Putin and Circumcision?

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http://abc.net.au/news/2002/11/item20021113013050_1.htm

Strange comments?

[fallout]

from the article:

Russia's media expressed has shock over a remark by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Russia-EU summit in which he urged a Western reporter asking about the war in Chechnya to come to Moscow and "get circumcised".

This is the story that made it to the webpage. Well written.

I think he may have meant to say "castrated". The lines:

""But if you are prepared to become the most radical Islamist and prepared to get circumcised - I invite you to Moscow.

"We have specialists that deal with this problem. I suggest that you do such an operation that nothing grows out of you again," Mr Putin reportedly said. "

Is just a wierd following to "circumcised".

[IMHO]

I think he may have meant to say "castrated"

That, roughly speaking, what he meant.

His words should be read as "But if you are prepared to become the most radical Islamist and prepared to get castrated - I invite you to Moscow"

Golden words!

[Grace]

Are you sure?

I thought he meant what he said, circumcision being a Moslem practice regarded as freaky by non-Moslem, non-Jewish Eastern Europeans.

[IMHO]

OK, here is verbatim et literatim translation:

"If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, then I invite you to come to Moscow. I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back, afterward” said the president. (Vladimir Putin's angry remark was translated by AP).


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