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Barbara Amiel

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'''Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel''', Baroness Black of Crossharbour (born December 4, 1940) is a British-Canadian journalist, writer, and socialite. She is also the wife of former media baron and convicted felon Conrad Black.<ref>{{REFnews
| last= | first= | coauthors= | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2010/07/19/black-gets-bail.html | title=Conrad Black gets bail | date=July 19, 2010 | publisher=CBC News | quote= | accessdate=2012-10-03
}}</ref>
In "Circumcision is not about the rights of the child"<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Amiel | first=Barbara | coauthors= | url=http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/02/its-not-about-the-rights-of-the-child/ | title=Circumcision is not about the rights of the child | date=Oct. 2, 2012 | publisherwebsite=MACLEANSMacLeans.CAca | quote= | accessdate=2012-10-03
}}</ref> Barbara Amiel makes the case that the Ruling in Cologne is not Anti-Semitic, but a display of statism, government attacking individual liberty (in this case individual family unit) (ignoring the fact that the minors are not at liberty to decline circumcision). Mrs. Amiel (who is documented to be atheist<ref>{{REFweb
| quote= | url=http://www.nndb.com/people/325/000028241/ | title=Barbara Amiel | last= | first= | publisher=nndb.com | work= | date= | accessdate=2012-10-03
}}</ref>) admits that "I personally carry out certain rituals associated with my faith as a Jew, even knowing them to be utterly illogical. They are my tribe’s rituals. Had I a male child, I feel certain I would have had him circumcised."
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