CNN’s Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs, Octavia Nasr, has supposedly resigned from her job after an unfortunate tweet that came back to her like a boomerang. Nasr tweeted about her regrets regarding the death of one of the Hezbollah leaders, Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, credited as one of the founders of the movement. But there’s a slight little problem and quite a big dillema if resignation or firing is actually the measure that should have been taken. It’s about rights, after all. Human rights.

You cannot actually believe that a tweet saying “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot” is actually reffering to a huge respect to a terrorist leader. 140 characters are not enough to make you draw a conclusion. And mistakes were made on both sides.

Octavia Nasr’s mistake is that she didn’t follow-up her tweet explaining why she respected Fadlallah so people understand right away. She has mistaken by misjudging that everyone knows Fadlallah’s philosophy about letting and helping women raise from the Islamic closed circle of prejudice. Well, sorry to disapoint, I had no idea about that and I think to myself as a pretty informed individual, always intrested in what’s new.

Writing an explanation on the CNN blog is actually a bit too much. One more tweet was enough. Still, we have the other problem, the one which conflicts with the liberty of free belief (I guess it’s called like this). To judge a journalist – and more than that, a Senior Editor – for a short 140 characters tweet is stupid and only means people are more superficial than they admit they are.

Yes, Octavia Nasr was wrong to stick to only one tweet instead of following up with the second. But from that to resigning and claiming that she lost her credibility, that’s just stupid. She has the liberty to admire anyone she wants and no one can take that from her. But you cannot accuse her of almost being a terrorist lover only because she admired only some of the good qualities of a… well, not quite a good man. So, please try to sepparate good from bad when you start judging someone.