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To: Mrs Ivan
Meanwhile the Left says we can't call these people "ignorant savages".

Bring back the good old days of the European Empires. People doing this sort of thing would be shot back then.

Love, Ivan

3 posted on 11/16/2006 2:07:34 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: MadIvan

From one of your countrymen:

General Sir Charles Napier (1782–1853), Commander-in-Chief in India.

A delegation of Hindu locals approached him complaining about the prohibition of Sati — the custom of burning widows alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands — and his response was:

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.


12 posted on 11/16/2006 2:40:06 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman
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