“Nun tears down Jihadi flag after it appeared at gates of Tower Hamlets estate,” wrote one newspaper after Sr Christine Frost, a Faithful Companion of Jesus, arranged for a provocative black Islamic flag to be removed from the gate of the Will Crooks estate in Poplar, east London.
Headlines focused, understandably, on the clashes of faith and understanding as the local crisis in Tower Hamlets developed within the broader context of hostilities in the Middle East. There were also complaints of anti-Semitism with a non-Jewish journalist who arrived on the estate to cover the story allegedly told to “F*** off Jew”.
Sr Christine is keen to present the bigger picture that her local difficulty highlights. She has won the trust of the mainly Muslim community, of B
18 August 2014, The Tablet
'I got myself a stepladder and a pair of scissors': 77-year old nun explains why she tore down Jihadi flag in London estate
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