Religious and cultural tensions escalate when an African Islamic woman has an affair with a white American agnostic man. | dG1fRUJISld5UHRQc0k
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00:00I'm focusing on how the idea of predestination shaped society,
00:05how it affected politics, culture.
00:07Yeah, yeah, I get it.
00:08Philosophical spread of Calvinism across Western Europe.
00:12I guess I'm obsessing over this
00:14because it's my last paper as a student.
00:16If you give it too much power, it will control you.
00:19Do you understand that you are wasting your time
00:22on a Ph.D. that is essentially worthless?
00:25You don't even act interested in men.
00:28That's because it's rare to find one who's interesting.
00:31Name, please?
00:32Ara Jalali.
00:33I go to school with you.
00:35We're in the same department, Ben Johnson.
00:38Ah, my faith in Allah has been a source of strength
00:42and peace for me.
00:44I'm agnostic, I don't have a religion.
00:46Something that saves me from drowning when I'm at my lowest.
00:49Do you want to maybe meet up again?
00:51Uh...
00:53Sure, okay.
00:55I'm sorry.
00:56Start hanging out with a new friend.
00:59Well, what's her name?
01:01Ara.
01:02Everything that has happened or will happen
01:06could not have unfolded in any other way.
01:09What we do causes things to happen.
01:11Be careful with her.
01:13We only experience love through Allah.
01:16Ara, this is going to make you an outcast in our community.
01:20You know that, right?
01:21I was torn between what I wanted and God.
01:24I didn't think I could have both.
01:26You're better than this.
01:27Mom, I just need some time alone with him to figure some things out.
01:30Are you going to marry this man?
01:32Have children with him?
01:34You don't want to get married?
01:36No, not right now.
01:37You ever want kids?
01:38Uh...
01:39One day, yeah.
01:41It could be a nightmare now, though.
01:42Jeez.
01:43I was accepted into Georgetown Law.
01:45I wanted to see if you would come with me.
01:49It's very early in your first trimester,
01:51so you have lots of options.
01:54What were you going to write about?
01:56The ripples in the universe.
01:58About how everything that is or will be
02:00are all like ripples in a pond.
02:02All outside our control, and nothing can change them.
02:06Do you believe that?