3rd of October 2019
The Swedish Centre Party voted in favor of banning circumcision of boys in absence of a medical reason during the party’s annual meeting in Karlstad (Sweden) during the weekend of the 28th and 29th September. Although the decision on circumcision goes against the official party line, the rejection of the board against this outrageous vote was again overturned by party commissioners who voted in favor of the ban by 314 to 166 votes.
The European Muslim Jewish Leadership Council (MJLC) of Europe fully supports the protests voiced by our Islamic and Jewish brethren in Sweden.
The European Muslim Jewish Leadership Council (MJLC) calls on Swedish society to show the utmost vigilance towards maintaining freedom of religion and its practices. In the same way we call on the European countries to voice their protests against this discriminatory decision which might lead to such a ban within one of their member state.
The European Muslim Jewish Leadership Council (MJLC) prays to the Lord Above to be able to strengthen our respective communities in their struggle of maintaining their religious practices in a free and united Europe as a blessing for our own communities and far beyond.
Vienna, 3rd of October 2019
The European Muslim Jewish Leadership Council (MJLC)
Mufti Nedzad Grabus, co-chairman, Ljubljana
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, co-chairman, Moscow
Rabbi Lody B. van de Kamp, coordinator, Amsterdam
Imam Yahya Pallavicini, coordinator, Rome
