Reuters - Paris -
A widely criticized
German court verdict on religious circumcision this week aims only to
delay the act, not ban it, and is not directed against any faith, a
jurist with a leading role in the legal debate said on Friday.
The operation does serious bodily harm and
only males old enough to consent to it freely should undergo it, said
Holm Putzke, law professor at Passau University in southern Germany.
Using
arguments Putzke has published in recent years, a court in the western
city of Cologne ruled on Tuesday that the circumcision there of a Muslim
boy who suffered post-operative bleeding had violated a German law
against causing bodily harm.
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