Anchor: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Entailed: Islam had particularly appealing qualities for the men in Melaka who were involved in the coastal trade.
Contradiction: Islam could find no foothold in Melaka because of its pronounced masculism.
Contradiction: Analysts and traders never talk to the financial media.
Contradiction: A couple of young men are in their university class.
Contradiction: The priest secretly did not know how to read.
Contradiction: The man has a guitar.