If Imam a tourist, I love it!
Sunday November 4. We were so tired, I think I was asleep before my head hit the pillow. When Jackie turned out the lights, I was snoring before the room got dark. Morning, it was hit the road to meet with an imam to have a question and answer session in his mosque. The imam was rather young, about 30, and according to the ladies on the tour, quite handsome. He is rather liberal in his outlook and very pragmatic. The biggest surprise for me was that there is no religious instruction in the public schools. Instruction in Islam is the responsibility of the family, parents and grandparents. The imam salaries are paid by the state, not by the congregation. There is no clerical hierarchy.