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Kitaro menarik nafas lega kerana melihat puluhan ribu umat Islam berhimpun di Masjid Wilayah pada 23 Julai (semalam) menyatakan sokongan kepada perjuangan mempertahankan Islam di Malaysia. Kelegaan itu juga bertambah kuat apabila ada juga rakan non-Muslim (Charles Hector) yang menulis di dalam Malaysiakini menyatakan sokongan kepada umat ISlam yang hak mereka dicabul atas nama hak asasi khususnya dalam penilaian beliau berkenaan isu serban. Antara komen beliau:

"I cannot see how the wearing of a headgear, be it a turban or a serban or a ketayap, would in any way infringe on or violate the rights of any other student in the school. I cannot see how a serban would in any way affect the education of these three students, or the education of the other students.

These three students may not probably be able to join certain uniformed bodies, or maybe even take part in certain sporting activities which require a naked head but other than that it would, in all probability, not in any way affect their education or their development.

It also seems that this school regulation and the ministry's circular came into being after these students were already in school for several years. Therefore, logically and reasonably, I do not see why a student is not allowed to wear this headgear or any other headgear which they believe their religion (or even their cultural practice) requires of them."

Di akhir tulisannya, beliau menyatakan;

“The question remains as to whether justice was done for these three children who were expelled because they did not want to remove their serban, a headgear they wore because they believed their religion required them to do so.”

Tetapi kelegaan itu hanya sementara. Rupanya masih ada segelintir umat Islam yang masih bergaduh dan berdebat menegakkan hujah masing-masing dalam isu serban. Bila ada seorang ustaz menulis pendiriannya (mungkin bersama partinya) berkenaan isu serban, maka muncullah beberapa insan yang mengutuk tulisan beliau dan juga memaki parti gerakan Isla, yang disertai beliau.

Kitaro tidak menolak sebarang diskusi intelek yang sudah pasti membantu percambahan ilmu. Tetapi biarlah ia beradab dan lebih baik jika masa yang diperuntukkan untuk mengutuk gerakan Islam sebagai 'parti kekurangan isu', 'golongan bekerja bukan kerana agama', parti berpura-pura dsb, digunakan bagi mengkaji hujah menangkis hujah-hujah pejuang IFC / Kumpulan 11.

Kalau beginilah keadaannya, tidak perlulah mana-mana Muslim meratap, menangis dan berteriak kerana kedudukan Islam yang tersungkur menjelang Wawasan 2020 dan umat Kristian yang bertepuk tangan kerana kemenangan menjulang Lina Joy!