Highlights
- Hollywood actor Russell Crowe has apologised for his harsh comments against circumcision on micro-blogging website Twitter.
- Responding to a fan on Thursday, who asked whether he was going to have his newborn child circumcised, Crowe tweeted, "Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are you to correct nature? Is it real that GOD requires a donation of foreskin?"
- "I love my Jewish friends, I love the apples and the honey and the funny little hats but stop cutting yr babies. if you feel it is yr right to cut things off yr babies (sic)."
Hollywood actor RussellCrowe has apologised for his harsh comments againstcircumcision on micro-blogging website Twitter.
Responding to a fan on Thursday, who asked whether hewas going to have his newborn child circumcised, Crowetweeted, "Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are youto correct nature? Is it real that GOD requires a donation offoreskin?"
"I love my Jewish friends, I love the apples and thehoney and the funny little hats but stop cutting yr babies. ifyou feel it is yr right to cut things off yr babies," he wrote further.
Crowe, who is starring in
The Man With the IronFists penned by Jewish writer-producer and actor Eli Roth,quickly realised the offense caused and removed the tweets,replacing them with messages of apology, reported E! Online.
"I have a deep and abiding love for all people of allnationalities, I'm very sorry that I have said things on herethat have caused distress. My personal beliefs aside I realisethat some will interpret this debate as me mocking the ritualsand traditions of others. I am very sorry," Crowe wrote.
The
Man With the Iron Fists co-written by Wu TangClan star Rza, and will be out later this year.