Each faithful and rational Muslim has to question the intentions of who behead hostages [in Iraq] do. The aim of these actions is distorting the image of Arabs and Muslims. For me this is tarnishing the image of Islam, which is the spiritual source for Islamic presence in this world.


At the same time, there are intellectual, political and media campaigns aimed at tarnishing the image of Islam and depicting it as “the source of evil,” and the “source of violence.” It seems like tarnishing the image of Islam is the shared mission of those who corrupt the earth and those who hate Islam.