Right-ringers react negatively to inter-faith Christian-Muslim Christmas play by Chicago theater com

(RNS) — Christmas Mubarak! A beautiful Christmas greeting from Muslims to Christians. In Arabic, mubarak means “blessed.”

So I was taken aback when “Christmas Mubarak,” a new play produced by my theater company in Chicago, unleashed right-wing anger on social media.

How can Muslims and Christians build bridges of understanding? So often conversations focus on that which divides us. I attempted to produce a conversation built on all that we share.

While those who attended the play found it both informative and inspirational, those commenting online didn’t need to see the show to have an opinion.

Some thought the play, which presents the story of Mary and Jesus as told in the Quran with musical accompaniment by a Methodist church choir, to be the end of times as predicted in “Chronicles of Narnia”: An attempt to create one world religion (“Chrislam”) so as to eliminate differences between faiths and dilute their respective meanings.

https://religionnews.com/2018/12/14/i-produced-an-interfaith-play-then-all-hell-broke-loose/?fbclid=IwAR2TCCh6BXeb9q2rdjbQR8ifDYCiwUrVpWiuF_t3wyaOyfIgrD5j_Gt8M2A