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--- dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> coming very late to this, but I read everyone's
> comments with
> interest. I am generally in favor of the
> preservation of other
> cultures, but not to the point of ok'ing things that
> are generally
> believed to be violations of human rights. One of
> the early feminist
> writers made this point with regard to clitoral
> mutilation, traditinal
> in many African societies.
>
> Dana
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Harkins, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:05:42 -0400
> Subject: RE: multiculturalism question
> To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> In the case of canadian aboriginal cultures, the gov
> allows them a limited
> form of self-government, partly out of a sense of
> debt and partly because
> they recognize that a culture benefits when it can
> apply localized solutions
> that bring the culture together rather than impose
> external solutions.
>
> The sharia law situation differs in that the culture
> involved does not live
> in a geographically distinct area and possesses no
> historical claim to
> cultural sovereignty. It also differs in its rigidly
> patriarchal, top-down
> style.
>
> This is not an abstract situation of a minority with
> different values, but a
> case where one group's traditions potentially
> violate what are agreed on as
> basic human rights in the larger society/culture.
>
> There are no doubt many ways in which Muslim
> tradition can be successfully
> utilized to help bring arab countries into the 21st
> century, but giving the
> old boy's club a free hand in the west isn't one of
> them.....
>
> Patrick
>
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