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God's will

Reader comment on item: [The American Muslim Council:] 'Mainstream' Muslims?
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Submitted by Vijay (United Kingdom), Nov 5, 2007 at 18:39

In the BBC photo albums of ordinary people around the world, an Egyptian woman school teacher is photographed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/middle_east_egyptian_family/html/1.stm

She saw her father violent towards her mother and her own husband - whom she initialy misjudged as kind- is violent towards her. She accepts all these violence as God's will. Very Islamic and Arabic fatalism.

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