Norway wants circumcision banned
Religious leaders express their anger JENNY Klinge, Norway’s Centre Party justice policy spokeswoman, has angered religious leaders by condemning the ritual circumcision of infant boys. Calling it...
View ArticleCircumcision: court ruling blasted
German decision is a ‘blood libel’ against Jews, says UK Chief Rabbi BRITAIN”S CHIEF Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, delivered a swingeing attack on a German court that demanded the banning of ritual...
View ArticleGermans retreat from circumcision ban
GERMAN lawmakers have passed a cross-party motion to protect religious circumcision, after a regional court ruled it amounted to bodily harm. According to the BBC, the resolution urges the government...
View ArticleBotched circumcision led to death
Infant’s killer escapes a jail sentence A NURSE who caused the death of an infant by crudely circumcising him today walked free from Manchester Crown Court. Grace Adeleye, 67, of Sarnia Court, Salford,...
View ArticleNordic states push for circumcision ban
AT meeting Oslo last week, Nordic ombudsmen for children, paediatricians, and paediatric surgeons agreed a resolution urging their national governments to work for a ban on non-therapeutic circumcision...
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Why circumcision should be abhorred
A couple from the US state of Georgia was recently arrested for tattooing six of their seven children with crosses. The mother bemusedly commented: I’m their mother. Shouldn’t I be able to decide if...
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This just sucks!
Two more infants have been infected with herpes following mouth-to-penis circumcision rites BOTH the New York infant boys are believed to have contracted the disease following metzitzah b’peh, an...
View ArticleMuslim circumciser guilty of misconduct
UK psychiatrist Dr Hassan Abdulla ritually mutilated 41 boys at a ‘non-sterile’ clinic in a terraced house in Leicester. Abdulla, according to this report, was not registered with the Care Quality...
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Florida judge: ‘Boy must be circumcised’
Earlier this month, an appeals court upheld a ruling allowing the father of a 4-year-old boy to circumcise his son against the wishes of his mother. And in a bizarre twist, the judge slapped a gagging...
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Florida judge forces boy’s circumcision
In a ruling that has angered anti-circumcision activists, Judge Jeffrey Gillen ‘bullied’ a jailed woman – Heather Hironimus, above – into agreeing to have her four-year-old son, Chase, ritually...
View Article‘Compromise’ proposed over FGM: a little ‘nick’ will suffice
There’s much discussion on social media of a piece in the Journal of Medical Ethics by Kavita Shah Arora and Allan J Jacobs that urges ‘compromise’ on the issue of female genital mutilation (FGM). Just...
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UK ‘intactivists’ plan protest against a ‘mutilation’ clinic
Anti-circumcision activists led by Mike Buchanan, above, are to mount a protest on March 22 outside one of the UK’s largest circumcision clinics. The protesters, according to this Luton Today report,...
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Court’s circumcision ruling welcomed by secular medic
Dr Antony Lempert , above, of the Secular Medical Forum, has welcomed a High Court judge’s ruling against a ‘controlling and violent’ Muslim who wanted his children circumcised. After Mrs Justice...
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In India, Muslim women who oppose FGM are called infidels
Before he tumbled off his perch in 2014, aged 102, Dr Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, above – leader of a Shia Muslim sect in India – made it abundantly clear that female genital mutilation was a...
View ArticleRabbi exposed for running a circumcision racket in Israel
Rabbi Eliyahu Asulin, of Hadera, above, is being paid thousands by students wanting to become official mohels (circumcisers) and are being sent unsupervised to mutilate Ethiopian and Somalian infants....
View ArticleDanish doctors take a stand against infant circumcision
While stopping short of calling for a total ban on circumcision, the Danish Medical Association (Lægeforeningen) said in a weekend statement that no boys under the age of 18 be circumcised in Denmark....
View ArticleRabbis appeased – and infant boys suffer the consequences
Several years ago Orthodox Jews in New York city kicked off when an attempt was made to regulate a ‘sacred’ ritual – metzitzah b’peh – that involved mohels (circumcisers) sucking the penises of...
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US doctor admits mutilating girls for religious reasons
Jumana Nagarwala, above, a Detroit-area Muslim doctor accused of mutilating the genitals of young girls, did so for religious reasons. Her attorney, Shannon Smith, acknowledged during a federal court...
View ArticleFGM practitioners in Michigan face harsh new penalties
Following the arrest last month of Muslim Dr Jumana Nagarwala, accused of mutilating girls for religious reasons, the Michigan Senate yesterday approved legislation making FGM a state felony. Doctors...
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Dagbladet’s anti-circumcision cartoon attacked by rabbi
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, has called on Norwegian authorities to take action against Dagbladet, a Norwegian paper that published an anti-circumcision...
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