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	<title>Comments on: Family Batters</title>
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	<description>Down Under Punditry in the Middle East</description>
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		<title>By: Don Cox</title>
		<link>http://www.israellycool.com/2008/02/05/family-batters/comment-page-1/#comment-14340</link>
		<dc:creator>Don Cox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is because it happened in England that you have read about it. When the same things happen in Pakistan, nobody hears anything, and there are no arrests.

It isn&#039;t unusual for colonists to continue the customs of their homelands: for example, the Europeans in Australia did not adopt the customs and traditions of the natives. The Pakistani colonists in Britain will not willingly adopt UK law and customs, especially not while they still have close family ties to their home country.

Perhaps these sentences will make the more conservative Pakistanis hesitate before moving to Britain, or if they are here, consider moving back home. 

Not that I would wish these brutal misogynists on the local women in Pakistan either.

(Wife-beating is not uncommon among English families, too. But I don&#039;t think it has ever been fully accepted by English societies, except perhaps in parts of the North.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is because it happened in England that you have read about it. When the same things happen in Pakistan, nobody hears anything, and there are no arrests.</p>
<p>It isn&#8217;t unusual for colonists to continue the customs of their homelands: for example, the Europeans in Australia did not adopt the customs and traditions of the natives. The Pakistani colonists in Britain will not willingly adopt UK law and customs, especially not while they still have close family ties to their home country.</p>
<p>Perhaps these sentences will make the more conservative Pakistanis hesitate before moving to Britain, or if they are here, consider moving back home. </p>
<p>Not that I would wish these brutal misogynists on the local women in Pakistan either.</p>
<p>(Wife-beating is not uncommon among English families, too. But I don&#8217;t think it has ever been fully accepted by English societies, except perhaps in parts of the North.)</p>
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		<title>By: rafraf</title>
		<link>http://www.israellycool.com/2008/02/05/family-batters/comment-page-1/#comment-14337</link>
		<dc:creator>rafraf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>well, that story didn&#039;t make it into a lot of newspapers...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well, that story didn&#8217;t make it into a lot of newspapers&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: soccer dad</title>
		<link>http://www.israellycool.com/2008/02/05/family-batters/comment-page-1/#comment-14330</link>
		<dc:creator>soccer dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s been going on for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2764&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a while&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been going on for <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2764" rel="nofollow">a while</a>.</p>
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