom, was arrested for carrying out an illigal circumcision on a twin baby (he was caught just before he circumcised the other twin and unrelated baby). The odd thing is the parents of the babies weren’t Jewish, they were Christian and Muslim. I think I read the twins belonged to the Christian parents, so I wonder what their motivation was. I think some Christian sects support circumcision.

    Ireland, like the UK, allows circumcision for religious and valid medical reasons, but this must be carried in a sterile environment, in hospital.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/jewish-community-stands-fairly-and-squarely-behind-rabbi-accused-of-illegal-circumcision-6467765-Aug2024/

    Edit:

    >Circumcision is considered a customary practice among Oriental Christian denominations such as the Coptic, Ethiopian, and Eritrean Orthodox churches.

  19. Maybe if our law enforcement had better funding and better priorities, we’d be able to launch a nation wide investigation into rooting out the scope of this issue.

    With the level of fundamentalism present in some communities, this is definitely not an isolated case of mutilation.

  20. You would think that unnecessarily cutting bits of your body off would be an insult to a deity if anything as your basically saying that there’s a flaw in their design of humans.

  21. Why are Jews and Muslims so obsessed with people’s bits? It really is concerning. Leave kids alone unless there is a medical reason. Sod any religious reasoning – it is mutilation of someone who doesn’t have a choice.

  23. Fun fact; the number of people claiming they were abducted by aliens dropped drastically when hospitals started using anaesthetics on babies who were having an operation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies

    > As recently as 1999, it was widely believed by medical professionals[2] that babies could not feel pain until they were a year old

    Since they regularly started giving them pain medication as standard, the number of alien abduction claims has plummeted.

    Babies are very sensitive to light. They see the world as being far brighter than adults do.

    So the theory goes that alien abduction claims were simply traumatic experiences of children. The bright lights and odd shaped figures were operating theatres and the surgeons wearing masks, viewed from the perspective of someone with very sensitive eyes and suffering a lot of pain.

    For men, this experience was almost 100% correlated with circumcision without pain killers.

  24. How about we stop using ‘circumcision’ and just call it what it is; genital mutilation. Non-consensual genital mutilation, at that.

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