One fare at a time!
Is it just me or does everyone just want world peace?
Is that too much to ask?
John and I were in Sydney yesterday – we caught a taxi from the airport to the city and were therefore trapped in a vehicle, captive audience of the taxi driver, for about 20 minutes…
He was a lovely bloke, Indonesian by birth and passionately Islamic.
And I mean passionately.
He wasn’t trying to make us become Muslim. He was just trying to make us understand his religion….
Some of his information was a little random, I must admit. Claims about how clean and hygienic Muslims are because the correct way to wash is laid down in the qur’an…
He also was at pains to point out how much muslims love Jesus, "A very important prophet…we love Jessus! Really! We really really do!" he said gleefully, "We love Jessus!" I there was some other claim thrown in that Jesus may in fact be a Muslim…but I was looking for the exit by this stage…so I didn’t ask for clarification!
Our driver did make one other good point though. He has four kids, two are at Uni and doing very well. He claimed they were so smart because they had been forced to study Arabic language and the qur’an since they were seven years old. He says good muslim kids are great students - he just shook his head about the bad muslim kids…
Just as we got out of the cab (I’ve never seen Johnny move so quick by the way - we were both pretty happy for the religion lesson to be over) he talked about John Laws and other members of the media who demonise Muslims and I was sad for him.
We must be careful not to believe everything we read or hear about Muslims. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, and most muslims can’t believe we think they’re violent or angry…
And I’ve gotta tell you, world peace would be great, at the very least it would avoid long monologues from Sydney taxi drivers hell bent on converting Sydney heathens, one fare at a time!
Is that too much to ask?
John and I were in Sydney yesterday – we caught a taxi from the airport to the city and were therefore trapped in a vehicle, captive audience of the taxi driver, for about 20 minutes…
He was a lovely bloke, Indonesian by birth and passionately Islamic.
And I mean passionately.
He wasn’t trying to make us become Muslim. He was just trying to make us understand his religion….
Some of his information was a little random, I must admit. Claims about how clean and hygienic Muslims are because the correct way to wash is laid down in the qur’an…
He also was at pains to point out how much muslims love Jesus, "A very important prophet…we love Jessus! Really! We really really do!" he said gleefully, "We love Jessus!" I there was some other claim thrown in that Jesus may in fact be a Muslim…but I was looking for the exit by this stage…so I didn’t ask for clarification!
Our driver did make one other good point though. He has four kids, two are at Uni and doing very well. He claimed they were so smart because they had been forced to study Arabic language and the qur’an since they were seven years old. He says good muslim kids are great students - he just shook his head about the bad muslim kids…
Just as we got out of the cab (I’ve never seen Johnny move so quick by the way - we were both pretty happy for the religion lesson to be over) he talked about John Laws and other members of the media who demonise Muslims and I was sad for him.
We must be careful not to believe everything we read or hear about Muslims. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, and most muslims can’t believe we think they’re violent or angry…
And I’ve gotta tell you, world peace would be great, at the very least it would avoid long monologues from Sydney taxi drivers hell bent on converting Sydney heathens, one fare at a time!
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