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A host took the mic afterward, improvising an endorsement to loud applause: “If we just stick together, all the rights we always complain about—we have to fight for our rights. Inshallah, we will support him.”

“Inshallah,” said another, meaning God willing, when asked if he believed that Hezbollah would retaliate for the killing.

“I’m sure Zara and Zayd will be perfect teenagers when that day comes, eventually, a long time from now, inshallah,” she says.

Before things take an unjust turn in Amjad Al Rasheed’s tense and accomplished directorial debut, “Inshallah a Boy,” a wife and husband lie in bed discussing the timing to conceive a second child.

“Our premise was different, it wasn’t the Imam, the rabbi and the priest walk into a room and talk about religion 101. Our premise was, we’re having women come into our house, a place of vulnerability, they’re meeting my family, they’re seeing how I eat, and we’re going to have a conversation about a topic that you’re told not to talk about. And inshallah we will continue to do that, but it’s not easy,” Aftab said.