Friday 

I'll try to take some pictures to illustrate this sometime, or I might even put the video on site if I ever get to be able to afford the convertor. Until then you'll just have to make do with the words.


Evening Call - 04/02/94

Main Gallery from balcony

Shiva statue

Close up of arm fracture

Newspaper cutting

 In St. Mungo's Museum, works of art from a variety of religious traditions sit harmoniously together, something which seems quite natural in the hallowed grounds of an art gallery. Only rarely is a visitor so strongly challenged by the idea of someone seeing the world in a different way, that they feel the need to attempt to destroy the physical representation of the other's point of view.  
 


Holocaust Picture

Belfast Picture

Open Qur'an Close up

Long shot Muslim & Jewish displays

 

 Of course the next logical step is to destroy the followers of different religions, or even a different version of your own. Christians mostly kill Christians, only occasionally uniting to slaughter muslims or jews. So much for the example of the Prince of Peace. Muslims also have those who ignore the teachings of their Prophet, for Muhammad said that we should talk to non-believers in the gentlest and fairest of manners. In the gallery, Muslim and Jewish displays sit side by side, as muslims and jews have done in peace throughout history until recently.  
 

Main gallery

Long shot Sharing of Faiths Banner

Pan through Patches in Close Up

 Are we to hand the world over to those who would divide and destroy? Is a museum the only place that religions can live in peace together? In St.Mungo's is a banner embroidered by members of seven great faiths working towards the same end as part of an interfaith dialogue. If we are to give our children hope for the future must we not share the greetings we use amongst ourselves.

Peace be with you - Shalom Aleichem - Salaamu aleikum.