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Oct 3, 2010 21:50:39 GMT -5
Post by stacey on Oct 3, 2010 21:50:39 GMT -5
" A Canadien force attacked the English village of Schenectady on February 14th, 1690. The mayor of nearby Albany, New York, described the French attack in a letter to the governor of New York: “We deeply regret to inform you of our deplorable situation, which is the result of a horrible and murderous massacre, simply without precedent in this part of America. Two hundred Frenchmen and Indians swooped on the village and assassinated sixty men, women and children in the most barbarous fashion. The cruelties committed in this place cannot be described, neither by spoken word nor in writing. Pregnant women were disemboweled, their children thrown live into the flames, and their heads smashed against doors and windows.” "
Why did they torture people when attacking colonies? This would only waste time, why wouldn't they just simply kill them? Why would someone even want to commit such cruelties? Is it because it proves an immense amount of power? None of this makes sense to me why this would have happened. A few years ago I heard of a girl from a third world country who was raped and then stoned to death because she was no longer "pure". How are people are still being tortured in other parts of the world when we (in north america) are so cultivated and sophistocated? How come this is not being stopped?
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Oct 4, 2010 12:54:01 GMT -5
Post by Mr. Delainey on Oct 4, 2010 12:54:01 GMT -5
You can take the person out of the superstition, i.e. Have them live in North America, etc. but you can never really take the superstition out of the person, i.e. They can live in North America but still believe strange things.
In the case of the girl you were refering to, these are called honour killings. The girl brings dishonour to her family by being raped and then either the government puts her down by stoning (or some other equally medieval method) or the males in the family kill her. I've always found this weird, in that, if my daughter were raped my anger would go not to her but to the man/men that did it.
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