To Anonymous Who Continues To Insult...

This is a short note to the anonymous reader who posts insult on my blog. I have added a detailed comment. Its in the comment area of the topic "To Settle The Korean Issue". If you wish to comment, please do it there because I will delete this short note when you read my reply. Thank You.

To Settle The Korean Issue...

During Ramadan, I had the chance to catch some breath amidst this boisterous world that we have come to live in and contemplate on some of the replies that I have received in numerous forums concerning the apology to Korea. From warm appreciations to indirect accusations of being a Korean undercover agent, the responses were numerous. I thought of selling my Korean-made car so that it might not be considered a bribe from the Korean embassy which I haven't had the honour of visiting it because the last time my eyes caught sight of the Korean flag was during the 2002 World Cup.

The message I wanted to send via the apology was that there are voices in the Muslim world that consider what Taliban did a crime. I failed to find any line, any sentence, any dictum in Islamic jurisprudence that allows the murder of missonaries. But then the way in which Taliban chose to end the whole hostage situation clearly proved, without doubt, that their intentions were not wholly holy and for the sake of Islam.

To those who said that nobody apologises when Muslims are killed everywhere, I reply by a single sentence from one of Anthony Quinn's best movies "Omar El-Mokhtar" (the famous Libyan revolutionist): "They are not a role model for us."

And as for the anonymous person who left a comment here and called me Doctor "Battil" which for those who do not speak Arabic means "false or fake", the prominent Muslim scholar Imam El-Shafie once said: "Whenever I entered a debate, I asked God to show the Truth by my adversary's hands so that I would follow it."

I seek the Truth and on whosoever's side it is, I shall follow it.