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We are about to fly to New Delhi, and we are able to take stock of our first destination. Including a night in the dessert, Jordan is a wonderful country, although we cannot say the same about its people. At least no without hesitation. They are Muslims and many of them act as such. We are not saying this as an offence, but as a fact. If you are walking in the street, they are not going to insult you or pull a long face just because you don’t profess their religion. However, if you are a woman, some will ignore you as a person and others will besiege you like animals. They have their wives well covered, so that nobody can see them, as if they were buried alive. The Muslim man look the other women up and down as if they were camels in a cattle market. For instance, one of the guides in Petra, in front of 200 tourists, compared, with no sense of shame, choosing a woman for marriage with buying a horse. The worst part was that some westerners laughed at his antics. Those are probably the ones that, without second thoughts, would sell their wives for a piece of stale bread. According to the exchange rate, it amounts to nothing, more or less what they are worth.

However, we started to have doubts when we realized that not one or two, but many Muslim women looked at blondes with tank tops as if they were the Devil wearing Zara. They accept, with no act of rebellion, that the right thing is to walk with veils and tunics under a 40º C weather, while their husbands swim wearing shorts. Some of these women, are actually in love with their warders, and they don’t mind sharing their beds and husbands with other women. The strange thing is that after getting lost in their streets and roads, having a flat tire in the middle of the dessert, eating with them and sleeping in their hotels, you cannot stop liking them for the way they treated us. Then, you wonder if it is possible that there are millions of monsters in this world, or perhaps it is the way they were raised, or maybe it is the religion they were taught that is evil. I only know that it is not possible that this charming people are able to be so wicked at the same time. Or maybe it is possible, and without our knowing, all of us have some evil inside. Maybe it is just a few who insufflate many others with their divine ideas and their infernal threats. I wonder whether we carry it in our genetics or it arrived in the carriage of a fake god.

So, if it is not ours or theirs, whose damn fault is it?

Madaba, city close to the Dead Sea