Betsy's Page: Mulitculturalism vs. women's rights

re: Johann Hari describes how European courts, specifically German ones, are denying women equal rights because, well, they're Muslims and so they should just expect to be treated as second class citizens. So, when women come into courts bruised from the terrible beatings their husbands or fathers have given them, the judges send them back home. They're not given the same rights that German women would have simply because they're Muslim...[snip]... / I prefer the response of General Sir Charles Napier who had this response to complaints in India that he wasn't respecting local culture when the British outlawed the practice of suttee in which widows were forced to cast themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands. /"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."..."...