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 Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: Excerpt from Mark Steyn’s book ‘America Alone’ |
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p.193
In a 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. 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 have your custom. And then we will follow ours.”
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