Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: German court bans male circumcision, sparks outrage among Jews, Muslims

Una decisione insensata. Si tratta di una pratica che non determina 
alcun problema, salvo ove il medico commetta degli errori; quelli 
andrebbero (e sono già comunque) puniti, non la pratica in sé.
 
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German court bans male circumcision, sparks outrage among Jews, Muslims
 
By 
msnbc.com
 and news services
BERLIN - Jewish and Muslim groups protested on Wednesday after a German 
court banned the circumcision of young boys for religious reasons, 
Reuters reported. The ban applies to the Cologne region of Germany.
 
The court in the western city of Cologne handed down the decision on 
Tuesday in the case of a doctor who was prosecuted for circumcising a 
four-year-old Muslim boy.
The doctor circumcised the boy in November 2010 and gave him four 
stitches, the Guardian reported. When the boy started bleeding two days 
later, his parents took him to Cologne's University hospital, where 
officials called police. The doctor was ultimately acquitted on the 
grounds that he had not broken a law.
 
The court ruled that involuntary religious circumcision should be made 
illegal because it could inflict serious bodily harm on people who had 
not consented to it. Male circumcision is part of Jewish and Muslim 
religious tradition.
 
The ruling said boys who consciously decided to be circumcised could 
have the operation. No age restriction was given, or any more specific 
details.
 
The Central Council of Jews in Germany called the ruling an 
"unprecedented and dramatic intrusion" of the right to religious freedom 
and an "outrageous and insensitive" act.
 
"Circumcision for young boys is a solid component of the Jewish religion 
and has been practiced worldwide for millennia. This religious right is 
respected in every country around the world," President Dieter Graumann 
said in a statement.
 
Fewer than 20 percent of boys are circumcised in Germany; by contrast, 
56 percent of male newborns in the United States were circumcised in 
2005, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
In the U.S., circumcision rates vary by region. In the West, fewer than 
one-third of newborn boys are circumcised; in the Northeast, nearly 
two-thirds of newborn boys are circumcised.
 
Parents who choose to circumcise their boys have said they did so 
because they believe it improves hygiene and can reduce the risk of the 
spread of disease, HIV in particular.
 
"Fatal to the freedom of religion"
 
According to the court ruling, "the fundamental right of the child to 
bodily integrity outweighs the fundamental rights of the parents."
But the Central Council of Muslims in Germany called the sentence a 
"blatant and inadmissible interference" in the rights of parents.
Rabbi Aryeh Goldberg called the ruling “fatal to the freedom of 
religion,” the Guardian reported. He told Haaretz that it went against 
the European Union’s convention on human rights.
 
"The child's body is permanently and irreparably changed by the 
circumcision. This change runs counter to the interests of the child, 
who can decide his religious affiliation himself later in life," it said.
 
Germany is home to about four million Muslims and 120,000 Jews. In 
Judaism, 8-day-old boys are circumcised to recall the covenant 
established between God and the Hebrew patriarch Abraham.
The time for Muslim circumcision varies according to family, region and 
country.
 
Concerned the ruling could be followed in other parts of the country and 
that it could prevent doctors carrying out circumcisions for fear of 
prosecution, the Central Council of Jews urged the German parliament "to 
provide legal clarity in order to prevent attacks on religious freedom."
 
Reuters and 
msnbc.com
's Isolde Raftery contributed to this story.
-- 
Namib
 
Chacun appelle "idées claires" celles qui sont au même degré de 
confusion que les siennes propres (M. Proust)
 

 Una decisione insensata.
 
quanto la tua memoria...


Rinfrescamela (mi càpita di dire cazzate; a te no? :). Ora la penso 
comunque così (e sono personalmente circonciso, quamquam non per ragioni 
religiose).
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 Rinfrescamela
 
se ne è parlato almeno un mese fa...

 se ne � parlato almeno un mese fa...
 
Non vuoi porger oasi all'afa? Qual � il problema?
-- 
Namib
 
Chacun appelle "id�es claires" celles qui sont au m�me degr� de 


 Non vuoi porger oasi all'afa?
 
proprio perchè c'è l'afa, le ricerchine te le fai per i cazzi tuoi.
Del resto la data in cui cercare è ben chiara all'inizio del tuo
articolo, non dovrebbe essere difficile...