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Sweden and Bris Mila

To The Editor:

You note that the deputy director of Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare admits that the injuries leading to Sweden's restrictions on circumcision were the result mainly of Islamic circumcision (on teenage boys) -- yet the law applies equally to Jewish circumcision on babies, where problems are extremely rare.

A similar situation arose some years back in the U.K. when a government investigation into "ritual slaughter" concluded that various dreadful, inhumane activities had taken place in ritual slaughterhouses. When a dayan challenged the government minister responsible for the report to say which kosher slaughterhouses had committed the various shocking infringements, he was told, eventually, that all the "atrocities" had in fact occurred in Muslim slaughterhouses. When asked why the report lumped together Jewish and Muslim methods of slaughter, condemning both, when only Muslims were at fault, the minister admitted that it had been done to "avoid charges of racism" involved in criticizing Muslims.

The same deception seems to be taking place in Sweden and for the same reason, in the light of Islamic terrorists.

We have an obligation both to publicize the truth and to call for a change in the Swedish law, limiting the restrictions to circumcision performed on males more than one year old.

Yours faithfully,

Joseph Feld

London


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