Anthropology Professor says Tribal Killing of Disabled Babies Should be Respected

LifeSiteNews ^ | 7/4/07 | Elizabeth O'Brien

[wagglebee]

Dr. Erwin Frank, an anthropology professor at the Federal University of Roraima, Brazil, is quoted in the Telegraph as having defended the violent practice, saying, "This is their way of life and we should not judge them on the basis of our values. The difference between the cultures should be respected."

I'm going to be sick.

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[nwrep]

I'm going to be sick.

Why? Have you not heard of abortion in this country? That practice kills disabled and non-disabled, all.

[mewzilla]

In Focus: Cultural Relativism

[silverleaf]

Dr Frank would have been an admirer of Mollech ....

what’s not to respect about the required sacrifice of children?

[voxpop]

Another 60's moral realtavist speaks. When will we begin to hang these SOB's?

[LibFreeOrDie]

That’s why they’re still just “indigenous tribes.”

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

There is nothing new under the sun......people have been helpless children since the beginning. It is sick and should not be tolerated.

[Ozone34]

“This is their way of life and we should not judge them on the basis of our values. The difference between the cultures should be respected.”

We don’t have to respect satanic possession. We didn’t have to respect it with the Carthaginians or the Aztecs, and we don’t have to respect it with any contemporary Brazilian tribes.

[voxpop]

relatavist, sorry.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

should have read killing helpless children

[pabianice]

Now, now... who are we to judge a superior third world culture?

[PureSolace]

They tell us abortion should be respected... so hey, why not?

[goldstategop]

The British would have said NO! We have every right to impose our values. Our respect for human life requires that we follow our values - and they are of a universal nature. We will ban everything that offends them.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[John D]

Dr. Marcos Pelegrinia, a doctor working in the Yanomami tribe district, stated that 98 children were killed by their mothers in 2004, the Telegraph reports.
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Mothers and doctors here in America abort more than that in a day.

[Arthur McGowan]

The difference between the cultures should be respected.

What "difference"?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I think we’re up to near an even 5,000 a day...4,700 was the last figure I read. A day. Every day. *SIGH*

[atomicweeder]

Reacting to wife-burning in colonial India, General 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.”