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toby
07-27-2006, 01:36 PM
Those Brits were right on target! LOL

In a more 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 follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."

AnyOldIron
08-08-2006, 06:01 AM
Yeah, the good old days, when we could impose our morality on others with impunity....