July 23, 2007
Multiculturalism update
From the "Who are we to judge?" files comes this account of the glorious multi-culti quilt that is England.
LONDON (Reuters) - A Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an "honor killing" carried out at her London home because she had fallen in love with the wrong man.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was subjected to the 2-1/2 hour ordeal before she was garroted with a bootlace. Her body was stuffed into a suitcase and taken about 100 miles to Birmingham where it was buried in the back garden of a house.
I am reminded of Sir Charles James Napier, the British general and Commander-in-Chief in India, and the namesake of Napier, New Zealand.
Napier gained fame for conquering the Sindh province in what is now present-day Pakistan.
A delegation of Hindu locals approached Napier to complain about a ban on Sati, often referred to at the time as suttee, by British authorities. This was the custom of burning widows alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands.
Napier replied:
"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."
And that's the way to deal with the quaint customs and practices of the old country when imported into the new.
Posted by Mike Lief at July 23, 2007 12:10 PM
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