Guest guest Report post Posted November 1, 2001 One cannot imagine the deepness of difference between Western culture and Islam. Nowadays the Globo network, the biggest TV-net over Brazil, Portuguese-speaker countries and many places in Latin America including Cuba, is boardcasting a novel placed at Morocco and Rio stressing these contrasts. It deals on a typical Brazilian youth, from Rio and Islamic descent, who got a heritage from an uncle who was living at Morocco. The man went to Morocco among with his sister and a Brazilian old uncle who could speak Arabic to get the heritage. He tough he was rich! As they were instructed that the deceased uncle was very rich. They could not imagine what the heritage could be. For their surprise it was a harem. Actually 18 women, whose ages were varying from 16 to 70 years old! The young man become the legal owner of 18 women according to the Islamic laws! What to do with this “heritage” in Brazil? His old uncle who was Arabic speaker told him to try to convince the Brazilian migration that they could live in Brazil, and told him that he should try to marry the young ones, to get a job to the middle aged ones and to take care of the oldest ones. No one of them could speak any Portuguese, of course. Neither they ever had left the harem indoors ! What would you do with this kind of heritage? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
talasiga 0 Report post Posted November 1, 2001 Originally posted by Satyaraja dasa: No one of them could speak any Portuguese, of course. Is speaking Portuguese essential ? My wife is Anglo-Irish ancestry and we talk to each other in English. Do you think our marriage will improve if we learn Portuguese ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 1, 2001 Talasigaji: Is speaking Portuguese essential ? My wife is Anglo-Irish ancestry and we talk to each other in English. Do you think our marriage will improve if we learn Portuguese ? Satyaraj: For certain in that novel it is. Midia-workers are always trying to attract their faithful followers, in that case Brazilians and other audience alike, who according to their statistics are mainly 32 years old women. They known everything about their habits, what they eat, what they like and dislike, what they believe, and so on. In fact these people are their cattle. Obviously these kind of women would prefer to speak Portuguese with their husbands, sons, and so on. Maybe that novel’s author is proselytizing that Moors are a misogyny people, as she is herself a woman. Can one imagine someone without any civil right like these harem’s women? Not even ID? Being treated like beasts? The novel stresses that it would be easier to import a camel or a horse from Morocco to Brazil than these poor women, as they are actually non-entities at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 1, 2001 While trying to resolve the problem he was facing due this kind of heritage, the young man took some advice from his old uncle. The old Muslim told him: “Why are you trying to solve a question that belongs to the future. Only Allah may give us any future! Now we should try to understand whatever good things Allah is giving us in the present. Those who try to solve the future actually live in great anxiety and are facing hell. Now Allah is trying to increase your own religious merit. Take care of these women as you can. You simply cannot abandon them, as they are like your property and have no other shelter at all.” Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
