Posted on 06/07/2011 8:18:39 AM PDT by SmithL
An Internet comic featuring a blond Foreskin Man battling an evil Monster Mohel intent on circumcising a baby has angered local Jewish leaders who say it is anti-Semitic.
Matthew Hess, the man behind both the comic and a ballot measure to ban circumcision in San Francisco, says he knows the loaded imagery behind his campaign has ruffled a few feathers.
But that's kind of the point, he said.
"Any character who circumcises children is not going to be drawn favorably," he said. "I think what's being done to young boys right now is a serious crime. The fact that it has been done for thousands of years doesn't excuse it."
Hess and his associates have pushed a measure onto San Francisco's November ballot that would make circumcising anyone under 18 within city limits a misdemeanor punishable by a $1,000 fine, even if it's done for religious reasons.
While the proposed ban concerns many local Jewish and Muslim leaders - removing a baby's foreskin is a tenet of both faiths - they say it would never pass constitutional muster.
What really worries them is the way Jews are depicted in campaign materials designed to attract attention to the circumcision question.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Jews are intelligent and powerful. But, they are not satisfied to just kill themselves.
Intelligent, genius. They are more powerful in their stupidity. Because, when they screw up, when they go bad. The world pays the price.
Hey, howabout we hop in your Prius and get some Tofu and a Latte? (maybe a bowl of dirt and some ‘natural’ grass and leaves and stuff?)
Give me a break, man....please
If you really want to become ill see the photos that Zombie has posted of some gay pride day in SF - they are beyond dreadful. The Health Dept. should step in and shut down the entire city.
Cutting comment ... with out justification.
Typical liberal comment, so You might be liberal or just racist. Which?
Circumcion is not a condition for converting to Islam or carrying out religious duties. The Qur'an does not order Muslims to perform circumcision of infants like the old testament orders Jews. Passing a law banning circumcision wouldn't discrimination against Islamic religious laws, only Jewish religious laws.
good point!
and stickandpucknut is right about Muslims.
i wonder if S.F. has a law against F.G.M. ...?
ACLU? Maybe? No Jews there...(of course not)
Democrats...Soros..No, no Jews there.
Yes, it stands out big-time :/
No worries though.. it tells us all where he stands... the wuss he is..
If it has anything to do with the pics I saw about a year ago... I don’t want to see the pics (was some street of some fag celebration.. I even remember one of the fags wearing a Tech Sgt. uniform while speaking.. that pissed me off more than most of the other pics :/
NONE of this should even be seen by any child >.< yet, I remember in the pics that there were children of the fags there with them ... talk about sick:/
yes, you are correct in your knowledge of the “Holy” Quran.
...but what about “female circumcision”?
in Egypt, the U.N.’s own report says over 80% have had F.G.M. performed.
does the S.F. law only apply to males?
Female circumcision is already illegal throughout the United States, per federal law:
Section 116 - Female genital mutilation
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whoever knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of another person who has not attained the age of 18 years shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) A surgical operation is not a violation of this section if the operation is—
(1) necessary to the health of the person on whom it is performed, and is performed by a person licensed in the place of its performance as a medical practitioner; or
(2) performed on a person in labor or who has just given birth and is performed for medical purposes connected with that labor or birth by a person licensed in the place it is performed as a medical practitioner, midwife, or person in training to become such a practitioner or midwife.
(c) In applying subsection (b)(1), no account shall be taken of the effect on the person on whom the operation is to be performed of any belief on the part of that person, or any other person, that the operation is required as a matter of custom or ritual.
(Added Pub. L. 104-208, div. C, title VI, Sec. 645(b)(1), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009-709.)
Effective Date
Section 645(c) of div. C of Pub. L. 104-208 provided that: ``The amendments made by subsection (b) [enacting this section] shall take effect on the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Sept. 30, 1996].’’
California was where the first charges under the law were made in late 2003 when a California couples was arrested in a FBI sting operation after having agreed to perform the procedure on two fictitious girls. Female circumcision has also been banned by state law in California, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, and Tennessee, and other states. To ban it citywide in San Fran would be redundant bureaucracy considering its already banned at both the federal and state levels.
Yup and the Health Department - and the police - should have raided the event and arrested all the perverts.
didn’t know that, and glad to see it. thank you.
That’s the part that is so incredibly ironic. This city is so Anti-Semitic, yet plenty of Jews are willing to support liberal policy, it doesn’t make sense politics-wise, does it?
Biggest part is, the whole thing is contradictory. A sex-change operation plus hormone therapy is far more extensive of a procedure than circumcision of a male infant, but then again, I guess it is about time for the devout Jews, and the devout monotheists in general, to realize that there are some people out there, who are supposedly “liberal” but not really all that much your friend at the same time.
Yes you have. Your service has been noted. THank You!
Now please, down to your knees
The big thing is that they suggest get rid of circumcision, but I would be willing to bet plenty of them would demand that we fully support a sex-change operation? Which is worse? I would say the sex change operation, because I am not being forced to accept circumcision on a regular basis, nor do I really care, but I do have a problem with the fact that there is so much demand that we practically nanny up to people who have their genitals cut off altogether and take hormone supplements to convince us that they are something that they truly weren’t naturally.
I hear that Saul Alinsky is Amish.
Heck, Julius Streicher would think it was anti-Semetic
I just assume the author is an a**hat. (Author of the comic, not you, original poster.)
I'm thinking a**hat does not cover it. Did you catch this little gem from the article?
"Monster Mohel was drawn based on a real photograph," Hess said. "There's a little bit of real people in all of them."
Hess said he sees a little bit of himself in Foreskin Man, noting that they both are of German ancestry and have light-colored hair.
"I think (critics) are certainly reading too much into it if you think I am anti-Semitic," he added.
Wow. If he didn't think that he was coming across as anti-Semitic before, he just dug his hole a lot deeper. Arian supremism anyone?
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