[Sola Veritas]

Iran will eventually fall out of the hands of "radicals" because there are many who still remember the Shaw of Iran, and were secularized and pro-Western. Plus, because Iranians are Persian (I notice you referenece this as "Cyrus the Great"), and not arab, they tend to be less fanatical.

You are needed in your homeland, not here. Words and rhetoric are cheap - speak by your actions.

I don't like being mean. However, don't try to defend Islam by condeming those that truly represent your "religon." This war on terror, regardless of what is said in D.C., is indeed a war on Islam, because Islam has declared war on the West.

[ElisabethInCincy]

Cyrus dont get me wrong i dont mean to be "disrespectful" .I do not respect islam that calls me a vile creature as a christian sura 98:6 . I have studied islam intensly for 3 yrs now ,reading day after day quran hadiths early islamic history so i think i pretty much know about your faith!. The thing that boggles my mind daily is men like yourself who seem to be great people can embrace and believe and respect someone like mohammad ? Im fet up with seeing my christian female friends being duped into this so called fraudulent islam by charming men not knowing what they are getting into. A Religion that demands if u leave u must be put to death Bukhari:V4B52N260 “Ali burnt some [former Muslims alive] and this news reached Ibn Abbas, who said, ‘Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet said, “Don’t punish with Allah’s Punishment.” No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet said, “If a Muslim discards his Islamic religion, kill him.”

ur’an 9:29 “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or the Last Day, who do not forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, or acknowledge the Religion of Truth (Islam), (even if they are) People of the Book (Christians and Jews), until they pay the Jizyah tribute tax in submission, feeling themselves subdued and brought low.” [Another translation says:] “pay the tax in acknowledgment of our superiority and their state of subjection.

So once again cyrus a belief system that wants me dead or humilated i have every right to question.

[cake_crumb]

"Words and rhetoric are cheap - speak by your actions."

Um...I would consider Farsi language television beamed out of the United States by Iranian Americans to be an action and part of a plan.