Historical Complications of Circumcision
Michael
The United Nations, through the U.N. non-governmental organization "The National
Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers" (NOCIRC,
http://nocirc.org/ ), has acknowledged that male infant circumcision is, in
fact, a form of child abuse ( http://www.nocirc.org/legal/ ). Furthermore,
NOCIRC currently presents information that male infant circumcision is clearly
in violation ( http://www.nocirc.org/legal/smith.html ) of the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child (
http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/UN-convention/ ) AND the United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (
http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/UN-human/ ). Thus, the United Nations had
acknowledged that circumcision is simply another form of child abuse.
In the United States and Canada, female infant genital mutilation has been made
a felony crime, and because of this precedent, students of international law can
also assert that male infant genital mutilation is also a felony crime, though
not engrossed in national statute law at this time. Because of all of the above,
and more, some people are now claiming that despite the present failure to
consider baby boys in recent legislation outlawing female genital mutilation,
the precedent has been set, the crime has been acknowledged, the punishment has
been established, and involuntary genital mutilation of male humans under the
age of 18 should also be classified as a felony by nature which, in the future,
should become prosecutable, and even if it is not, will now be understood by
thinking people for the crime that it is.
Furthermore, while circumcision rates in the United States in the decade of the
90's were reduced to a still-high 60%, the worldwide rate outside of the U.S. is
only 20%, so it can be asserted with certainty that the majority of the people
and nations of the world understand the implications of circumcision, and its
innate nature as a crime of institutionalized child abuse. This can only lead to
the further conclusion that any organized group that supports circumcision, and,
in fact, requires it as a rite of initiation, must be, by nature, a criminal
institution that is based in the practice of routine child abuse, and this is
borne out by the status of circumcision within the purview of the United
Nations.
Circumcision can be implicated as one of the historical and current reasons why
some people so viciously hate so many other people in their lives (
http://www.nurturing.ca/saharasiareview.htm ), because of the trauma of the
terrible pain and suffering that was inflicted upon those people right after
their birth into this world. Circumcision can also be implicated as one of the
reasons for many of the sexual and mental abnormalities found in some societies
that are not generally found in other societies throughout the world, and
apparently, the embarrassment that many circumcised men exhibit regarding nudity
occurs because on some level, they are ashamed to show their scarred, mutilated,
smaller circumcised penises to other men who may not be circumcised.
Saharasia - http://www.nurturing.ca/saharasiareview.htm - "The 4000 BCE Origins
of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence, In the Deserts of
the Old World." "New Study On the Origins of Violence Proves: Ancient Humans
Were Peaceful, Modern Violence is Avoidable."
Thus, acknowledging the trends which have been identified, it will come to be
understood in the future that circumcision, and the organizations that support
its use, are organizations of institutionalized child abuse, and that the
purveyors of this crime of child abuse should be punished as felons with
imprisonment for the irreconcilable damage which they impose upon their own
children. This can only be a very unfortunate situation, as it may in the future
lead some people to validate the acts of Nazi Germany and Adolph Hitler, in the
interpretation that Hitler was simply imprisoning and punishing the Jewish
people for crimes for which they were truly deserving, and this could become
even more widely accepted if it were ever to be discovered and acknowledged by
historians that there was no explicit planned extermination of the Jewish people
through the event known as the Jewish Holocaust, but could still be well-enough
accepted regardless of such revisionist progressions of historians.
Furthermore, the following information could affirm the above assertions even
more;
On page 214 of "The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia" (Universal Jewish
Encyclopedia, Inc., 1939), the following is found;
"The circumcision rite consists of the following: 1. milah, cutting off the end
of the upper prepuce; 2. periah, baring the glans by tearing or cutting the
tender lower prepuce and pushing it behind the glans; 3. metzitzah, the sucking
of the wound, to staunch the blood, by means of the mouth, as practiced in
earlier times, or by means of a suction cylinder or other modern methods in more
recent times."
On page/column 572 in Volume V of "Encyclopedia Judaica" (Keter Publishing
House, 1971), the following is found;
"The next stage is the performance of mezizah ('suction'). This has led to much
controversy in recent years. Throughout the ages this was done by suction by the
mouth in order, according to Maimonides, to remove the blood from the distant
parts of the wound (Maim. Yad, Milah, 2:2). It was the recognized method of
disinfection at the time. A mohel who refrained from performing it was
considered to be endangering the life of the child, and had to be debarred from
practice. Toward the middle of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
cases of syphilis, tuberculosis, and diphtheria occurring in infants were
ascribed to infection from mohalim using this method of suction. This has been
contested by a few Jewish doctors, and some communities still follow the
original practice. The Paris Consistoire abolished mezizah in 1843."
On page 167 of "Encyclopedia of Judaism" (Jerusalem Publishing House, Ltd.,
1989), the following is found;
"The circumcision itself takes only a few seconds, and is performed by a
circumciser (mohel). Formerly the blood was drawn orally by the mohel but now an
instrument is used."
An interesting addition is found on page/column 570-571 in Volume V of the
aforementioned "Encyclopedia Judaica";
"In 1843 the clerical leaders of the reform movement in Frankfort sought to
abolish circumcision among their adherents; the controversy concerning its
necessity in Judaism lasted for 20 years and eventually spread to America. They
based their objections to circumcision on five reasons: (1) It was commanded to
Abraham and not to Moses. It is not distinctive of Israel since it is also
practiced by descendants of Ishmael; (2) It is mentioned only once in the Mosaic
law; it is not repeated in Deuteronomy; (3) Moses did not circumcise his own
son; (4) The generation of the desert was not circumcised; (5) There is no
initiation of daughters into Judaism. All these were answered by Orthodox
rabbinical authorities. To counter this agitation, Leopold Zunz wrote his essay
on circumcision (Gutachten ueber die Beschneidung, Frankfort, 1844). Today, most
Reform Jews have their children circumcised."
It is noted here that in the "New Standard Encyclopedia of Judaism" (Facts on
File, Inc., 1992), no mention at all is made of the mezizah, and it will be
observed that the more modern the reference edition used, the less that is
disclosed about the practice of the mezizah. However, all of the above
information is easily found in the reference section of most libraries, and
furthermore, an Internet search on "mezizah" and/or "metzitzah" will easily
uncover the cherished association and continued use of this practice by some
Orthodox Jewish communities.
The conclusion in the matter is that the "mezizah" is the stage of circumcision
where the mohel places his mouth on the baby's penis and sucks the blood from
the wound. And while many of the sects of Judaism claim to no longer use the
mezizah, it is clear that this stage was performed by all sects for at least a
millennia, and in fact, is still performed in some Orthodox sects (by some
people who condemn homosexuality as a sin punishable by death -
http://www.universalway.org/Foreign/judaism-homo.html#DeadGays ), all of which
identifies the original nature of the ritual upon which the modern operation is
based.
Mohel sucking blood from baby's penis -
http://www.SexuallyMutilatedChild.org/mohel.htm
Thus, in the same manner that pedophilia is acknowledged as a repulsive act of a
criminal nature by many people and nations, the sucking of the penis of a baby
boy as part of the circumcision rite of Orthodox Jewish Rabbis can even further
establish the innate criminal nature of circumcision, by placing the orthodox
ritual squarely within the realm of sexual child abuse of the same nature as
pedophilia.
Because of the importance of the circumcision initiation ritual to Orthodox
Judaism, it must be assumed that the Orthodox Rabbis will always oppose all
efforts to lawfully and legally place circumcision within the realm of criminal
statutes, and this can only further cause the people of the future to become
even more polarized to the orthodox form and practice of Judaism, and cause even
more of a schism between Judaism and the people of the world than presently
exists at this point in history. It thus becomes tantamount that the followers
of the other sects of Judaism move to take actions which can protect the
existence of the majority of the tenets of their religion in the future, by
themselves outlawing the practice of circumcision within their own sects, and by
establishing alternative initiation rituals which replace rituals which can
identify Judaism with the innate criminal acts of child abuse and pedophilia.
In that respect, NOCIRC also presents an alternative birth ritual, developed by
a Jewish parent in consultation with his Rabbi, entitled Brit Shalom, Covenant
of Wholeness ( http://www.nocirc.org/religion/Naming%20ceremony.html ), and this
ritual now offers Jewish parents a way to maintain their religious convictions
while also avoiding violation of international law, and future prospective
national law.
Brit Shalom - Covenant of Wholeness -
http://www.nocirc.org/religion/Naming%20ceremony.html
"This ritual was developed by a Jewish parent in consultation with his rabbi."
"RABBI: Abraham picked up the knife to slay his son. But the Angel of the Lord
called to him from heaven: 'Abraham, Abraham.' And he answered, 'Here I am.' The
Angel said, 'Do not raise your hand against the boy nor do him any harm.'
(Genesis 22:10-12) Historians tell us that both the priestly animal sacrifice
and the blood rite of circumcision replaced an earlier practice of human
sacrifice. Instead of giving up the male child's life itself to God, the Jews
began to offer up the blood of circumcision." "Parent 1: But the real test in
this passage and in Genesis 17, where God commands Abraham to circumcise his son
in exchange for land, was not whether Abraham would blindly obey God but if he
would use his innate moral sense and tell God: 'NO! It is WRONG to maim innocent
babies just so I could have a piece of land.' 'NO! It is wrong to murder even on
your command.' Abraham failed these tests and we have been living with his
failure ever since."
Should rectification of this situation not be advanced, then either the future
of the world must be that of a criminal nature, or the Jewish people will become
further stigmatized by many people and nations of the world as a religion of a
criminal nature, and either of those results can only bring even more pain and
suffering to the most beautiful and innocent creatures in the world today and
throughout history; the children.
The National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers -
http://nocirc.org/
American Academy of Pediatrics Won't Recommend Circumcision -
http://www.aap.org/advocacy/archives/marcircum.htm
Child Circumcision: Legal Issues -
http://www.nocirc.org/legal/
Male Circumcision and the Rights of the Child -
http://www.nocirc.org/legal/smith.html
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -
http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/UN-convention/
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights -
http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/UN-human/
Saharasia -
http://www.nurturing.ca/saharasiareview.htm
Judaism and Homosexuality -
http://www.universalway.org/Foreign/judaism-homo.html#DeadGays
Mohel sucking blood from baby's penis -
http://www.SexuallyMutilatedChild.org/mohel.htm
Brit Shalom - Covenant of Wholeness -
http://www.nocirc.org/religion/Naming%20ceremony.html
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Michael
http://www.universalway.org/
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