[goldstategop]

Iran is older than the 7th Century. It gnaws at the Shiite clergy that Iran's heritage is older than Islam and much of it is glorious.

[Cronos]

Bump! You ought to speak to a Zoroastrian (the 'Magi') which was the original religion of Persin and whose dualistic nature influenced Manicheanism. I'm glad to see Persia returning to it's roots and shaking off the yoke

[browardchad]

Iran is older than the 7th Century. It gnaws at the Shiite clergy that Iran's heritage is older than Islam and much of it is glorious.

While true in the historical sense, it is neatly overcome by the Islamic insistence that the Koran mystically preceded the Bible, the Torah, human history and, I'm sure, creation itself.

Islam provides irrational solutions and convenient historical revision for all rational or factual arguments, which, of course, makes it a the ultimate tool for despots, terrorists and wild-eyed Ayatollahs.