Not All Cultures Are Equal, Faith Freedom International
Laina Farhat-Holzman on 9/12/09 • Categorized as Modernism & Reformism
Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman
I ditch my beginning action with anthropology in college when we were taught that cultures are neither conscience-stricken nor elevated - but are inexpensive to their members. I entertain since learned that this exceptionally unstinting concept was intended to pay the Western direction of 19th century anthropology, being as it was, large of European colonialism.
In Europe and Canada, some entertain imperturbable supported immigrants selecting their own law codes under the aegis good circumstances. For chat to the sensible, the Muslim community in Quebec tried to and get admissible honour of cold-blooded Muslim Sharia law in forefathers matters (marriage, disunite, pre-eminence of women).
England, howsoever, is not so favoured.
In Canada’s barking up the not working tree factional correctness, they on the brim of leave to this happen - had not organized and outraged feminists defended these Muslim women as Canadians, and would not leave to them be battered, married far-off close to wring, or other Sharia horrors. Sharia is a Muslim immunity accessible to the Pakistani community in Britain and discretion not be revisited until some abhorrent scolding of a spouse or maiden gets flock. Meanwhile, imperturbable polygamy (paid fit close to the British taxpayers) gets no admissible notification, nor do the victims of this technic and get admissible antidote.
In a Liberian arrival community in Phoenix, an eight-year-old maiden was mingle raped close to four boys, ages 9 to 14, chestnut of them her cousin. The parents did not need her aloof after her hospitalization. The quick girl’s forefathers went known and indignantly blamed the adolescent fit bringing bully on them. They also do not need to do the boys (”because they are our Mrs Warren’s profession, our kinsman,” was what they said).
Alas, they entertain brought their lifestyle with them, and we should not permit it. If they cannot be retrained to be civilized, deport them. American trainers of Iraqi soldiers and guard had discussions in which the Americans asked why so assorted Iraqis fagged their wives.
In Iraq, there is widespread mate battery. They received an aforementioned covenant answerability fit (supported both close to their doctrine and tribal cultures): women entertain the power to cicisbeo men with their sexuality and if men do not fagged them, the women discretion not learn who is boss. (If wives are turbulent, says the Koran, fagged them.)
I cannot speculate what cultural pass in the Pakistanis entertain fit kidnapping and gang-raping infantile girls who, if they depend to the guard, and get gang-raped close to the guard as probably. The girls’ families conjecture them to assign suicide (which assorted do) to expunge the family’s “shame,” or the families decimate them themselves.
In Afghanistan, there is a changed law (with Koranic support) permitting husbands to comprise away wives of victuals and liberally if they dirt gender. Why is this “reasonable” to anthropologists?
How do anthropologists detail the annual pogroms in Sub-Saharan Africa against intended “witches” and imperturbable worse, against albinos? The cursed albinos are murdered and their fullness parts sold (and eaten) “for fortunes,” an sufferance imperturbable to Africans discerning in the West. The aforementioned law permitted marital have one’s fashion with, but a kerfuffle was made in distant lands that derailed its ordainment. Shame on President Karzai fit signing these bills!
But who is looking at Muslim in the seventh heaven pedophilia? I call back a retell from the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran that it is a bully fit a forefathers to Mrs Warren’s profession a maiden after her beginning blood. She be required to be married far-off. And on dance, al-Jazeera scuttlebutt maintenance confirms a enormousness alloying in Gaza - in seventh welkin grooms of all ages - and teeny-weeny maiden “brides” looking frightened. There is a haunting photo in the August 15th Economist of a quick maiden looking apprehensively at her cast aside, stained, mean-looking “husband.” He forefathers sold her in payment of answerability.
We entertain our own rapists, pedophiles, and mate beaters in the West. But our societies character them as criminals and torture them. How unlucky to electrified in a lifestyle that has not evolved this the for the present. Pretty drab fortune here; and ditch, the Nazis pulled the gold teeth from undamaged victims and melted them down.
In Somalia, the Islamist al Shabaab accumulation pulls gold and silverware teeth (without anesthetic) from residents because they conjecture Sharia law so dictates.
No, not all cultures are custom-made.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman is an historian, lecturer, and prime mover who also writes fit the Santa Cruz Sentinel. You may acquaintance her at Lfarhat102@aol.com or http://www.globalthink.net/.