Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
Anyway, back on theme, it seems Abbot the prime minister has endorsed my analysis and described the Iranian variously as unstable, riven with infatuation and a criminal who sought to cloak his actions in ideology.
anything, absolutely anything so long as no offence is given or a smidgin of suspicion placed on a primitive ideology that has for years preached violent action against western culture.
Well, apart from a few Paki preachers spouting their drivel from the safety of their British pulpits, a fatwa or two from Iran and medieval drivel proposed by a bunch of old men in some ghastly third world shithole, most orthodox Muslims the world over the past 30 years or so just proselytise from the Quran and are content to tend to their flock.

They as a religion do not pester unbelievers and certainly don't knock on one's door when one is sleeping after a night shift to talk about your fucking soul and how it will be saved if you hand over a tenth of your salary.

Certainly, when I have been gadding about in Muslim countries I have never experienced anything other than respect, courtesy and hospitality. Taxi drivers are fuckers but then that profession does transcend all known ethical boundaries most places.
I think you are just quibbling about fundamentalism and its associated influence upon the political landscape that may prevail. Well, that concerns many Muslims too and they have to deal with it. To cast them all in the same light as the more extreme sects is just intellectual laziness.