A FRIEND started a dialog with me through an SMS with all its abbreviations which, if translated, reads like this: How do you think the Prophet Muhammad would react, if he were alive now, to the furor over his caricature?

I replied somewhat casually: Hell also be annoyed and ask that it be thrown away. Apparently he wanted something. Why dont you write a column and make it an opener?

Not suitable, I replied. Because the P