Though today the center of the Catholic world–and until 1517 the center of all Christianity–Rome is an increasingly multicultural city that is home to people of all religions.
While ethnic and religious diversity is not always warmly embraced in the Eternal City (see our post from last week about the publicity campaign sponsored by the CGIL labor union that encourages tolerance and equal rights for all), we at the eCool compound would like to believe that many Romans are accepting of others’ difference.
Thus, it warms our hearts to see pictures like these, which show hundreds of Roman muslims gathered in Piazza Venezia for prayer on the occasion of the Feast of Sacrifice, or Eid-Ul-Adja, a commemoration of the command given by Allah to the Prophet Abraham to sacrifice his first born son Ishmael or Isaac to him.
