My apologies to Anand Patwardhan, but I can't resist thetemptation to borrow the title of his film as an apt description of what ishappening in the world right now (i.e. October 2001, the month after theterrorist attacks in the USA). Whether the father is Saudi billionnaire Mohammedbin Laden, with his close ties to the Saudi royal family, the son is hisestranged offspring Osama, who is enraged every time he thinks of infidelAmerican troops stationed on the holy soil of Saudi Arabia, and the holy war isthe jihad which the latter has declared against America and Americans; orthe father is George Bush Sr, who started it all with his war to defeat SaddamHussein by gradually exterminating the people of Iraq, the son is George Jr.,who has trouble opening his mouth without putting his foot in it, and the holywar is the crusade the latter has declared against, well, let us say vaguelyspecified enemies who happen to be Muslims - in both cases, the themes ofreligious communalism, militarism and machismo are inextricably intertwined.