Posted on 08/22/2012 11:32:32 AM PDT by Jewbacca
A German rabbi has been criminally charged for performing a circumcision, committing what the indictment calls "bodily harm," media outlets reported on Tuesday. The charges against David Goldberg, who is a mohel and the Rabbi of the city of Hof Saale in Bavaria, is the first known case following the anti-circumcision ruling issued by a German court in May.According to media reports, the charges were filed by a physician from the city of Hessen, and was based on the court ruling which stated that performing a religious circumcision ritual can be considered a crime. A Bavarian radio station reported that the doctor was among the signatories of a letter sent to Angela Merkel, which claimed that "religion should not be allowed to permit harming of the helpless."
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Are the Krauts exempting imams from persecution when they circumcise?
maybe they should warn the public about this dangerous man and those like him
Maybe they could, oh I dunno.. make them where a gold star on their clothing
Hey, why not? It’s been done before
“maybe they should warn the public about this dangerous man and those like him. Maybe they could, oh I dunno.. make them where a gold star on their clothing.”
Undoubtedly the next step.
Gee...Germans persecuting a Jew for being Jewish. How do you say “deja vu” in German?
Yep, the first law the Nazis passed was banning the Kosher slaughter of animals.
Hey, why not? Its been done before"
They've probably still got some in storage somewhere ...
“Are the Krauts exempting imams from persecution when they circumcise?”
Allegedly, no. In practice? Doubtful.
Good old San Fransisco, U.S.A. is outpacing the Germans in antisemitism now-a-days.

Julius Streicher lives.
It’s hard to draw a line between circumcision and moslum mutilations.
“just sayin’”
The link between queers and the new anti-circumcision forces is strong.
Queers aligning themselves with anti-semites is logical, if one believes a primary motiviting factor in both behaviors is a hatred of G-d.
I used to not believe that, but I am increasingly thinking it is so.
Here we go, folks.
It’s a YELLOW STAR, not gold star.
Gold stars are worn by generals of the Army and police chiefs.
The word is about
There’s something evolving
Whatever may come
The world keeps revolving
They say the next big thing is here
That the revolution’s near
But to me, it seems quite clear
That’s it’s all just a little bit of history repeating
Seems to me that this line of reasoning could be used as an excuse to criminalize a number of religious practices and ideas.
“Its hard to draw a line between circumcision and moslum mutilations.”
By “moslum mutilations” do you mean the removal of the clitorus and labia of young girls so that they cannot achieve orgasm that muslims use to further degrade and control women?
Only a retard could not see the distinction.
I used to not believe that, but I am increasingly thinking it is so.
Oh, goodness gracious. What did you used to believe . . . that queers hate G-d and anti-Semites love Him too much?
At least the political spectrum is beginning to make sense now.
There is a huge push by western doctors and health organizations in Africa to get as many men circumcised as possible to reduce the spread of Aids.
I guess what is legal and what is illegal depends on geography, and can differ by 180 degrees.
“... could not see the distinction”.
I agree. Apples and oranges. I don’t know how someone could compare the two.
Outrageous.
The Jewish community in Germany, or what’s left of it, need simply respond: “Great, soon all of the German Jews will be behind bars — again.”
I’ll bet the cowards beat a hasty retreat!
Seems to me that this line of reasoning could be used as an excuse to criminalize a number of religious practices and ideas.
Yet I bet the same doctor has no problem performing an abortion...
Your definitions of circumcision and mutilation, fine, only an idiot, blah blah.
Now, without equivocation, what is the distinction? Some circumcisions are performed with the teeth. Some moslum ‘mutilations’ only involve the removal of the foreskin of the clitoris. Definitions are blurry. Please, give us an exact distinction between good jewish circumcision, and evil moslum circumcision.
Bablefish made a mess of your post.
Can you try again in the original German?
My prayers and sympathy.
Because an intact foreskin facilitates insertion into tight non-lubricated orifices.
Or so I'm told.
It’s unsurprising.
“Here we go, folks.”
It’s days like this I am happy I live high in the mountains about 500 miles from any town of consequence.
HAAAHAHAHA!!
Oh, goodness gracious. What did you used to believe . . . that queers hate G-d and anti-Semites love Him too much? At least the political spectrum is beginning to make sense now.”
JB: as much as I like you, I have to go with ZC on this one.
On one side, you have the culture-of-death who hates God and does things like have dangerous gay sex, kill babies, and persecute Jews. Been that way since the pagans sacrificed babies to Baal.
On the other side, you have those who love life and love God.
For a smart guy, you’re slow on the uptake.
So how long until Kristallnacht II?
“Can you try again in the original German?”
Way to make friends.
I’m a circumcised “WASP” American. My ancestors kicked german butt to get your ancestor’s butts out of the fire.
If you’re done with the insults, can you please just explain to us how we can distinguish between jewish and moslum genital modifications? Something that would hold up in court perhaps? I think we’d all like to stop some of that moslum stuff, but we have to have unequivocal definitions.
Are you able? Or are you just going to spit more insults?
If it's believed that this represents anti semitism then one can look at certain traditions that other religions might have.I can't think of any that Christianity has....moslems,perhaps? I don't know.I'm not well schooled on the traditions followed by other religions.
I've donned my asbestos suit so have at it if you all must!
“Never Again’’ is beginning again. What next, no Jews allowed to be civil servants?
TMI
How can you distinguish? Easy...Jews don’t “circumcise” girls.
(I put that in quotes because “circumcising a girl” is like “plucking a fish”.)
“My ancestors kicked german butt to get your ancestors butts out of the fire.”
Which ancestors? The Scott, German, Irish, or Apache?
Seriously, go try Stormfront or DU. Either will be more to you liking.
"religion should not be allowed to permit harming of the helpless."
Seems to me that this line of reasoning could be used as an excuse to criminalize a number of religious practices and ideas.
That's the whole point. Religion has been redefined as an endlessly malleable and evolving ethno-cultural appendage with no connection to objective truth. Objective truth has been assigned to "secular morality" (which is based on what . . . ? "Science?" . . . Personal hang-ups?) which now sits in judgment on all religions, religious claims, and religious authorities. This notion of a common non-sectarian standard apart from G-d is the opening that let the camel's nose into the tent, and it's not the creation of modern liberals but of people like Locke and Jefferson. In other words, the source of today's anti-religious mania is part of the ideology of America itself.
The current acceleration of the process is fraught with irony. Internationally, the western world (the moslem world is unaffected) has adopted this non-sectarian secular morality largely in the name of atoning for Jewish suffering. The people whose mission is to teach the world about G-d wound up teaching the world about Voltaire (an anti-Semite himself, btw). Does mormonism teach the proxy baptism of deceased people? Well, we can't allow people to "use" religion in this way, so the referee of secular morality steps in and forbids it. Does Fundamentalist Protestantism require its members to try their best to convert every single person they meet to their version of chrstianity? Well, our current multi-cultural society won't allow people to "use" religion to make other people feel bad, so the supreme arbiter of non-existent "secular morality" steps in again. And so the Jews become associated with secularism and G-d becomes associated with the host gentile nation--the exact opposite of how things are supposed to be.
Domestically, the launching pad of the current situation was the Ku-Kluckers and segregationists claiming that the Bible taught white supremacy (just where has never been mentioned). So, since "religion" teaches Black inferiority (a point conceded rather than contested by anti-religious liberals), "secular morality" became the great Supreme Arbiter of domestic American justice. Since G-d teaches white supremacy (again, no verses are ever quoted), then G-d is a big redneck meanie and either "science" or emotional hang-ups rush in to condemn Him. Now the same referee is ready to step in any time G-d is "mean" by putting down gay people or commanding the circumcision of male children.
The supreme irony in this is that two historically fundamentalist communities, Orthodox Jews and Black Protestants, have been used as the excuses for secularization. The religious practices/behavior of each group, no matter how Theonomic, are declared quaint specimens of cultural "otherness" that must be protected in the name of diversity rather than recognized as the simple expressions of religiosity which they are. And so Jews allow G-d to tell them how to tie their shoes and Blacks worship like backwoods right wing hillbilly snake-handlers while liberals look on admiringly and conservatives boo and hiss these "villains."
Is it beginning to make sense now?
Jews have always lived precariously in exile and a certain amount of caution has always been necessary when dealing with the host nation's rulers. However, the glee and lack of any deep thought with which even Orthodox Jews bought into the "supreme secular morality" meme (especially considering its diametrical opposition to universal Noachide morality) as a protection from chrstian anti-Semites has been absolutely heartbreaking. How many people actually believe now that Yehoshua` Bin Nun built a "museum of tolerance" in Jericho?
It was inevitable that this "secular morality" would eventually come to bite the source of everything opposed to it: Judaism. So now religion may not be "used" to "mutilate" eight day old babies who according to secular humanism aren't even people anyway. And how are Jewish organizations responding? By the same tired old cries of "otherness," "pluralism," "multiculturalism," "tolerance," "bigotry," and invocations of "secular morality" (in the form of the UN Universal Declaration of Rights).
Everyone except the Jews is speaking in the Name of G-d. Everyone except the Jews is practicing mystical nationalism. They're all imitating Biblical Israel and the imitations are all false and will all fail.
Everyone wants to be Israel except for Israel. Isn't it about time this changed?
(You're sorry? Imagine how I feel for knowing the answer!)
I figured there was some gay sex reason.
Pretty much anything relating to that lifestyle is TMI.
I guess I’m unclear on something...does the law in question prohibit circumcision (or prohibit it under a certain age) or does it just require that it be performed by a licensed physician?
now they live precariously the the land that G-D HIMSELF gave them.
I would think gay guys would prefer circumcised d**ks...I think the poster trying to relate anti circumcision laws with gays was stretching it to say the least.
What would happen if every Jew said “We’ll consider stopping circumcision AFTER you stop abortions.”?
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