Pic ‘o the Week
by digby
This happened:
The [National] Cathedral welcomed representatives from five Muslim groups to pray in the Cathedral. The traditional Friday prayers, or Jumu’ah, were said in the north transept, an area of the Cathedral with arches and limited iconography that provide an ideal space—almost mosque-like—with the appropriate orientation for Muslim prayers. The sermon was offered by Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool from South Africa. The Rev. Canon Gina Gilland Campbell will offer the Cathedral’s welcome.
This historic service came out of Canon Campbell’s deep belief that powerful things come out of praying together. When people of faith come together in prayer, relationships and opportunities arise that are very different from political or academic collaboration.
Leaders believe offering Muslim prayers at the Christian cathedral shows more than hospitality. It demonstrates an appreciation of one another’s prayer traditions and is a powerful symbolic gesture toward a deeper relationship between the two Abrahamic traditions.
And then this happened:
Protestor escorted out of Washington National Cathedral as Muslim prayer service gets underway. pic.twitter.com/i8YMQMQNlc
— Suzanne Kennedy (@ABC7Suzanne) November 14, 2014
Why Gohmert used stills from The Greatest Story Ever Told to illustrate this remains a mystery. It seems to have had something to do with this:
Gohmert claimed the day was the 100th anniversary of the last sitting Caliph of the Ottoman Empire’s call for jihad against non-believers, which Gohmert said was a “catalyst which led to religiously-fueled genocide against Christian Armenians and Assyrians.”
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