Germany: Religious Circumcisions Are Crimes
June 26th, 2012Via: The Local:
Non-medical circumcision is a “serious and irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body,” the Cologne district court ruled.
This criminalises religious circumcisions performed by Jews and Muslims, the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper said on Tuesday. It says circumcision should be considered a crime of bodily harm.
Thousands of very young boys are circumcised in Germany each year, mainly for religious reasons.
In the United States most boys are circumcised shortly after birth – regardless of their religion, though the practice has declined in recent years and anti-circumcision protest groups have sprung up.
German doctors performing circumcisions that are not medically necessary have until now operated in a grey legal area. Until now they could claim that they were unaware that performing a circumcision is a crime.
SANITY AT LAST.
and no, it’s not about stifling religious freedom… it’s about sparing generations of men from perverse infant mutilation (religiously-justified or not).
Yes, “for the good of the children”. Sigh. More like a marriage of convenience between Europe’s morbid dread of Islam and a rabidly fundamentalist secularism. Eventually all manifestations of religion will be criminalized under some pretext or other (“dignity of the person” is always a good one, that charge always puts one on the back foot), until it’s all been rendered quite safe and non-threatening.
Circumcision deaths are a legalized non-scandal
By Matthew Taylor
June 24, 2012
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/circumcision-deaths-are-a-legalized-non-scandal.html
The anatomy of the prepuce
Goodbye, I Would Have Liked To Get To Know You Better
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