Humans are of course social animals, and ever since our ancestors abandoned life as solitary hunters to form discrete colonies of their own kind, people have adopted rules of conduct consciously or unconsciously designed to maintain social stability and order. Big cock Traditional Islamic civilization, successfully based for centuries upon a strict obedience to religious, patriarchal authority, is currently experiencing challenges as more and more of its peoples, indoctrinated as infants to accept the absolute wisdom of that culture, have begun to question the validity of the fundamental principles upon which their society had been founded as they come into ever-increasing contact with the conflicting customs and values espoused by other “alien” societies. And again, social order is successfully maintained. For the return trip I was granted a window seat, and I repeatedly found myself gazing hypnotically out over the vast blue waters of the Pacific Ocean, lost in thought as images of Island Royale flashed before




















