Juice and interfaith dialogue…

June 10, 2005

One of the best parts about Cairo is that on almost every block you can get fresh squeezed orange/pineapple/mango juice and it’s amazing…you can watch them make it right in front of you. And they all wear fun yellow and orange t-shirts.

All in all, it was a good day. I met another Egyptian on my second metro ride today, Mohammed. We talked for quite awhile, and then he found out that I was a Christian. He brought up Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of Christ. He said that everyone was very excited about this film when it came out here in Cairo. Then he told me that he was a Muslim, and got a kind of coy smile on his face, and said, “But no worries. Here in Cairo, it’s okay. Muslims and Christians…we are one.” Tomorrow I’m meeting with a Danish pastor who is doing interfaith dialogue work here in the city with Christians and Muslims, so it will be interesting to see how he interprets that statement, whether that really is the overall sentiment here, and how they deal with that…

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