> German law, BGB §1631d (last updated 2012) allows circumcision by qualified non-medical religious practitioners. Non-medical implies that they do not have access to proper painkillers. edit: within first 6 month of birth.

Now imagine getting circumcized at 6 or 8, with scissors, without anesthesia by someone that isn't a doctor... this is the fate of many young boys in Africa.

It's as bad as FGM.