The Muslims can never do such a thing, not even their worst terrorists who claim to be Muslim!

Politics is dirty!

If you want to solve a crime, think like criminals and put yourself in their shoes.

I respect Christians as human beings. However the way they sometimes think is hampering their logic.

When a father kills his own dutiful, righteous, loving and sinless son in order to save and forgive the sins of his other evil children, there surely must be something wrong.

The logic would mandate that you punish the evil children for their sins and not the good pious son! Never the less, this is what the Christians believe and this is their religion and choice.

But when they want to cascade this weird way of thinking to us Muslims, this is not acceptable as Muslims don’t think this way!

If a Muslim terrorist wanted to avenge the victims of ChristChurch, they wouldn’t target the innocent Christian community who had never done anything wrong to their Muslim countrymen in peaceful Sirilanka. Logic would dictate that such imbecile terrorists would unjustly target the family of the assailant, his country or those who defended him!

The Muslims and Christians in Sirilanka are a minority. To cause a drift between them would only serve the real enemy who would benefit from such a drift. It would justify any future atrocities against the Muslim Rohingya as they are Muslims. It will allow them to close more masjids, Islamic centers and Islamic schools worldwide. They can target muslim scholars because one of the attacker’s used to watch his lectures!

The Muslims can never do such a thing, not even their worst terrorists who claim to be Muslim!

The Muslims who died in Christchurch were 50 in number. Thousands of Muslims are being killed on daily basis in occupied Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands are being prosecuted in China and thousands of Muslim families are being deprived from their civil and religious rights in Europe in order to force them change their religion and brainwash their children!

Do you want me to believe that terrorists left all these and wanted to avenge only 50? Even Bollywood can make a better script!

Many Muslims had died is such inhuman attacks, among them were two Muslim Saudia airlines crew members. These attacks were not carried out by Muslim terrorists!

In the Christchurch massacre, there were Christians who justified such attacks and were not accused or condemned. Not a single Muslim among the 1.7 billion Muslims justified such heinous terrorists attacked.

Stop accusing Islam!

Assim al-Hakeem is an Imam at Masjid in Jeddah – Saudi Arabia, he regularly appears on Islamic Satellite channels. He tweets under @Assimalhakeem.

He did not live his life in the glare of publicity, but more in the shadows, simply and quietly, until the manner of his death threw him into the public gaze.

My beloved father, Mohsin Al-Harbi, had cancer. He expected that the disease would end his life in the normal way. Instead, God had other plans for him.

I woke up last Friday morning to news of the savage terrorist attack at Al-Noor mosque in Christchurch. My uncle in New Zealand told me that my father had been injured. Later, the news reached us that five bullets from a terrorist’s gun had taken his life while he prayed. He was 61 years old.

At 40, I am my father’s eldest son. Hassan, my brother is 39; my sister Nesreen is 36; my other sister Eman, who lives in Paris, is 30; Ahmad, the youngest, is 27 years. Our whole family was shocked by what happened in New Zealand.

Then my father’s photo was spread all over the world, on social media. It became an icon of the attack, and people around the world started praying and saying their farewells to my father. I thank God for this fate.

It is a tragedy, not just for our family, but for a peaceful country such as New Zealand, where people from different races and different religions lived together. My father, who lived in New Zealand for 25 years, used to remark on this often.

Who was my father? He was a warm-hearted person who respected people of all races and all religions. His character was a simple one, but nevertheless he was well educated and well read. A linguist, he spoke Arabic, English, Greek, German and Hebrew.

He devoured books, especially about the history of different civilizations. He read every day, and he taught us all to do the same.

He did not live his life in the glare of publicity, but more in the shadows, simply and quietly, until the manner of his death threw him into the public gaze. He was one of the pioneers of Al-Noor mosque. He cleaned it and took care of it. I never knew this until a scholarship student told me he had seen my father one afternoon with his sleeves rolled up, cleaning. He was vice president of the Islamic community in Christchurch. We never knew that either.

In our last phone conversation, I was worried about him. I thought, what if he were to die overseas, far away from the family who loved him?

In the end, God had his own plan for my father. He was buried in Madinah, the city of our beloved Prophet. I thank God for that.