Comments on: Multiculturalism in action

By: Lefroy

Lefroy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:28:00 +0000

Actually the correct quote, now that I remind myself of it, is even better:

“Don’t cant in defence of savages”.

By: Lefroy

Lefroy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:16:28 +0000

Quote:

“In what way was this honor killing “successful”? Was Rashid not arrested and charged with murder?”

In this way: the girl’s life was snuffed out by her father.

Don’t cant, Sir, about savages.

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By: Virgil

Virgil — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:07:56 +0000

In what way was this honor killing “successful”? Was Rashid not arrested and charged with murder?

By: Tina Trent

Tina Trent — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:06:06 +0000

The Atlanta Journal Constitution has responded to this story by publishing one cultural apologetic after another, the latest being by three Pakistani sisters living in America who detail the many rights women possess in their culture when they aren’t being killed for disobeying men. Fair enough, but the aftermath of a culturally-sanctioned, gender-based murder is precisely not the time to turn away from the subject of culturally-sanctioned, gender-based murder to “celebrate” the advances made by elite women in business and in medicine and in America. Alarmingly, the Akhar sisters acknowledge that the gender violence endemic in their home country is on the rise in immigrant communities in America. It’s brave of them to say so, but it is a fact lost in the louder insistence that it’s simply tasteless to object to honor killings because feelings might be hurt.

By: Lefroy

Lefroy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:00:59 +0000

wkg says:

“We should understand that in certain cultures, honor killing is accepted.”

Quite right. We should be diffident about the practice of honour killing. We should look on respectfully and say “I have no right to censure the strangling recalcitrant girls who refuse to enter into arranged marriages, because that is their culture”?

And I’m quite sure the victim, as she struggled for her last breath, would have been outraged to think that westerners like us were presuming to criticise her own culture in this way.

As Dr Johnson said, “Don’t cant, Sir, about savages”.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:50:50 +0000

wkg

You are quite right. We should remeber Lord Napier’s comment when told that suttee was a local custom: “We too have a custom. When a man burns a woman alive, we hang him.” He then invited the Indians to carry out their custom the British would then carry out theirs.

By: wkg

wkg — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:07:40 +0000

We should understand that in certain cultures, honor killing is accepted. Those same cultures should accept, that as part of our culture, Mr. Rashid will stand trial and be executed for his crimes.

By: J.J. Sefton

J.J. Sefton — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:54:21 +0000

Outrage?! I’m outraged you want outrage! Can you say “relativism?” That’s why the women’s libbers in the US of A will rip the co-jones off of anyone for calling a woman a chick or a dame. But forced female circumcisions, making rape victims the criminals and other hideous mass crimes against women in the Muslim world… (crickets chirping). Gloria Steinem? Hello?

By: LSD

LSD — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:08:55 +0000

The point being that we are just like everyone else in that everyone is limited to a point of view. Clearly, there are differences; the acceptance of honor-killing is a good example.