Interesting. The start of the piece:
Lawmakers from four political parties in Iceland introduced a bill in parliament that would ban the nonmedical circumcision of boys younger than 18 and impose imprisonment of up to six years on offenders.
Members of the ruling Left Green Movement, the Progressive Party, People’s Party and the Pirate Party submitted the bill to the Albingi on Tuesday, the RUV news site reported. Together, the parties account for 46 percent of the parliament’s 63 seats.
The measure cites the prohibition of female genital mutilation in 2005, arguing a similar prohibition is necessary for males. The report did not say when the bill would come to a vote.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Ironic indeed that Iceland’s looking a this while Wales does the same for piercings. Interesting that the connection is made with FGM. With such a small population it seems as much “virtue signalling” as FGM but a welcome precedent
“The children’s ombudsmen of all Nordic countries — Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway — released a joint declaration in 2013 proposing a ban, though none of these countries has enacted one.”
One presumes that in those countries as happened in Germany Switzerland and Austria the banning of MGM on minors fell foul of charges of anti- Semitism and more recently “Islamaphobia”.
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Sweden passed a law in 2001 which pushed MGM underground rather than regulated or restricted it; Germany now has a law protecting MGM. Clumsy legislating can make matters worse, but this is a move in the right direction. One wonders how many circumcisions are performed in Iceland.
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something positive instead of the usual feminist clap trap out of Iceland, finally. All the countries need to do this, belatedly.
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I’ve always said that male circumcision should be a decision made by adults, not imposed on babies or teens for weird religious reasons.
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