If you wanted to “cleanse” your country of Jews and Muslims, you couldn’t do better than criminalising or banning circumcision.
Well, that’s the way it is going in Europe. First Germany. Now an Austrian state:
The governor of Vorarlberg, the westernmost federal state in Austria, has told hospitals in the province to suspend religious circumcisions until the legal situation is clarified.
Markus Wallner’s instruction came in the wake of a German regional court ruling last month that the practice amounted to causing criminal bodily harm. The judge reached the verdict in the case of a young Muslim boy who suffered medical complications following a ritual circumcision.
Mr Wallner referred to his own instruction to Vorarlberg doctors as “precedence-setting judgement”.
The move will not affect religious circumcisions performed outside Vorarlberg. Muslims will be most affected by the decision, since they make up 8.4 per cent of the province’s population.
Austria and Germany succeeded in killing most of their Jews a few decades back. So it is good that they’re attempting less murderous methods this time, I suppose.
