Imagine this: You are at work, in the shops, on a bus. You overhear strangers maligning someone you don’t know. What do you do? Nothing?

Or this: You are at work, in the shops, on a bus. You overhear strangers maligning someone you cherish; your mother, your father, your husband, your wife. What do you do? Defend them? Set the record straight and demand an apology, even at the risk of causing a scene?

Why is that? Because, we want ‘respect’? Because right or wrong, no-one talks that way about our family? Or is it because we know what was said is untrue; and the truth about them is what causes us to love them and risk anything to defend them?  

Or how about this: You are at work, in the shops, on a bus. You overhear strangers maligning the Prophet Mu’hammad (P.B.U.H). What do you do?