(Male circumcision however is male circumcision, regardless of whether it is a Jew or a Muslim who does it.)

Or a Christian, Hindu, Atheist or whatever.

Don't worry, all the religions are equally strange and alien.

I miss the days when a group like Siouxsie and the Banshees could employ Arabian motifs in their music, and everybody thought it was cool.

But that music was based exactly on embracing some sense of being the other. Part of the point of the Goth/Punk/WhateverLabelFits thing, as far as I can work out.