Word: inheritence
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...sequence in that school is, in some ways, the film's most chilling: young boys singsonging ancient religious verse, sternly criticized for incorrect tonalities while learning nothing of the actual world they will inherit. But the whole movie, made well before Afghanistan achieved its current place in the world's consciousness and at obvious risk along a smuggling route, traffics in ironies of this frightening kind. The distressing portrait that emerges is of a handsome people whose kindly instincts have been subverted by fear, corruption and the desperate struggle to survive...
...century Arabia. In local pagan society, it was the custom to bury alive unwanted female newborns; Islam prohibited the practice. Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the right to own and inherit property. Muhammad even decreed that sexual satisfaction was a woman's entitlement. He was a liberal at home as well as in the pulpit. The Prophet darned his own garments and among his wives and concubines had a trader, a warrior, a leatherworker and an imam...
...century Arabia. In local pagan society, it was the custom to bury alive unwanted female newborns; Islam prohibited the practice. Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the right to own and inherit property. Muhammad even decreed that sexual satisfaction was a woman's entitlement. He was a liberal at home as well as in the pulpit. The Prophet darned his own garments and among his wives and concubines had a trader, a warrior, a leatherworker and an imam...
Even after the meek inherit the rest of the Earth, Afghanistan may remain reserved for warlords. Don't be fooled by high-minded discussions in the West about giving the Afghan people a broadly representative government -ethnic and tribal strongmen are carving out fiefdoms faster than you can say "Taliban retreat," and it may well be these "facts on the ground" that determine the shape of the next government...
...place. But as the years passed, I became bitter about not going home. I really didn't fit in with my liberal friends. In California, people's lifestyles are acquired--their taste, their decor, their behavior--but in New Orleans, where people stay with their families, they inherit their lifestyles. All those years, I was writing about New Orleans and obsessively longing for it, but I couldn't get there for more than a few days a year...