on religion..

When I was on the tram just now, heading back home from class, I heard this one quite interesting conversation near the back of the tram. Well, not quite eavesdropping but only accidentally hearing snippets of what they said as their voices were quite loud and can be heard to the front of the tram, which where I sat.

The conversation (or should I say, argument) was between a Muslim African woman, accompanied by her son which I think whom was blind, and a local man (I think, judging by his fair skin and accent) who, by the looks of it, looked kinda annoying.

It went on like this, I suddenly heard that the woman told the man about Islam, because she mentioned about the phrase "Laaillahaillahallah Muhammadarrasulullah", the name Prophet Muhammad SAW, about not knowing when we'll going to die, about his son used to take alcohol and such, and so on and so forth.

I can just caught a few things that the man said as the tram engine was a bit noisy and what's with the announcement made by the tram driver and such. The man said something about "We have a Christian story too", then he mentioned the name Jesus Christ, then something about him giving money or something.. While he said all this, he was smirking as if he enjoyed provoking the woman or something.

Then I don't know what else did they argued about and then the tram stopped at her stop, and when the woman and his son (or accompany; I don't know whether that was his son or not), the man, who was still on the tram, gave a little salute to the woman, still with that annoying smirk on his face.

When I got off to my stop (which is the next stop after where the woman got off), I kept thinking whether the man is making fun of the Muslim woman or not, or he was just joking around for the sake of neutralizing the situation. I don't know. I know the woman was passionate while talking about our religion, and maybe the man was amazed by it, but it sure is not something to be making fun of.

Religion is a sensitive issue. Please don't make fun or jokes about it okay.