“Interesting that he thinks it is against Muslims,”
I went to college with about 30 Iranians, who I got to know very well. They walk around looking like us (to a large degree). Many spoke good English. They liked the same foods, smoked the same cigarettes, drank the same liquor. (Yes, all of that was against their religion, I know.) But when you listened to them talk and thought about the thinking that led to the words they spoke, you realized they lived in a bizarre world with no discernible logic to it. The CIA controlled the KGB and the Shah’s secret police, as well as the New York Times and everything else imaginable. Then, their “logic” could, in the same sentence, twist back on itself so that the beginning and end of the same sentence were mutually exclusive. It was as if they’d concentrated all the crazy street people into their heads. One of them was pathologically afraid of the word “divorce.” Since he would be divorced if he said the word three times, he didn’t know if they had to be said in a row or if the effect was accumulative. When I asked what it would matter if it was not his intention to divorce, he winced and asked me not to say the word as when I did he said it in his mind. He said that Allah would know he’d said it to himself. That was just a mild example that springs to mind. The rest were so convoluted I couldn’t remember their logic as it was sensless. So, an Iranian can call the Saudi’s (sworn enemies of Iran, BTW) “treacherous.” But we have no idea what he thinks that word means.
“I went to college with about 30 Iranians”
They all drove Trans Ams where I went college! And they all had their porn.
In short, they're a lot like leftists, no?
Michener’s novel about the Middle East, can’t remember the name, talked about the Arabs being notoriously un-trustworthy because they lie so freely. In WWII they couldn’t be counted on as Alies, even the sources. Perhaps what you say about their use of language helps explain.
Are they brainwashed?