morocco observation

—Look, I pointed for Alice to see.

            What we were looking at was two men praying in the station office, located above the main hall. They were facing Mecca, towards a great mountain with various markings on, and in turn, they both knelt down – from the angle we were at, you could see only their heads as they came back up, arms raised. This wasn’t at all startling, except it was only then that I realised we were in a country whose main religion was something other than Christianity. This was a land with a completely different set of beliefs to our own, and whilst on streets back home it is common to see people of many races and many religions, we had never before been in the minority. Of course, there was no problem with this, it was merely an observation I made, and we watched in respect as they prayed, trying not to stare.