I can envisage a situation with the police raiding synagogues and mosques and mullahs and rabbis and parents in jail, and bootleg circumcisions with rusty razors and all kinds of unpleasantness.And the EDL and BNP applauding and holding rallies in support I just don't think a ban would be on.

I suppose we can be glad that "female circumcision" never became so embedded in mainstream religion. I see that in Indonesia an attempt to ban that has been stopped, because out there it has become embedded in this way.