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 18 August 2007.
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.
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