Thanks for fighting the good fight buddy!
You're alreadyed noted the limitations of twitter as a debating platform, but I'd be really eager to expand upon what you already have brought up... the notion of a particular stand of Islamism being responsible for most of the intolerance and terrorism being espoused by Muslims today.
As to Iran, people forget the people of that nation are a lot more free than in many, if not most, other Middle Eastern states. The whole reason why Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad are constantly playing the death to America card is because public opinion MATTERS in that country, and the majority of people in the Middle East really do despise the West. Anyone with a casual knowledge of the history of the reigon for the last hundred years or so will know why. Other Arab "stong men" like to limit their polemics against the west for reasons of realpolitic, and only drum it up when they need to shore up popular support.
You're alreadyed noted the limitations of twitter as a debating platform, but I'd be really eager to expand upon what you already have brought up... the notion of a particular stand of Islamism being responsible for most of the intolerance and terrorism being espoused by Muslims today.
As to Iran, people forget the people of that nation are a lot more free than in many, if not most, other Middle Eastern states. The whole reason why Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad are constantly playing the death to America card is because public opinion MATTERS in that country, and the majority of people in the Middle East really do despise the West. Anyone with a casual knowledge of the history of the reigon for the last hundred years or so will know why. Other Arab "stong men" like to limit their polemics against the west for reasons of realpolitic, and only drum it up when they need to shore up popular support.
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
