My Qur'an, my prophet Muhammad, they say that I must protect these people who are my guests.
He looked directly at me to see how I would react; I looked back at him, shook my head, smiled and read my Qur'an as I patiently waited for someone to engage me in civil conversation.
This includes the Lebanese flag that used to hang in my bedroom, the "I LOVE LEBANON" t-shirts I gardened in, my prayer beads, scarves and carpets, my family photo albums, my Arabic coffee pots, cups and saucers, my Qur'an and its reading/display stand, and any framed art with Arabic script in it.
"It transported me back to my childhood," Han, who grew up in Taiwan, said of the experience.
As my colleague Han Shan documents in his thorough deconstruction of the company's allegations on Huffington Post, the whole "scandal" was nothing but a bizarre set up.
But I don't always place stock in the idea that my Qur'an provides me with information regarding an entity that the Qur'an itself tells me is beyond my comprehension.
"To see their smiling, proud faces, to see them really owning this character and this moment it brought tears to my eyes," Han wrote.
On the walls were graffiti written by German homosexuals: "Mein lieber Kamerad Franz, I am shut up here and you are far from me"; "Mein lieber Kamerad Hans, my life was happy when I was near you".
Hans, my activist guide, claims that half a dozen laws are being breached by Prospectiuni in their exploration operations, including ones that restrict testing being carried out too close to homes and others related to permits and trespassing.
My life as a Muslim, however, is not reducible to my sitting alone with the Qur'an in my house, trying to reconcile textual content to my personal needs.
