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Circumcision Ban may Become ‘Laughing Stock’ |
18 July 2012German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Germany could become a laughing stock if it fails to turn over a district court ban on circumcision.
“I do not want Germany to be the only country in the world where Jews and Muslims cannot practice their rituals or else we will become a laughing stock” Merkel said. Merkel’s government has already criticized the Cologne court ruling and promised a new law to protect the right to circumcise Jews and Muslim male infants. Joerg van Essen, parliamentary floor leader of Merkel’s junior coalition partner the Free Democrats, told the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper that the new law would be introduced in the autumn.
The Cologne court, ruling in the case of a Muslim boy who suffered bleeding after circumcision, said the practice inflicts bodily harm and should not be carried out on young boys. |
18 July 2012
Hurriyet Daily News
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