How do you talk relatives out of ritual circumcision of a child?

[UrbanDad]

A (non=-ewish) female friend of mine is married to a quite nice jewish DH. They have just had a baby boy and DH's parents and aunts/uncles are putting pressure on him to have their DS circumcised. DH is equivocal but my friend is dead set against it. I think it's barbaric - how would you react to a member of your family putting pressure on you to mutilate your child's genitalia? No apologies - it's child abuse pure and simple and should be criminalised. Religion is no excuse for this mediaeval, unenlightened superstitious crap.

Has anyone got any experience of talking moronic religious extremist relatives out of this stupidity? (Apologists for/proponents of/justificants of ritual circumcision please don't even bother responding to this post.)

It is not illegal because of RELIGION - which has been a passport to mutilate, torture and kill yet immediately stops any value judgement in it's tracts from rational intelligent thinkers.
It's a matter of "belief" you see.....

Well I don't second that Athene. I don't believe inflamatory delivery if a crime on MN or anywhere else where freedom of speech is practiced.

I can't speal for UD, but from my POV, it has nothing to do with respecting opinions. If it were only a religious opinion and not an act that we were discusing, you might have a point. But the fact is we are talking about actions, not simply words or opinions. I believe in universal human rights, and they transcend culture and religion.

I can't think why any reasoning person would want to hurt a baby or small child for any reason. Please enlighten me if you can.

To a certain extent I find this similar to my DH wanting my DD to have her ears pinned back. He has sticky out ears, and was teased as a child. Our GP has sugested she has it done aged 5. As her mother though, I really can't jsutify causing her physical pain to make her prettier.