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that time we respected women more than now. It was forbidden at that time to have two
wives.
The third subject is: the poets try to criticize the matter of democracy in our
society. They talk about democracy. We believe in democracy. We respect democracy.
We love democracy, but on earth we don’t apply democracy. We don’t apply democracy.
Do you follow me? You can’t find democracy practically. You can’t find it. We talk
about it. We love it. We like it, but we don’t try to have it really, and to live in it. This is
one of our―I don’t know if this is the right word in English―but one of our duplicities.
We have a dual personality, most of us. For instance, I write about love and I have some
poems and songs which describe love as a nice thing and a beautiful thing. Not just me
but this is an example. Me and other poets or other educated people. We talk about love.
We like love; we describe love as a beautiful feeling, but we don’t let our sister love
somebody. So this is the duplicity. What I mean is that we have double personalities
inside us. And most poets try to criticize this sort of people. We have to adapt; we have to
work and do according to our beliefs. But unfortunately, until now, we couldn’t establish
such a society. I think the people in Europe and America are better than us and Eastern
societies in this subject. When they believe in something, they exercise that thing in their
life and they do it.
And the fourth desire of poets, which I started―I think till now I am the only one
in Badinan adopting this style. Or I talk about it most commonly. It is the matter of
secularism. We should adopt secularism, and we shouldn’t mix religion and government,
religion and school. I am not in agreement with teaching religion in schools. I am not in
agreement with our condition now, when the teacher of religion comes to class. He says
all the Christian people should leave now because we have a religion subject. I can’t
stand this and I struggle against these things. How can I establish a democracy in this
society when our education system and our teachers in schools make this sort of
discrimination between pupils. “You go out because you are Christian. I have a special
thing to speak to my Muslim students.” I can say this is a sort of crime, it is a social