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from WJD As the controversy over a German court ruling that banned circumcision continues, a powerful and active new movement against the ancient practice is spreading quickly across Europe.
An article published on Monday by the Jerusalem Post reports that the next battle over circumcision will likely
from WJD As the controversy over a German court ruling that banned circumcision continues, a powerful and active new movement against the ancient practice is spreading quickly across Europe.
An article published on Monday by the Jerusalem Post reports that the next battle over circumcision will likely
take place in the Scandinavian countries, especially Denmark and Norway.
The Danish case is remarkable in illustrating the political and sometimes psychological motivations behind the controversy.
The movement is led, ironically, by the far-Left, which is normally in favor of multiculturalism of all kinds, but has demanded a ban on circumcision - which it equates with female genital mutilation - since 2008.
Among advocates of the ban, the most influential may be Kjeld Koplev, "a prominent Jewish-born Christian journalist, who argued that his circumcision as an infant, and therefore against his will, was the equivalent of torture."
Morten Frisch, a medical doctor who is prominent in the movement has gone so far as to claim that "anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, etc." are "all ploys used by the Jews to silence a contentious debate."
"To me," he wrote, "it appears insulting to the sense of justice, that we live in a country which, because of fear of accusations of anti-Semitism, racism, Holocaust and imaginative threats about Jewish and Muslim mass exodus, lacks the political courage to change the law. That we in 2012 still accept that Danish boys must sacrifice a sexually precious body part, in order for parents to live up to their religious duties."
So brutal has the debate already become that "the practice of circumcision has been called 'barbaric,' an 'assault,' an 'attack,' 'amputation,' 'torture,' 'mutilation.'"
It is clear, moreover, that the effect of this demonization, whatever those who employ it may say about their motivations, will be of a profoundly antisemitic nature, and have a catastrophic effect on European Jewry.
"If there will a prohibition by law," says Denmark's chief rabbi, "Jews will not break this law. Instead, they will leave, and they won’t come back."
Seventy years after the Holocaust failed to wipe out Europe's Jews, laws enacted in the name of justice and courage may succeed in doing so, not by mass murder, but simply by making Jewish culture and religion impossible
The Danish case is remarkable in illustrating the political and sometimes psychological motivations behind the controversy.
The movement is led, ironically, by the far-Left, which is normally in favor of multiculturalism of all kinds, but has demanded a ban on circumcision - which it equates with female genital mutilation - since 2008.
Among advocates of the ban, the most influential may be Kjeld Koplev, "a prominent Jewish-born Christian journalist, who argued that his circumcision as an infant, and therefore against his will, was the equivalent of torture."
Morten Frisch, a medical doctor who is prominent in the movement has gone so far as to claim that "anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, etc." are "all ploys used by the Jews to silence a contentious debate."
"To me," he wrote, "it appears insulting to the sense of justice, that we live in a country which, because of fear of accusations of anti-Semitism, racism, Holocaust and imaginative threats about Jewish and Muslim mass exodus, lacks the political courage to change the law. That we in 2012 still accept that Danish boys must sacrifice a sexually precious body part, in order for parents to live up to their religious duties."
So brutal has the debate already become that "the practice of circumcision has been called 'barbaric,' an 'assault,' an 'attack,' 'amputation,' 'torture,' 'mutilation.'"
It is clear, moreover, that the effect of this demonization, whatever those who employ it may say about their motivations, will be of a profoundly antisemitic nature, and have a catastrophic effect on European Jewry.
"If there will a prohibition by law," says Denmark's chief rabbi, "Jews will not break this law. Instead, they will leave, and they won’t come back."
Seventy years after the Holocaust failed to wipe out Europe's Jews, laws enacted in the name of justice and courage may succeed in doing so, not by mass murder, but simply by making Jewish culture and religion impossible
