Posted on 08/08/2012 3:52:25 PM PDT by SJackson
Ombudsman for children's rights proposes that Jews and Muslims replace male circumcision with a symbolic, nonsurgical ritual.
THE HAGUE - Norway’s ombudsman for children's rights has proposed that Jews and Muslim replace male circumcision with a symbolic, nonsurgical ritual.
Dr. Anne Lindboe told the newspaper Vart Land last month that circumcision in boys was a violation of a person’s right to decide over his own body. “Muslim and Jewish children are entitled to the same protection as all other children,“ she said. She added that the practice caused unnecessary pain and was medically unbeneficial.
Lindboe, a pediatrician, was appointed ombudsman in June. Her predecessor, Reidar Hjermann, proposed setting 15 as the minimum age for circumcision. According to Jewish religious law, Jewish babies must be circumcised when they are eight days old.
The children’s ombudsman is an independent governmental institution entrusted with safeguarding the rights of minors.
Ervin Kohn, president of The Jewish Community of Oslo, said that Norwegian Jews “will not be able to live in a society where circumcision is forbidden.” He noted that the mandate of Norway’s children’s ombudsman did not extend to devising Jewish rituals. Norway has a Jewish community of about 700.
In June, a spokesperson for Norway’s Center Party, which has 11 out of 169 seats in parliament, proposed a ban on circumcision in babies.
Do you advise your uncircumcised friends (that you know of) to have it done? What are the benefits they would experience?
Too much creamed herring has rotted their minds.
“As a woman, I am of course speaking for myself, and my experience is by definition more informed than yours (assuming that you are heterosexual).”
Hey, let me hip you here sweetie. When you are having sex, there’s this whole other person there too. Like, a thinking, intelligent, fully sentient being! And they even have an experience too, one -just- as informative as yours! LOL
I am not circumsized and wish I was.
At 70 when shrinkage sets in there is waaaay too much skin hanging over. It’s like a spray nozzle., makes a helluva mess.
I don’t advise anyone anything about what to do with their penises, as it’s none of my business.
Can you describe the benefits that make you glad?
I’m not circumcised, and I’m very glad I’m not.
Circumcision is child abuse, and kids should be allowed to sue their parents and whoever mutilated them.
If when the child grows up they want to be circumcised, then it’s their own decision.
I know all about it. I just want the OP to back up his boast.
You miss the point completely. You know only what it feels like to be circumcised. I know what it feels like to be with someone circumcised and circumcised. The difference is significant. You have no idea what the experience is like with an unmutilated organ.
Ban circumcision? They will have to kill me first.
“If when the child grows up they want to be circumcised, then it’s their own decision.”
No, it is G-d’s decision that Jewish babies are to be circumcised at 8 days old.
A little unkind to the janitors, although I understand the “symbolic” intent.
Abortion.
That actually kills babies but it’s OK in Norway because it doesn’t target the Jews.
But what about a person’s right to decide over his own body? What about procedures that cause pain and are medically unnecessary? I’m, like, totally adrift in a sea of leftist antisemitic cognitive dissonance!
That's simply her opinion, and you simply share her opinion.
-——Genesis 17:9-10 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.-——
Not circumcising your male Jewish child breaks the bond of the covenant...
-——Genesis 17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
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