


While this is explicitly recognized within Judaism, in the Muslim world, no such claims are made for male circumcision.

Both in Judaism and Islam, genital cutting for males is seen as a badge of membership to the community. Brit milah is the ritual in which boys' names are made public to the extended family and the community. In Islam, typically from childhood to puberty, and in Judaism. In both cases, genital cutting is done as a: The vast majority of genital cutting in the world is done for religious motives (though not all members of genital cutting religions adhere to the practice).
