If you're going to attempt to smear me by quoting a brief snippet of a mammoth post at the end of this thread so that people will react only to the snippet, at least quote the whole sentence:
I can't feel sorry for the guy, because even if it all happened exactly the way he said, including the vague "he thinks they struck him with a metal object" he's essentially OK, if a little shaken.
I really don't care about your 'because'. I am as skeptical as you are about the incident, and have said so. However, if it happened as he said it did, then it's appalling. This is not Iran; nobody deserves to be beaten by religious goons because somehow he's offended them.