Jewish and Muslim parents should wait until sons are old enough to agree to ritual circumcision, Norm-UK to tell conference. Parents should not circumcise a son on the grounds of faith without the child’s consent, a conference will hear today. Norm-UK, a charity opposed to male circumcision, said the practice was harmful and subjected children…
Upwards of 1,000 illegal immigrants are being moved from a holding center in Lampedusa to the Italian mainland, after 900 migrants reached the island in the past few days, and an overflow was cited as concern. Most of those moved included men, women, and children seeking asylum to the country. The Italian Interior Ministry said…
Lawyers representing the lone Canadian prisoner in Guantanamo Bay renewed their calls for his repatriation following the release of a videotape of his interrogation by Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) agents in 2003. The once-secret material was widely released Tuesday after a series of Canadian court orders. The tape depicts a then-16-year-old Khadr weeping and…
Two young neo-Nazis wielding baseball bats attacked a group of Muslims on their way to a mosque in the eastern German state of Thuringia, police said Sunday. A 23-year-old required medical treatment for injuries to his arm after the attack on Saturday evening in Nordhausen, some 250 kilometres southwest of Berlin. The assailants fled after…
Private clinics in France have been busy with a 30-minute procedure that can represent the illusion of virginity for women known as hymenoplasty. According to the International Herald Tribune, gynaecologists throughout Europe have reported that in recent years, more Muslim women are requesting virginity certificates before marriage. The service is widely advertised on the Internet;…
