Cultures of murder

November 21, 10:32 PMIndependent ExaminerBrian Trent

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Who wouldn't call the police on this situation...

While his mother screamed and begged for mercy, a 15-year-old Indian boy was beaten, his scalp shaved, and his body thrown beneath an oncoming train.

The boy’s name was Manish Kumar.

His crime, by the cultural standards of the state of Bihar, was to write a love letter to someone of a lower caste. As a result, Manish was assaulted on his way to school by a group of men and murdered in front of his mother. There has been one arrest, and a policeman has been suspended.

A policeman? I wonder why he was suspended. Hmm…

On the same day , an article on MSNBC discussed the pending court cases of three other sets of murderers right here in America. Two families in Oregon, and one in Wisconsin, let their children die because they favored prayer over medicine. 15-year-old Neil Beagley died from an easily-treatable urinary tract infection; 13-month-year-old Ava Worthington died from a combination of pneumonia and blood infection; and the 11-year-old daughter (name not released) of Leilani and Dale Neumann died from diabetic complications.

In my recent article on multiculturalism, I addressed how fanatics and fundamentalists have no place in the 21^st century. It doesn’t matter what ethnicity or religion they represent. These fundamentalists live and breathe hate, fear, and ignorance. The murderers of Manish and Neil and Ava and the 11-year-old Neumann girl are barbarians. The methods varied, but the results were identical.

“We have the right to believe!” we hear from these kinds of people.

Yes. But not to practice.

If your belief and/or culture tells you it’s okay to kill a young boy for expressing his love, or to deny secular medicine for your sick child because you expect the angel Gabriel to show up with a magic healing wand, you do not have the right – in a rational society – to practice.

As I stated in my earlier article, multiculturalism does indeed have a present and future, if implemented in accord with sound humanistic principles. But these people do not fall underneath that banner. They fall, and should ultimately be crushed, beneath the wheels of progressive civilization.