BERLIN, Germany — The circumcision of minors for religious reasons should be considered a physical assault, according a district court ruling in the German city of Cologne.
Judges said that the procedure should be performed only when it's medically necessary,the Financial Times Deutschland reported.
Otherwise, neither the parents' rights nor the right to religious freedom can justify what constitutes bodily harm, the verdict states.
The judgment stemmed from the case of a four-year-old Muslim boy, Agence France Presse reported, who was taken to hospital for bleeding two days after his parents had him circumcised.
However by handing down this ruling the German court has, either knowingly or unknowingly, made Judaism illegal.
According to the Abrahamic covenant and carried on through the law handed down to Moses, every male must be circumcised on the eighth day after he is born. Circumcision is the mark of the Abrahamic covenant God made with his people. In fact, if a young male fails to be circumcised on the eighth day he has "broken covenant" with God.
Genesis 17:10 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.Protesters said "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," said Ali Kizilkaya, a spokesman of the Council of the Coordination of Muslims in Germany which counts some 4 million members.
Genesis 17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
Genesis 17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting 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.
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 (negating the Jewish covenant with God and exposing an abundance of ignorance in the court).
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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