REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, AMMAN — A photograph of a Muslim cleric shaking hands with a priest under a Christmas tree in Abdali’s Boulevard, Amman, Jordan, has gone viral on the Internet, with sharers commending the sentiment it conveys.
The photo of the sheikh apparently offering his seasonal wishes to the priest has proven a hit on social media, with some 60,000 likes and 2,000 comments on Her Majesty Queen Rania’s Facebook page by Thursday afternoon.
First posted by Queen Rania on her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts, and exchanged by thousands in Jordan and in the region, the photo was snapped by an anonymous photographer in the newly opened Abdali Boulevard in downtown Amman.
On local media Jordan Times Facebook page, by Thursday afternoon, it was viewed by almost 100,000 people.
“This is Jordan, and, God willing, this is how it always will be,” wrote the Queen on her social profiles, wishing users a merry Christmas.
Facebook users considered the picture a display of love, tolerance and a call for peace in the turbulent Middle East.
Joseph Didonato, resident of New York, wrote on the Queen’s Facebook page: “Love Jordan and its beautiful people.”
Facebook user Diyana Shahrom commented on the picture, saying: “I miss Jordan! Lived in Amman for three years and still love everything about that country!”
Myo Myint Hlaing said the picture is a display of the simplest call, that is “love” and Noelia Urdangaray dubbed it a “whole example of tolerance”.
Bashar Haddad wrote on The Jordan Times Facebook page: “True, this is Jordan, the country of religious coexistence.”
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