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Muslims, Christians slam German
court ruling on circumcision
Sunday July 01, 2012 11:00:25 AM,
Agencies
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Berlin:
A key German Muslim association and top Christian clerics on June
27 sharply criticised a German Court ruling that said circumcising
boys on religious grounds amounted to grievous bodily harm.
"The Cologne ruling is a serious attack on religious freedom," the
Council of the Coordination of Muslims in Germany said in a
statement on the June 26 judgment.
"The ruling does not take everything into account, religious
practice concerning circumcision of young Muslims and Jews has
been carried out over the millenia on a global level," news agency
AFP quoted Ali Kizilkaya, a spokesman of the council which counts some 4 million
members.
The group said that Germany was "criminalising" Islamic and Jewish
customs with that ruling.
The regional court in Cologne, western Germany, ruled that the
"fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighed the
fundamental rights of the parents."
"The religious freedom of the parents and their right to educate
their child would not be unacceptably compromised, if they were
obliged to wait until the child could himself decide to be
circumcised," the court added.
The case was brought against a doctor in Cologne who had
circumcised a four-year-old Muslim boy on his parents' wishes.
Top Christian clerics also voiced opposition.
The Roman Catholic archbishop of Aachen Heinrich Mussinghoff said
the ruling was "very surprising", as the contradiction between
"basic rights on freedom of religion and the well-being of the
child brought up by the judges is not convincing in this very
case."
The head of the Protestant Church in Germany, Hans Ulrich Anke,
said the ruling should be appealed as it did not "sufficiently"
take into account the religious significance of the rite.
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