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Once again the world is in turmoil people getting killed, ambassadors being burned alive. Protests, water cannons, marches consisting millions of men all due to a video/film/piece of crap titled "innocence of Muslims." My friends and family have asked me to write something regarding this terrible incident. But for 4 days straight and even now I don't know what to write? All of my so called intellect my so called knowledge, my endless hours of study and thought fail to answer a single question i.e., "What I, may write?" As Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal once wrote in honor of His Excellence Fakar-e-majudat wajah-e-Wajood-e-Kainat Hazoor
"Thy are the scrolls of destiny, Thy is the pen of writing it, Your presence is the Holy Book of Koran"
But I believe breaking somebody's heart and refusing anybody's rightful request are as hideous of sins as they come so here it is. I don't want to give a 25 min lecture on what to do and what not to do if an offence like this, may happen. And most definitely I wont start the debate that whether only Muslims can commit blasphemy or not. Should there be changes in the blasphemy law or not? And finally I am afraid I won't be giving the verdict that either Taseer deserved death or Qadri deserves freedom. I would like to shed some light on the fact that: The acts distributed from, queen of England knighting Rushdie to Pope Benedict giving statements of utter offense from Denmarks Cartoonists to Bangladeshi Suriya Nasreen and definitely from French newspapers to American filmmakers. All of these have done something too hideous to remember and to grotesque to remind. But these are not the only non-Muslims in the world. There are few with eyes as well as aesthetics from Mahatma Gandhi to Golda Maire, The extracts from books of Micheal H. Hart to Karen Armstrong and definitely from views of K.L. Gauba to Martin Lings. I have chosen few of such lines written by Kunwar Mahendra Singh Bedi (direct 16th descendant of Guru Nanak, Creator of Sikhism religion):