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posted by on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the natural-enemies dept.

Government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion increased in 2015 for the first time in three years, according to Pew Research Center's latest annual study on global restrictions on religion.

The share of countries with "high" or "very high" levels of government restrictions – i.e., laws, policies and actions that restrict religious beliefs and practices – ticked up from 24% in 2014 to 25% in 2015. Meanwhile, the percentage of countries with high or very high levels of social hostilities – i.e., acts of religious hostility by private individuals, organizations or groups in society – increased in 2015, from 23% to 27%. Both of these increases follow two years of declines in the percentage of countries with high levels of restrictions on religion by these measures.

Among the world's 25 most populous countries, Russia, Egypt, India, Pakistan and Nigeria had the highest overall levels of government restrictions and social hostilities involving religion. Egypt had the highest levels of government restrictions in 2015, while Nigeria had the highest levels of social hostilities.

Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly

Does this reflect your personal experience ?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:48PM (20 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:48PM (#496900)

    Just wanted to point out that (male) circumcision and female genital mutilation are not at all comparable. The male procedure is but a little snip while the female operation is complete butchery. The difference is like between common flu and ebola.

    Read and vomit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation [wikipedia.org]

  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:56PM (18 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:56PM (#496903)

    As the other AC pointed out, female genital mutilation includes pricking a girl's labia with a pin to draw a drop of blood. Boo Hoo.

    In contrast, even the most mild form of male circumcision destroys specialized sexual structures, and greatly diminishes (and often destroys) an entire mechanical aspect of the penis; male circumcision removes a proportionally huge swath of tissue from the penis, what becomes upwards of 15 square inches in the adult (I don't know about you, but my penis has gotten larger since I was an a child, let alone an infant).

    Male circumcision is disgusting—and it's often far more disgusting than the little nip of the clitoral hood that is performed on girls; in Egypt, female circumcision is performed by females, for females, on females.

    • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:40PM (6 children)

      by isostatic (365) on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:40PM (#496927) Journal

      The way you're writing that implies that female genital mutilation is more acceptable. I strongly disagree. Neither is acceptable, just like removing an arm is unacceptable, and removing a leg is unacceptable.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:50PM (5 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:50PM (#496934)

        I won't sit here and let you fools try to say "Hey, but wait, like, the womenfolk have it much worse!" It's just not true. IT'S JUST NOT TRUE.

        • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday April 20 2017, @08:07PM

          by isostatic (365) on Thursday April 20 2017, @08:07PM (#497035) Journal

          Which I believe is what I said - removing an arm is no more (or less) acceptable than removing a leg

        • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:01PM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:01PM (#497060)

          Log in please, we'd like to see who has the massive persecuted white male complex.

          • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:39PM (2 children)

            by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:39PM (#497080) Journal

            Can't claim GP comment as mine but frankly fuck you. How the fuck is a pin prick worse than amputating an entire organ?

            Oh, oh, oh, a clitoris that's forced to be an external organ is just soooooo awful! It's sooooooo awful! A Hunny got hurt!

            Because the glans is a totally different organ that god meant to be an external organ, just he was drunk a put a clitoral hood, er, foreskin over it by accident, right?

            Intact bodies are something only women deserve? Fuck you.

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 20 2017, @11:38PM

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday April 20 2017, @11:38PM (#497122) Journal

              This coming from an MtF is hilarious.

              So, how about this?: NO ONE HARMS OUR BABIES' GENITALIA, MALE OR FEMALE. Sounds weird coming from a lesbian feminist, maybe? I don't care. All our babies are precious and harming any of them for any superstitious reason is societal insanity. We're failing our boys, too, as a society.

              --
              I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @03:36AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @03:36AM (#497209)

              Weird weird weeeird response. Why can't we just say that genital mutilation is wrong whether male or female? As an intact male I can tell you that the foreskin is way less sensitive than the head, and I don't have a clitoris so I can't comment but being a major erogenous zone I would expect even minor pinprick could be quite painful. Also, as an intact male I can tell you that when the head is exposed it can be VERY sensitive. So I imagine a clitoris is the same way and once it is exposed it probably takes a while for any contact to stop hurting.

              You are way out there Kurenai, I've seen you get angry at people with little provocation, but to take what I said as condemning only female mutilation? You should really work on your reactionary behavior, if you're doing it online to this degree it probably comes out in real life as well and it is not ok.

              My more cynical side imagines that you are a fictional persona used to troll liberals by being an "untouchable" that can spout hatred that liberals (or whatever) won't push back against. Well, either way, FUCK YOU for trying to project that bullshit on to me.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Thursday April 20 2017, @06:33PM (7 children)

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday April 20 2017, @06:33PM (#496986)

      > As the other AC pointed out, female genital mutilation includes pricking a girl's labia with a pin to draw a drop of blood.

      Did you read that wikipedia page?
      There are multiple FGM types. The worst, which are very common include cutting off the labia and clitoris.

      Male circumcision is barbaric, but they cut the skin only, not the actual penis.

      • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday April 20 2017, @07:33PM (6 children)

        by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday April 20 2017, @07:33PM (#497016) Journal

        The worst, which are very common include cutting off the labia and clitoris.

        You're confused by feminist propaganda. Besides that one incident with, who was it, Boko Haram? a while back in Africa, citation or it didn't happen.

        What can and does happen is that a clitoral cut becomes infected, necessitating the removal of additional tissue. That was the reasoning behind the American Academy of Pediatrics' 2010 recommendation that US hospitals should begin performing clitoral slicing/pin-prick. It was meant as a harm-reduction measure.

        Feminists have hopelessly fucked this issue up. They tell lies about female circumcision to activate your instincts to protect the Hunnies, and they act like male circumcision is not only risk-free but necessary to prevent cervical cancer (again, protect the Hunnies because males are nothing more than sexual objects even as infants).

        You know what, though? Not a single goddamned feminist knows what it's like to live with a fucked up circumcision. There are males born right here in West who have lost their entire reproductive system because of circumcision. Cock, balls, whole nine yards. Went in for a "snip," left as a eunuch.

        But hey, if somebody fucks up your circumcision enough, I hear they'll let you into the womyn-born-womyn gender caste [latimes.com].

        R.I.P. David Reimer, a victim of male genital mutilation in a horrifying way that somebody cisgendered cannot even begin to imagine.

        • (Score: 4, Informative) by bob_super on Thursday April 20 2017, @07:45PM (3 children)

          by bob_super (1357) on Thursday April 20 2017, @07:45PM (#497020)

          > You're confused by feminist propaganda.

          Besides Wikipedia, I do indeed reserve my FGM-porn intake exclusively from official feminist agencies based in countries ruled by rabid feminist women:
          For example: http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/issues/fgm.html [aljazeera.com]

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Friday April 21 2017, @02:42PM (1 child)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 21 2017, @02:42PM (#497421) Journal

          their entire reproductive system... Cock, balls, whole nine yards

          This got me thinking... why-oh-why those emails in my spam folder advertise only 12 inches of reproductive system if 9 yards are the norm?

          --
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
          • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 21 2017, @04:49PM

            by kaszz (4211) on Friday April 21 2017, @04:49PM (#497487) Journal

            Your email hasn't been enlaaarged yet!
            Please type in your credit card number, social security, all STDs etc. And it will be fixed, we promise. ;)

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 20 2017, @08:34PM (2 children)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 20 2017, @08:34PM (#497046) Journal

      As the other AC pointed out, female genital mutilation includes pricking a girl's labia with a pin to draw a drop of blood. Boo Hoo.

      And it includes other things far more destructive (such as type III "infibulation" which has been practiced [who.int] on over 8 million women).

      what becomes upwards of 15 square inches in the adult

      So it is true that they aren't snipping 15 square inches of skin.

      I find it interesting that you can't protest male circumcision without exaggerating male circumcision and trivializing female circumcision. For the record, I used to favor male circumcision, but wouldn't now. But it's ridiculous how exaggerated the argument provided here is. I won't respect your pain or concern more just because you're dismissing other peoples' pain.

      • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:34PM (1 child)

        by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:34PM (#497076) Journal

        Amazing you don't find it interesting the mental contortions feminists go through to minimize ritual infant sexual objectification.

        Let me guess, fuck the victims of male circumcision, huh? Somebody's dick gets burned off by a laser scalpel, and it's just lol! to you. Less competition for the Hunnies, right?

        So why the fuck should you listen to feminists about this? The feminist argument consists solely of dismissing other people's pain. But it's ok with you to dismiss another man's pain or complete loss of reproductive capability because that's just more Hunnies for you, right?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:16PM (#496912)

    Get your head out of your ass. 15 square inches of adult skin is not a "little snip." A fucking pinprick is not "complete butchery."