FN wrote, Can't we just let people accept what they want to, without offending their views and > their faith, however "illogical" it appears to us? FN >
Some faiths might believe in practices such as 'sati' ( a funeral practice among some Hindu communities in which a recently widowed woman would either voluntarily or by use of force and coercion immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre, or 'stoning to death' an alleged offender ( a Sharia law in Islam) or having a strong feeling of superiority of their own faith over others thereby displaying hatred for others, etc.(to give some extreme examples of letting people believe or accept 'what they want to' in the name of faith and religion) How far it is justifiable for 'rational members' of a civil society to accept or allow practice of such ' however illogical' beliefs. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ISSUES BEING DEBATED: In East Africa, despite colonialism, the British afforded the Goan a sliver of a socio-political voice. Read *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho. Soon to be available in Toronto. Pp 290. Via mail-order from [email protected] http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
