Glasgow Screening of 'The Imam
and The Pastor'
The St Mungo Museum
in Glasgow, a 'Centre for sharing of faiths', was
the venue for a showing of The Imam and the
Pastor on Saturday 18 August
The museum stands in the forecourt
of
St Mungo’s city centre Cathedral which dates back to
1197.
It was here that the Reverend Dominic Ind and the
Scottish Centre for Inter-Faith€ Spirituality arranged
for Imam Ashafa and Pastor Wuye to present their film of
forgiveness and reconciliation. Extra chairs had to be
brought in to accommodate an audience of around 80
people from diverse cultural and educational backgrounds
in the city.
The imam and the pastor stayed on for an hour and a half
afterwards to lead a discussion on the film and talk
about their present work of inter-faith mediation in
Nigeria. Many questions reflected the depth of the
subject and general interest aroused. A Youth Ministry
Lecturer later commented: 'What impressed me about Imam
Ashafa and Pastor James was not just that they gave
erudite answers to the questions they were asked – these
could equally have come from skilled academics – but the
fact that when they gave answers, these two men were
putting their lives on the line for them.'
Both men demonstrated visibly from their experience that
the building of trust across deep divides is possible,
and that it is the root of the answer to terrorism and
extremism.
Earlier in the day the two speakers had paid a visit to
Glasgow’s Central Mosque at the invitation of the imam.
Miles Paine
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