WATER

I watched a moovie called Water last night which is about widows in India. Here is a little of the plot line:

"Water is set in 1938, when India was still under the colonial rule of the British, and when the marriage of children to older men was commonplace. Following hindu tradition, when a man died, his widow would be forced to spend the rest of her life in a widow's ashram, an institution for widows to make amends for the sins from her previous life that supposedly caused her husband's death.
Chuyia (Sarala) is a seven year old girl who has just lost her husband. She is deposited in the ashram for Hindu widows to spend the rest of her life in renunciation. She befriends Kalyani who is forced into prostitution to support the ashram, Shakuntala, one of the widows, and Narayan, a young and charming upper-class follower of Mahatma Gandhi and of Gandhism."

The moovie states that the widows were treated with accordance to some holy book of theirs. The Author of that book whoever that was sure did not have any respect for humanity towards women watsoever.

I wondered if that was how widows were treated, will the men be treated the same way,if they were widower ed. I doubt that. Men at that time pushed their superiorty everywhere. It makes us wonder that how fair and how much respect the Islam gives to women, how much Islam protect Women. I sure as hell am proud to be a women but more proud to be a Muslim.