In past two days, I have received thousand of feedbacks from Muslims around the world (pro & con) to my @nytopinion piece on #HagiaSophia.

It all boils down to a fundamental question:

To the world, in the name of Islam, do we want to show more #power or more #virtue?

Surely, we need power - like everyone else - to live in security & dignity.

But we need to live and exemplify virtue, too: values like tolerance, forbearance, pluralism.

If yearning for power overcomes virtue, I am afraid we will neither serve Islam nor help our selves.

So we need to decide what we really need to glorify.

Is it "conquest"? Or "co-existence"?

Is it the supremacy of Islam? Or is it equal justice & freedom for all?

And if we ask for the latter when we are a minority, where is the virtue in rejecting it when we are a majority?