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Furor over Proposed Ban of Circumcision in Denmark
arutz 7 ^ | 11-20-08 | staff

Posted on 11/20/2008 2:40:30 PM PST by Nachum

(IsraelNN.com) Jews and Muslims in Denmark are in an uproar about a bill to ban circumcision for boys under the age of 15, according to Yediot Ahronot. The country's National Council for Children and Ethics Council have both endorsed the proposal and only the parliament's medical committee can prevent it from being heard.

The National Council for Children argued that, "Circumcision is the irreversible damage to a child's body before he is given the chance to object." It also said the ban was a matter of equality, in the wake of a five-year-old ban on female circumscion.

Denmark's Chief Rabbi Bent Lexner – who is also a certified mohel (circumciser) in the community – told Yediot Ahronot, "The comparison between circumcision and the intentional mutilation of the female sex organ in certain societies is simply complete nonsense." He added, "If the law forbidding circumcision is ever passed in Denmark, Jews will have to leave the place they have been living in for hundreds of years."

Judaism specifies circumcsion when a boy is eight days old, unless medically dictated otherwise. Islam does not specify a date, but allows it through puberty.


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KEYWORDS: ban; circumcision; denmark; islam
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1 posted on 11/20/2008 2:40:30 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

I am happy to have had a bris on the 8th day; would think it much more likely to be painful later.


2 posted on 11/20/2008 2:44:03 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware of Obama's Reichstag Fire; Don't permit him to seize emergency powers.)
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To: Nachum

All your kids must now belong to the State.


3 posted on 11/20/2008 2:48:09 PM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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To: MeanWestTexan

> I am happy to have had a bris on the 8th day; would think it much more likely to be painful later.

Likewise, and it is alot easier to keep sanitary.

I think the pain thing is probably the whole idea behind banning it until age 15: fewer circumcisions are likely to occur if it jolly hurts.

Here in New Zealand circumcision is an exception rather than the rule, and for some reason doctors try to talk parents out of having their infant boys circumcised.


4 posted on 11/20/2008 2:49:51 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Nachum

I would encourage a compromise here. Why not practice circumcision with pinking shears. Pinking shears will remove a substantial amount of the prepuce, thereby lessening the propensity to disease while, at the same time, leaving enough of the prepuce to serve as ornamentation. I believe that it would be very attractive and could very well serve to stimulate conversation, e.g., “Mine is frillier than yours.”


5 posted on 11/20/2008 2:50:07 PM PST by davisfh ( Islam is a very serious mental illness)
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To: Nachum

Male circumcision is not something any government should be involved in.


6 posted on 11/20/2008 2:50:58 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life ;o)
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To: Nachum

What next?

The suicide of western civilization continues.


7 posted on 11/20/2008 2:51:30 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

For some reason is right. On the whole, it’s healthier to be circumcized than not. I would say that the positives outweigh the negatives.


8 posted on 11/20/2008 2:53:05 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Nachum

So the same people that worry about painful circumcisions think it’s just find to yank babies from their mothers’ wombs. No pain there. Yeah, right.


9 posted on 11/20/2008 2:53:22 PM PST by madison10
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To: Nachum
When my son was born in Denmark we did not have him circumcised. The Danish medical system is so unfamiliar with the procedure that I concluded it would be unduly risky and not necessary (my son's grandmother (my mother) was initially horrified but she got over it).

I heard from a fellow American ex-pat how they handled his son's circumcision, and I decided it just was not worth it.

That said, th Danish obsession with equality is going too far. There should at least be an exception for religious reasons (Jews).

BTW, having lived in Denmark, I would guess the idea is more along the lines of some boys should not look different (circumscised), rather than the idea of banning female circumcision means males must be banned as well. The Danes are very big on the idea that no one should stand out.

10 posted on 11/20/2008 2:55:41 PM PST by Martin Tell (Happily lurking in one location for over ten years)
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To: Nachum

Not good enough for the state to be Mommy and Daddy, now they have to be the mohel as well?


11 posted on 11/20/2008 2:56:49 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Martin Tell
The Danes are very big on the idea that no one should stand out.

I could but I won't.

12 posted on 11/20/2008 2:58:11 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Nachum
It probably won't be that many years until circumcision is rarely performed anyhow. I haven't seen numbers recently but 4 or 5 years ago the majority of males (at least over 50%) were not being circumcised at birth. 50 years ago the number having it done was over 90%.

Studies have shown that the unnecessary removal of part of natures design desensitizes the male organ and deminishes sexual pleasure.

13 posted on 11/20/2008 3:02:00 PM PST by TruthWillWin
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To: TruthWillWin

It’s a convenant with God, if one is Jewish. It doesn’t matter how it looks.


14 posted on 11/20/2008 3:04:35 PM PST by sdillard
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To: ari-freedom
All your kids must now belong to the State.

We already don't allow female circumcision.

15 posted on 11/20/2008 3:07:02 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Nachum

Oh no, that doesn’t even seem humane.


16 posted on 11/20/2008 3:14:08 PM PST by wastedyears (Every FReeper is on Obama's Black List. He will try to have us all "taken care of." Mark my words)
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To: davisfh

The phrase Frilly Dilly comes to mind...


17 posted on 11/20/2008 3:24:00 PM PST by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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To: Nachum

My first child was born in the UK under ‘National Health Care’. He was not circumcised....as I was told it is not currently performed there. We couldn’t afford to go ‘privately’ to have it done at the time.


18 posted on 11/20/2008 3:26:22 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Cicero
The suicide of western civilization continues

Actually, secular circumcision is rare in Western civilization, practiced only in North America. In Europe only Muslims and Jews undergo the procedure.

19 posted on 11/20/2008 3:29:49 PM PST by Procyon (To the global warming fanatics the problem is too many people and the solution is genocide.)
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To: davisfh
“Mine is frillier than yours.”

Kind of a proprietary Danish French tickler...?

20 posted on 11/20/2008 3:32:13 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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