YOUR BRITISH HERITAGE AND THE SWORD OF ISLAM Â
Two hundred and twenty-six years ago young Warren Hastings was  circumcisedâŚ.forcibly! Twenty-four year old Warren, along with  three hundred of his fellow English workers at the Old London  Company offices in Cossimbazar, India, was stripped, sodomized,  masturbated and publicly circumcised by the Moghul troops who  overran the British outpost.  Warren watched in fascination and  horror as his prepuce was carried away in a bag containing all  three hundred freshly severed foreskinsâŚ.trophies for the  Moslem Moghuls.  Lanky, effeminately handsome Hastings, destined  to become one of Britainâs great colonial statesmen, wrote of his  ordeal, âI, myself, was carvedâŚ.â   Hastingsâ carving was not the first time an Englishman had been  circumcised at the hands of Islamic warriors, and it was not to  be the last time.  The Arabs, Turks and Afghans as well as the  Moghuls have had their turns at plucking off British
prepuces.  In southern India, Ma'ajoon, an intoxicating combination of herbs  was employed during the forced circumcision of captives,  producing stupification and causing the penis to rise; the  aphrodisiac made the ceremony easier and, by being performed on  an erect shaft, preserved much of the foreskin.  Tippoo Sultaun,  the tiger of Mysore, used this method on British troops to make  certain they survived and, by incomplete circumcision, to brand  them only partially cleansed; quasi-Mohammedans.  As a prison in  the Mysorean dungeons of Swendroog, Cl. Sir David Baird, a  prominent Scottish officer, was thus mutilated along with other  young subalterns.  Baird and his fellow captives were seized by  powerful Abyssisian slaves, stripped naked and staked to the  ground, their limbs splayed wide.  A white bearded old surgeon  carefully pried his long, craggy fingers into each British penis,  determining the extent of the doomed foreskin.  Then the victimsâ  mouths were
forced open, introducing Ma'ajoon.  The wily old  circumciser waited patiently.  Soon, the drug had taken effect,  and each officer experienced masochistic stimulation; teeth  gritting, fist clenching, eyes transfixed as they watched their  penises rise in anticipation.  When each soldierâs manhood stood  at full flower, the old man announced, âPraise the lord!  Thou  art now to receive the ordinance of El-Knutneh, creating thee all  to True Believer.â  The razor flashed once over each penis.  The  rings of flesh were offered to the fire as liberation to Allah.   Although circumcision is not mentioned in the Koran, the prophet  Mohammed himself is quoted as saying âIt is an ordinance in men  and honorable in women.â  Many Islamic theologians have insisted  that Mohammed was born circumcised.  Most Moslem youths, however,  must wait to become âTrue Believerâ until sometime between their  adolescence and marriage, depending upon the sacred traditions of  the various tribes.
 In some desert areas, tribesmen include  circumcision in the wedding ceremony, using the bridegroomâs  newly-flayed penis in a test of his âmanly strengthâ when he  consummates the marriage.  Arab boys look forward to their  impending circumcision, the right of passage, with eager  eroticism, as they mutually masturbate their still-uncircumcised  penises and retract their foreskins to show each other how they  will look once they become âmenâ.   As with all Semitic races, the Arab tradition of circumcision predates their modern religion.  Historians usually theorize that  the practice of ritual circumcision among Semitics is derived  from ancient Egypt.  Little is known about the daily life of the  Egyptians, but proof of circumcision abounds in temple reliefs.  Early Egyptologists assumed that all Egyptian males were  circumcised, but more recently both circumcised and uncircumcised  penises have been found on the unwrapped mummies of pharaohs.  Modern Egyptologists
have pondered about just whom among the  Egyptians were circumcised and why".  An early Masonic historian,  Godfrey Higgins (âAnacalypsisâ, London 1836), writes, âPriests  only of the Egyptians were circumcised.â  Candidates for  priesthood, and for circumcision, were usually chosen from among  puberty-age, virgin boys.  Quoting modern Masonic historian,  Manly P. Hall (âFreemasonry of the Ancient Egyptiansâ, Los  Angeles 1936), âIn ancient Egypt learning was regarded as a high  privilege and education was under the direction of a small number  of individuals who were organized into bonds, pledges and vows of  secrecyâŚ.(a candidate) having applied at Heliopolis, was  referred to the Learned of the Institution at Memphis, and these  sent him to Thebes (where) he was circumcised.â   Some historians have contended that the priests of Egypt were  circumcised as a sacrifice, a forsaking of âsinful pleasuresâ.  However, the concept of sex as sin is not known to have been a
part of the Egyptian religion.  What is known is that the  circumcised penis was a symbol of fertility, as can be seen in  temple reliefs throughout Egypt.  According to Egyptologist, E.  A. Budge ( The Gods of the Egyptiansâ. Dover Publications), there  was a very early God of Circumcision whose job was to maintain  the fertility of the Nile banks.  Another early Egyptian myth  contended that God circumcised himself and the blood from his  penis fell and created the universe.  This myth is thought by  some to be the progenitor of the blood cults, in which animals  were sacrificed. and the blood covenants in the modern Semitic  religions.  Another theory, quite unorthodox, holds that the  Great Pyramid (Cheops) was not a tomb at all (it contained no  artifacts, no mummies, etc.) but was a temple of initiation.  The  young initiates to the priesthood were, supposedly, led single  file through the narrow passages receiving one initiatory degree  after another and, reaching
what is now called the âQueenâs  Chamberâ, they were circumcised and then proceeded up the Grand  Gallery towards the âKingâs Chamberâ and their final degree.  The  circumcised priests were the guardians of immortality; symbols of  fertility and life everlasting.  Sacred circumcision was not unique to Egypt in the ancient world.  According to Higgins the rite was performed on initiates to  secret societies in âTarnul, Chaldee, Madura and Tibetâ. An old  text, âAsiatic Studies, Vol. IIâ, refers to a Sacred Mystery  School in earliest Tibet which started the celebration of its  rites with the following herald, âProcul ! Hi âne procul c'ete,  profani!â  St. Chrystostom (Homelia 33, in Matt.) says, âWhen we  celebrate the Mysteries, we send away those who are not  initiated, and shut the doors, a deacon exclaiming, âFar from  hence, ye profane!  Close the doors!  Thy Mysteries are about to  begin. Things Holy for the saints, hence all dogsâ.  Disdain for  the profane (the
âdogâ, the uncircumcised male) has trickled down  from the Mystery priests to, centuries later, their Arab  adherents. Amazingly, the Moslems have traditionally used the  term âDogâ when referring to the uninitiated; the  uncircumcised.  "Christian Dog!â is a slander which has echoed  across many a battlefield. Islamic fervor, almost from its  beginning, aimed its sword at the offending appendage. As Islam  spread its message across the then-known world, historyâs  greatest proselytism of the circumcised penis took place and  foreskins were shorn from Spain to India to the East Indies.   High Islam (600-1100 AD) was a period of great culture and  tolerance for the Moslem world, and that tolerance often extended  to conquered Christian populations. In many countries, Christians  were not forced into conversion, or circumcision, because only  uncircumcised males could legally be taxed and the Arab  Caliphates needed the money. The Moslem rulers of Christian Syria  and
Sicily were among the most tolerant in all history only  Moslem Spain forced her Christian sons to shed their foreskins.  Indeed, Omar II (Umayyed Caliphate, 717- 712 AD) even argued  against religious circumcision âŚ. a late version of St. Paul. Then came the Crusades. The burly, marauding, rapine crusaders  who swept down from the European wilderness were truly barbarian  in the eyes of the Moslems. And, they were âdogsâ. Their clumsy  plunder was soon met, reluctantly, with calculated crueltyâŚand  Islam once again lost its tolerance for the uncircumcised penis.  Many a handsome Knight in shining armor was dispatched back to  his cold northern woods without the benefit of his âhoodâ. The  situation deteriorated until, by the time, five centuries later,  British colonialism set its gaze upon Moslem ruled India, it was  "As in Biblical timesâŚâ, quoting historian Allen Edwardes,  ("Jewel in the Lotusâ, Julian Press 1959), âthe slashed prepuces  of the Unbelievers,
heaped in mounds following a great battle, in  accordance with the rigid martial code of the Moghul Empire, the  warrior rose in rank according to the number of foreskins he  brought in from the field.â  At this moment in history, British  prepuce met Sword of Islam.   As the mighty British Empire expanded and Mother England sent  forth soldiers, adventurers and government clerks, more and more  of her Christian sons returned home with Islamized penises.  Unfortunately, many did not return but instead bled to death as a  result of their foreskin amputation.  Phimosis, the condition of  a tight or unretractable prepuce, seemingly had a high incidence  among the English, making cavalier circumcisions by Moslem  swordsmen risky, and as far back as 1661, the Old London Company  realized that her many phimosed employees were in mortal danger.  Knowing it was impossible to protect British foreskins from  zealot Moghuls, the British governor of Madras proclaimed that  all
applicants to the Company be âbodily examinedâ and if a cadet  could not âstrip his yardâ the company surgeon was obliged to  "clip ye skin entireâ.  Thus, in 1661, the first circumcision of  European Christians by European Christians was commenced, giving  impetus to three hundred years of routine circumcision in the  English speaking world.   The Old London Company records still exist giving explicit  details about who among her illustrious empire builders were  "clipcocks" and who were âpillcocksâ (or, peelcocks;  uncircumcised).  These terms gave rise to generations of English  schoolboy humor and playful contention, not to mention curiosity,  between possessors or the two styles of âcocksâ.  For many  generations the âclipcocksâ, in the minority, suffered great  indignation.  Robert Clive, the hero in the British takeover of  India, was angered when his phimosed penis was circumcised by the  company surgeon; âBy God, had I known I was to come out here to  be clipped
Iâd have forsaken pork and procured me a scullcap!â  When taunted by the pillcock cadets in his own company Clive  "âŚdid menace ye offending cadets with his pen-knife, asking who  should be the first in ye loss of his precious skin.â   By the early nineteenth century, however, the clipcock became  fashion among the British aristocracy, who wore it as a badge of  honorâproof of serving Throne and Empire in foreign service.