Zarqa, I generally love your column and loved your sitcom.

But I'm missing something here as I believe most if not all your colleagues are missing: The votes against the cemetery may not have had anything to do with Islam, but the fact that so many people who have had fields in their backyards are now going to have a graveyard, together with the water run-offs associated.

Why have none of your colleagues polled those who voted against this proposal as to WHY they voted it down, rather than ASSUMING it was for anti-Islam sentiments?

Remember what they say about those who assume...