Dr. Sami Aldeeb ist schweizer Jurist und erklärter Gegner der männlichen wie weiblichen Beschneidung, sofern sie ohne medizinische Indikation erfolgt. Vor Jahren hat sich Dr. Aldeeb einmal dargelegt , warum sich die Vereinten Nationen sowie deren Unterorganisationen wie WHO und UNICEF noch nie zur männlichen Beschneidung geäußert haben:
(Anmerkung: Die nachfolgenden Aussagen sind Teil einer Buchrezension. Ursprünglich hatte sich Dr. Aldeeb etwas ausführlicher über die Vereinten Nationen und deren Weigerung sich mit der männlichen Beschneidung zu befassen auseinandergesetzt. Da ich diese Ausführungen aber nicht mehr finden kann, leider nur der Verweis auf die Buchrezension!)
"January 12, 1992, I paid a visit to the World Health Organisation (WHO)
in Geneva, where I met Dr. Leila Mehra. I was then preparing a paper,
which I developed in a book in Arabic, French and English on male and
female circumcision. I asked her: "Why the WHO is concerned only with
female circumcision and doesn't consider male circumcision?" She
responded: "Male circumcision is mentioned in the Bible. Do you want to
create problems for us with the Jews?" The same day, I met Mrs. Berhane
Ras-Work, president of the Inter-African committee in her office in
Geneva. Strangely enough, she gave me the same answer, illustrating that
the two of them undoubtedly consulted each other before meeting with
me.
While I am reading this book, UNICEF Switzerland is waging an
intensive and aggressive campaign against female excision. UNICEF, as
other international and region organisations, refuses to use the term
circumcision, because it may produce confusion with male circumcision.
Not one single word is said about male circumcision. UNICEF never
produced any document on male circumcision, and always refused to open
the debate about this subject. Maybe for the same reasons invoked by
Leila Mehra and Berhane Ras-Work: "Male circumcision is mentioned in the
Bible. Do you want to create problems for us with the Jews?" It is
absolutely sure that if UNICEF begins a campaign against male
circumcision similar to its campaign against female circumcision, it
will be labelled anti-Semitic and many governments will stop financing
it. Because of money and fear, UNICEF is violating its mission to
protect the children, all the children, regardless of their religion or
gender. The same can be said of the United Nations Organization (UNO),
which developed many activities and issued many resolutions against
female circumcision but refused to take any position against male
circumcision, as it has been requested by activists struggling against
this practice. Let us remember here a fact that the great majority of
people, even intellectuals, ignore: the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the Convention on the rights of the child and other important
international texts don't mention the right to physical integrity, most
probably to avoid interpreting it as a condemnation of male
circumcision."
Überaus lesenswert ist auch der Blog von Dr. Aldeeb zum Thema der Ungleichbehandlung der männlichen und weiblichen Beschneidung.
Gruss
Tobias
