{"id":77495,"date":"2015-10-22T19:50:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T03:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77495"},"modified":"2015-10-22T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T04:00:09","slug":"jews-gentiles-circumcision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77495","title":{"rendered":"Jews, Gentiles & Circumcision"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Jew challenged me this week: “I fear that only when gentiles find the strength to forbid male circumcision<\/a> like they forbid even the mildest forms of FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) will they find the strength to stand up to the Jews on immigration and multi-culturalism.”<\/p>\n

Ouch. <\/p>\n

Another Jew responded to me: “Where do you stand on circumcision, having undergone it three times? If they ban it for everyone, then every Jew who would be part of a community that circumcises its sons would have little choice but to leave. Would you leave, and where would you go?”<\/p>\n

Luke: “Israel or some Jew-friendly place.”<\/p>\n

Jew A: “There is no standing up to the Muslim and not standing up to the Jew, for the Jew enables the Muslim.”<\/p>\n

Luke: “I’ll have to digest that.”<\/p>\n

Jew A: “I hope I am wrong. But I don’t think I am.”<\/p>\n

Luke: Not easy to think about.”<\/p>\n

Jew A: “Awful. But we are pushing them to that understanding, and we may not accept anything less.”<\/p>\n

Jew B: “So if confronted with such a change in the law, would you praise it and depart for Israel?”<\/p>\n

“I think you make too much of Jewish power. It was the goyim LBJ and Ted Kennedy who had the power to throw open our borders in 1965 – and who did. It is the goy church that is forever propagandizing on behalf of diversity. And is Angela Merkel a Jew?”<\/p>\n

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

This past week, I was in Miami for the bris (or brit), the Jewish ritual circumcision, of my grandson. It\u2019s a good time to offer a defense of the Jews\u2019 most ancient ritual.
\nAccording to various reports, there are Jews \u2014 and not only Jews who have forsaken their Jewish identity \u2014 who oppose circumcising their sons. They are still a minority, but they are vocal and, I suspect, growing.
\nTheir primary arguments are that circumcisions, whether for religious or medical reasons, are unnecessary; that they are a form of mutilation; and that the act inflicts serious pain on the 8-day-old for no good reason.
\nLet\u2019s begin with the first objection. In fact, circumcision is both medically and religiously necessary. People are free to object to circumcision, whether performed by a mohel (Jewish ritual circumciser) or a physician. But they need to be honest with the facts.
\n\u201cThe scientific evidence is clear that the benefits outweigh the risks,\u201d Dr. Jonathan Mermin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in 2014.
\n\u201cThe benefits of male circumcision have become more and more clear over the last 10 years,\u201d added Dr. Aaron Tobian, a Johns Hopkins University researcher.
\nCircumcision is so medically beneficial that many African countries demand that their male citizens get circumcised. The reason is that, other than sexual abstention, circumcision is the best way to reduce the risk of contracting AIDS. And there are multiple other health benefits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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