To: rellimpank
"In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Gen. Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural:
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks, and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
India today is better off without suttee. If we shrink from the logic of that, then in Afghanistan and many places far closer to home the implications are, as the Prince of Wales would say, "ghastly.""
When England had a spine!
6 posted on
03/25/2006 11:41:58 AM PST by
truemiester
(If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
To: truemiester
"In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Gen. Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural:
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks, and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
Thanks for quoting the "money paragraph" in Mark's piece. Will we assert our character and beliefs? Will we require freedom of religion in Afghanistan as the price of their freedom from the Taliban?
15 posted on
03/25/2006 11:52:35 AM PST by
Forgiven_Sinner
(God is offering you eternal life right now. Freep mail me if you want to know how to receive it.)
To: truemiester
"You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
Under suttee, the guy is already dead and crispy.
23 posted on
03/25/2006 12:28:16 PM PST by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: truemiester
When England had a spine!
----Do we now have a spine?
42 posted on
03/25/2006 4:50:29 PM PST by
ontos-on
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