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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.”


17 posted on 09/04/2007 2:36:51 PM PDT by Lexington Green (There ain't no news in the news no more.)
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To: Lexington Green

Very good. Nice one...


24 posted on 09/04/2007 2:42:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
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To: Lexington Green

Excellent.


35 posted on 09/04/2007 2:54:53 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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