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Islamic Presentation Being Catholic, the religious allusions were immediately apparent. However what also became apparent was the virtual nonexistence of comparable Christian literature. In this story the author embraced each religions major character while it would be very difficult to find such work written by a Christian or Jewish writer. I thought this interpretation spoke more to the importance of the idea of these religious figures as opposed to the physical characteristics of the people which are shamelessly quarreled over. This idea inspired my collage which is composed of the various people alluded to in Children of the Alley and their images as seen by various societies across the world. It features a black Jesus, a Jewish Jesus, a middle-eastern Abraham and many others. The point is not their image but rather what they stand for and I think that this is realized when seeing all these different figure together. With Islam embracing and acknowledging the significance of the multitude of Jewish and Christian figures, many of whom appear in the Quran, it takes a place as a religion that can understand its peers much better than those of other faiths understand Islam. It is likely that this is a blessing and a curse. A blessing because Islamic people are less likely to divert attention to religious fanatics because they understand the misinterpretations of those fanatics, be they Christian, Jewish or of another faith. However it is a curse because of the significant amount of people who do not understand basic Islamic teachings and thus are subjet to gross generalizations as a result of their own religious extremists.