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June 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Prosecutors appealed against the decision but the doctor was again acquitted,
this time owing to the imprecise nature of the law.
The Cologne ruling is not binding but legal experts said it appeared to
clarify a grey area in the law and will guide doctors in the future.
“The court has, unlike many politicians, not been deterred by the fear of
being criticised as anti-Semitic or antireligious,” Holm Putzke, an
expert in criminal law from Passau University, told the Financial Times of
Germany.
“The ruling is very important because for the first time physicians have
legal certainty.”
But Jewish and Muslim groups were quick to go on the offensive against the
court’s decision.
“This ruling is an outrageous and insensitive measure,” said Dieter
Graumann, head of the Central Committee of Jews. “Circumcision of
newborn boys is a fixed part of the Jewish religion and has been practised
worldwide for centuries. This religious right is respected in every country
in the world.”
He added that it was “an unprecedented and dramatic intervention in the
right of religious communities to self-determination.”
The committee also called on the German parliament to protect the “freedom
of religion”.
Jewish groups were supported by leaders of Germany’s large Muslim population “I
feel the decision is discriminatory and counters efforts to promote
integration,” said Ali Demir, chairman of the Islamic Religious
Community in Germany. “This is a harmless procedure that has thousands
of years of tradition and a high symbolic value.
“We will end up with circumcision tourism to neighbouring countries,”
he added.
Aiman Mayzek, chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, said: “Religious
freedom is very important in our constitution and cannot become the pawn of
a one-dimensional ruling that also further strengthens existing prejudices
and clichés about this issue.”
The World Health Organisation has estimated that nearly one in three males
under 15 is circumcised.
Thousands of young German boys, mainly from the country’s Jewish and Muslim
communities, are circumcised each year. The country has around four million
Muslims and 105,000 Jews, and a 2007 study found that 10.9 per cent of males
aged between 0 and 17 had been circumcised.
While equating ritual circumcision with grievous bodily harm the Cologne court
said that practice is acceptable on medical grounds.
Although rare in Europe, circumcision is common in the United States. Around
55 per cent of males undergo the operation in America, mainly for reasons of
hygiene.
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