‘I will not tolerate his insults’: Backlash grows after US ambassador’s outburst against Belgium

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1. > White referred to a case dating from last May, when Antwerp police conducted searches at the homes of three mohels (circumcisers) suspected of performing circumcisions without the involvement of a doctor.

   Not only is circumcision for religious or cultural reason somehting that should be banned , in this case its done in an utterly disgusting (dont look it up) and highly illegal way but the US maga ambassador seems to think the belgian gov can just interfere in judicial cases (utterly violating seperations of powers) showing just how undemcoratic the current US administration really is if this is deemed normal.

2. Americans an genitals of minors…

3. >Responding to White’s outburst, Vooruit Chairman Conner Rousseau argued that “no one is above the law” and said the US ambassador “shouldn’t interfere with our legal process”.

   >”We have no lessons to learn from America about good and affordable healthcare for everyone,” said Rousseau in a statement.

   >”Belgium is a constitutional state that protects its citizens from any form of arbitrariness or intimidation. Here, we let the courts do their work, and no one is above the law. Not even an American ambassador. He has no business interfering with our legal process. I will not tolerate his insults to our country and our government,” it says.

   >According to Rousseau, it is “appropriate that our Minister of Foreign Affairs (Maxime Prévot, ed.) invites him to explain in detail the functioning of our constitutional state.”

4. Same administration would bomb out an entire country for female genital mutilation if it were linked to Islam

5. Just expel the ambassador. He has no place in a democratic society and should go back to his dear dictatorship

6. I hope the Belgian government will turn this into a nice little incident. Showing the rule of law and common decency. Also genital mutilation should be banned and / or prosecuted.

7. Is it somehow coordinated? Recently in Poland similar incident ambassador saying some idiotisms

8. Ban childhood genital mutilation in Europe.

   Let 18+ year olds decide to mutilate themselves here if that’s what they want. It’s no business of mine what adults do to themselves. But parents shouldn’t be allowed to consent to remove parts of their kids body in Europe without clear medical benefit or necessity.

   And if someone cuts their child’s genitals outside of Europe and comes to live in Europe later, then their child should be able to sue them for damages and compensation, enforced by European law, if it turns out they didn’t want the mutilation in adulthood.

9. Coordinated in the senee that all usaian ambassadors are either morons or arseholes or both, yes.

10. “It’s 2026, you need to get into the 21st century and allow our brethren Jewish families in Belgium to legally execute their religious freedoms!” oooooooh, the irony!