I saw the following article: "Gypsy, 20, who raped 12-year-old girl and left her pregnant with twins is acquitted by Spanish court because their 'relationship' is 'part of the cultural reality of their community'." Based on what is in the article, it seems that it was a case of statutory rape rather than forcible rape, but it is still a crime and for good reason. This is not a singular occurrence; I've seen other stories ever since the immigrant invasion of Europe where criminals are let off or given lighter sentences because they were just acting according to their culture and/or didn't understand Western norms. Which is just another way of saying that the migrants are animals that can't be held to the same standards as a civilized human being. But if they can't live up to the same standards, that would imply that neither are they suited to live among civilized human beings.
It also reminds me of the following quote from Charles James Napier responding to a Hindu priest complaining about the British colonial prohibition of Sati religious funeral practice of burning widows alive on their husbands' funeral pyres:
Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.
Napier was a strong and confident Westerner. The Spanish judge was weak and didn't care to defend the law or the Western values on which they are based.
Of course! Charge them by their standards, us by our standards. But there's no difference. But everything is based on the difference. Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteThey can't be invaders if they are not permitted to act as invaders.
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