It is worse than you think. German anti-Semitism is again quite strong and claerly rising. They have gone off the rails with this one. Some additions:Germany’s Child Protection Society (Kinderhilfe) denounced the ritual as “a blank check for religiously motivated child abuse.” The head of the German Academy for Pediatric Medicine, Wolfram Hartmann, warned on July 17, that circumcision causes “lifelong bodily and above spiritual [sic] injury.” Six-hundred German physicians and lawyers signed an open letter to Merkel published July 21, proclaiming that “religious freedom cannot be a charter for violence,” and asserting that circumcision violates the “right of children to bodily integrity and sexual self-determination.”Etc, etc.
It is worse than you think. German anti-Semitism is again quite strong and claerly rising. They have gone off the rails with this one. Some additions:Germany’s Child Protection Society (Kinderhilfe) denounced the ritual as “a blank check for religiously motivated child abuse.” The head of the German Academy for Pediatric Medicine, Wolfram Hartmann, warned on July 17, that circumcision causes “lifelong bodily and above spiritual [sic] injury.” Six-hundred German physicians and lawyers signed an open letter to Merkel published July 21, proclaiming that “religious freedom cannot be a charter for violence,” and asserting that circumcision violates the “right of children to bodily integrity and sexual self-determination.”Etc, etc.