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” Air laut menguap dan terangkat ke awan. Saat menguap, air itu kehilangan rasa pahitnya, dan menjadi murni dan segar kembali. Itulah sebabnya saat naik haji lebih baik berangkat jalan kaki daripada naik kuda, lebih baik naik kuda daripada naik mobil, lebih baik naik mobil daripada naik kapal, dan lebih baik naik kapal daripada naik pesawat .” Itulah kutipan film Le Grand Voyage, karya Ismael Ferroukhi (Perancis-Maroko) yang sedang diputar di JiFFest 2005 (Jakarta International Festival) di Taman Ismail Marzuki. Film ini mengisahkan perjalanan haji seorang warga Perancis keturunan Maroko lewat jalan darat. Bapak yang menjelang tua itu minta diantarkan oleh anaknya, seorang pemuda yang sedang maceuh-maceuh- nya, yang hidup di Perancis dan 'sedikit' tercerabut dari akarnya. Baca resensinya di Kompas, 9/12 ). Biasanya musim haji, atau lebaran haji, terlewatkan begitu saja. Yang ada di ingatan hanyalah sate kambing atau sapi. Tapi tahun ini agak berbeda. Karena ibuk...

In these recent days, we often hear the term of 'domestic violence' and 'marital rape'. We might have been familiar with the term of domestic violence, even we've seen it in our daily life at home. A husband to slap around or verbally abuse his wife, like that of appearing in a soap-opera TV. But what is 'marital rape'? It literally means rape in a marriage? Wow ... ain't it that means if we were getting married, a wife were legal to have sex with his husband, and vice versa? Let me take an example on the two Indonesian well-known actress who filed a lawsuit for divorce. According to the infotainment, it just because they suffer from sexual harrassement, to be precisely marital rape, in their domestic life. What was that? It hearsay that they dissented with their spouse to have an anal sex - sorry. We don't know exactly what the real problem was. But, if it was true, I'm curious to know about it. Is that Islam regulates that kind of matter, beari...