I went to Canada to attend the Montreal International Book Fair, leaving our good media busy with a murder case of a Lebanese singer. I came back only a week later to find the media busy with another murder case of the daughter of a Moroccan singer. As I had failed to understand the first crime due to the conflicting information that was printed about it, I by tried this time to understand the second crime. So I brought all the newspapers that came out during my absence so as to be abreast the important issues that happened in my country. And as I know everything about America's economic crisis that has affected the rest of the world, and the tragedy of the Gaza siege that has worsened recently, I felt I should also know about the latter crime in case people talked to me about it. My ignorance of the first case was saved by the Attorney-General when he issued a gag order for it. I wished that he would issue the same for the second case, given the similarities between them in the sense that both crimes were committed with a knife and that in both cases there were conflicting statements about the husband of the victim. But unfortunately, the Attorney-General this time let me down, and I was forced to revert to the newspapers to follow up the details.
So I read that the crime was motivated by revenge and not robbery, that the murderer cut the tongue of one of the victims, that he did not steal anything, that he was familiar to the victim because he did not break into the house and that the crime involved drugs. After collecting all that information, and after I finally felt I understood the case and can now talk about it with certainty, I read a few days later that the murderer was arrested, that he committed the crime to steal, that he was not familiar to the victim, that he forcibly broke into the house, that it had nothing to do with drugs and that the murderer did not have any reason to cut the victim's tongue. Here I felt that I have strong reasons and a strong wish to cut the tongues of many others.
