In the next frame, we can see a nun playing a semantron right in front of the monastery.
In the Discover the Place Where You Feel Reborn campaign, national identity discourses are constructed by appealing to traditions (a man creating a traditional clay pot, the presence of the Romanian "evil fairies" known as "iele"), religion (painted monasteries, a nun playing the semantron), culture (Brancusi's Endless Column) and architecture (the medieval Sighisoara, Bran Castle).
Ibn Zabr (whence Ibn 'Asakir) and the second report of Ibn eAbd al-Hakam contain nothing about crosses, employment, or the semantron in connection with Umar II, but add that non-Muslims were not to possess weapons.
'Abd al-'Aziz wrote (kataba) that the Christians of Syria be prevented from striking a semantron. He said (gala): And they should be forbidden (wa-yunhaw) to part their hair, and they should clip (yazuzza) their forelocks, and tighten their belts (rnanatig) [several more ghiyar stipulations follow] for if [the Muslims] have authority over anyone of them who does one of these things after being informed [of them], any [Muslim] who finds him may despoil him.