♪ anthony: as one moves away from the coast and into the interior, everything changes. this is the country's more conservative core, its spiritual center. uniquely, oman's majority is neither sunni nor shiite, but rather ibadi, a very old and particularly tolerant nonsectarian form of islam. this is a distinction we in the west would be wise to notice. islam is not a monolith it comes in many forms. ibadi theology arguably forms the backbone of many of oman's codes of conduct. it places value on concepts like politeness, acceptance, unity,