I am glad this diary seems to work for a number of people here on ET, because as you say Aslan presents a very important perspective to inform our debates that deal with Islam and the Middle East. In particular I think it should remind us to think carefully about some of the assumptions being made about Iran at the moment.

(Strangely this diary seems to have risen again into the Recommended box. I guess that's an artifact of the small number of people who press the Recommend button, so if a couple more read it and hit the button, it rises like a zombie?)