A German court has ruled that circumcising young boys on religious<br />grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm, in a landmark decision that<br />the Jewish community said trampled on parents' religious rights. The<br />case was brought against a doctor in Cologne who had circumcised a<br />four-year-old Muslim boy on his parents' wishes. A few days after the<br />operation, his parents took him to hospital as he was bleeding<br />heavily. Prosecutors then charged the doctor with grievous bodily<br />harm. The doctor was acquitted by a lower court that judged he had<br />acted within the law as the parents had given their consent.<br />Category: Jewish world
