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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
Well, to take it back a little closer to OP-ville, I will agree with IL in that, even though this is a horrible, deplorable thing that is not acceptable under any circumstances, it is an act that is so far removed from Western cultural mores that we cannot relate to it on our terms. This is a practice that has been prevalent not only in Muslim society, but Hindu, as well.
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it is a practice which contradicts HUMAN standards of decency... I dont see it as having anything to do with society. We DO have a right to intervene.
Should we stand by and watch genocide - in the 1940's should the Allies have said "well, in Nazi society, however wrong it is to us, it is ok to kill people for being Jewish or Romany or homosexual...we really have no right to enforce our morality on them"???