We're begrudgingly allowed into this huge mosque in Old Delhi called the Jama Masjid but we are expected to show some modesty. We try to blend in. Instead, everyone stares at us bedecked in borrowed lungis available to the infidels. I have flashbacks of the tension felt during our short stay in Dubai. If I accidentally make a gesture with my hand will it be cut off? Religion may be the "opiate of the masses" according to Karl Marx but Islam takes the stage as "the scimitar of the Imam".
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Blending in at the Mosque
We're begrudgingly allowed into this huge mosque in Old Delhi called the Jama Masjid but we are expected to show some modesty. We try to blend in. Instead, everyone stares at us bedecked in borrowed lungis available to the infidels. I have flashbacks of the tension felt during our short stay in Dubai. If I accidentally make a gesture with my hand will it be cut off? Religion may be the "opiate of the masses" according to Karl Marx but Islam takes the stage as "the scimitar of the Imam".
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