An Anomaly Below the Mokattam Hills
Occasionally you come across something which — at least in your own mind — does not belong in the place where you find it, an anomaly. While wandering the Cairo Necropolis, an inhabited complex of tombs and catacombs in the medieval quarter of the city, I noticed this bedraggled poster seeming unusual in a Muslim cemetery. It depicts Jesus Christ crucified wearing a crown of thorns and appears to advertise a Christian worship service. Although most Muslims respect Jesus as a prophet, they consider the concept of God Himself being put to death impossible to accept and extremely sacrilegious, which explains my surprise at finding this depiction so close by Al-Azhar Mosque and University, the intellectual and theological ground zero of Sunni Islam.





