Respecting Religious Diversity

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General Napier, the British officer, responding to the Indian custom of suttee:

"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

Comments

[forwrathandruin]

Hear, hear.