Sunday, July 03, 2011

Two Muslims and a Jew

There was an interesting story on Mail Online yesterday.

It was about a heroic woman who rescued a baby from a burning building after hearing his desperate mother's screams.

I've managed to contact the woman who turned out to be a Turk, as her name had obviously suggested. Our interview was published in Hürriyet today.

I'm sure that Nazar Melis had told the same things to Mail Online, but somehow their story didn't mention an interesting detail about the extraordinary rescue. According to this detail, when Nazar Melis entered the building in flames to save the Somalian Muslim boy, an orthodox Jew helped her. Nazar told me that his help was crucial, especially during the first aid procedure. She labels it as fate, predestination.

I don't believe in inter-religious dialogue on a political level, but I do love to witness it in daily life. Well done, guys!