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While it may be ridiculous to criticize race, it is reasonable to criticize culture, writes Scott Gilmore

The attacks in Cologne have changed perceptions of migrants and maybe the nation’s willingness to embrace them

Muslims and Jews in Germany were united in anger last week over a Cologne court ruling banning circumcision on boys not old enough to consent to it. Because both Muslim and Jewish boys are circumcised as infants, members of the two faiths argue that their religious freedoms have been trampled on. The verdict came after a controversial 2010 incident, in which a four-year Muslim boy suffered profuse bleeding two days after undergoing a botched circumcision at a Cologne clinic. Ever since, the city has been immersed in a heated debate over the practice. But the court ruled that a child’s “well-being” trumps his parents’ religious freedoms.

The reviews are in for Dolce & Gabbana’s new cologne and the verdict is – there are people who actually review colognes? Really? Do they bicker like Siskel and Ebert used to?