A fact from Reshid Akif Pasha appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 September 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Ottoman statesman Reshid Akif Pasha(pictured) once said "I am ashamed as a Muslim"?
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"Ottoman statesman Reshid Akif Pasha]] once said 'I am ashamed as a Muslim'". This is derived from a single source - an article written by Robert Fisk. Robert Fisk is a journalist, not a researcher into Ottoman documents or Islamic religious dogma, and the claim in his article has no source. The meaning of this supposed feeling of "shame" is completely undefined. In a western context it implies a public admission of guilt or wrong doing requiring some sort of remedy (be it an apology, a change of behavior, or retribution, or some other form of penance) but in Islam there is no such thing as personal guilt or personal penance or concept of public admission of "shame", so I think this "ashamed as a Muslim" claim is as vague in its meaning as it is unattributed, and so should be deleted. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 19:12, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
