[classicman]

Silence is Important

The 55 years old taxi driver start his talking with a strange sentence. He said “the only winner in this country is the bachelor”. After a while, we started talking about the old days and I asked him like twenty questions about the life during the sixties and the seventies. After tens minutes of the heated discussion, I could reach the main point.

The man lost his son who was kidnapped in one of the western neighborhoods of Baghdad more than a year ago. The kidnappers called him through his son phone saying “are you Shiite or Sunni?” the man replied “Im only Muslim and I never thought about this matter” then the kidnapper told him “don’t you care about your son’s life? You have to answer me”. The man said “why should I care? He is now your prisoner. If you want to kill him, you will hold the responsibility and if you release him, it would be your responsibility. Allah will ask you for everything you do”