Rum, Orthodoxy and the Lash
August 20, 2017
I was recently told a delightful, but far-too-good-to-be-true, story about the Muslims of Trinidad. It went more or less like this, and has remained in my mind as a fine image of jollity and carnival subverted by puritanism. The mosque in Port of Spain was originally built by Indian Sunnis, but in a warmly oecumenical … More Rum, Orthodoxy and the Lash