Revealing Article on Religious Israeli Newspaper
August 25, 2009 Circumcision, Israel
The article, “Circumcision: Once Banned for Jews, Now Proposed for Gentiles,” is sloppy and meandering. And yet, it is revealing in terms of how Jews conflate religious bias towards circumcision with health issues.
The expected self-congratulatory tone is salient, overriding.
Non-Jewish rulers over the centuries have tried to stop Jews from religious circumcision. Now they are encouraging the procedure for themselves. U.S. public health officials said this week it is considering encouraging circumcision to help strop the spread of the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
The errors are striking.
Many public health officials believe that performing circumcision on baby boys might lower their risk to the virus in later years. Opponents claim that the surgery is performed without the baby’s consent.
This is not a “claim.” This is a fact.
Circumcision has become accepted in Western [sic] society
No. Circumcision has fallen out of acceptance in all other Western nations.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, which has said that routine circumcision “is not essential to the child’s current well-being,” is revising its guidelines towards encouraging the practice, which Jews have performed for 3,500 years.
Aren’t we so wonderful. We have been cutting babies for 3,500 years.
In Uganda, health officials last year recommended that soldiers be circumcised in order to prevent the spread of AIDS, a policy that would represent a complete turnaround from the times that countries prohibited Jews from being circumcised.
It is only a complete turnaround to the extent that nations are making genital cutting mandatory. Keep gloating, frummie.
The ancient Roman emperor Hadrian banned circumcision, a move that may have prompted the Jewish revolt under the guidance of Bar Kokhba.
How is this relevant? Because it is all about how we rock, and everyone is following our circular reasoning. Why should everyone practice male circumcision? Because we practice male circumcision. God said so. End of story. So everyone should cut their male babies.
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The substance and tone of the article are indeed deplorably self-pitying.
The African clinical trials have been very badly misinterpreted. I am not totally opposed to circumcising African men at risk of AIDS. I am totally opposed to concluding from the African trials that circ has much to do with STDs in western countries. Village Africa has little in common with the North Atlantic. Circumcision did not prevent the American AIDS holocaust, which killed more than 250,000 American gay men since 1980.
The CDC may given American routine circ another 30-40 year respite. Sometime around 2050, someone will collect the data to show that Europe and Japan and Australasia are not clearly worse off than the USA, despite having no circ.
23 centuries ago, some Greek soldiers and bureaucrats tried to ban bris. That led to an Afghan style uprising which the Greeks lost. The Romans also thought that Jewish bris was sexually weird, and Hadrian indeed had a go at banning it. These things soon passed; the Covenant is much tougher than your run of the mill petty tyrant. Over the past 2000 years, what Jews did indoors behind drawn curtains was almost always ignored. There were no opportunities for gentile eyes to alight on Jewish privates. When sports became popular, Jews founded YMHAs to they could do sports apart from gentiles. Public schools were a sticking point, but thanks to Hitler, most Jews found themselves either in a Jewish country, Israel, or living among English speaking people who, mirabile visu, had adopted infant circumcision! Then intactivism sprang up around 1980 (a Jewish atheist wrote the first intactivist book). Jews are at risk of being made to feel sexually weird. Sadly, it looks like some are fighting back in a regrettable way.
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