General Charles Napier when dealing with sutte, the Indian custom of burning a widow on her husbands funeral pyre: 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.
"the human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear." - General Charles Napier
Perhaps we need some new customs of our own when dealing with a few hundred troublemakers who incite others into a murderous frenzy.
Excellent point. I have used that as a reference to Afghanistan in the past, but never knew the general's name.