Well, I appreciate that, @bsfmalaysia.
It seemed appropriate. Generally, I'm not someone who likes to bring in caveats and a bunch of reasons for why people do what they do, but as I've been going through middle age, there just seems to be more to the story than just what's on the surface. And trying to pick through the layers and get to the root of it has become important to me. I don't know if I came close to doing that here (being a Muslim is not my experience), but I kind of like to give people the benefit of the doubt until I know definitively otherwise. :)