SOME (a few? half? most?) Iranians want a secular government. In particular, those who write books in English. ;)
This is like talking about US attitides to fudamentalist Christianity and leaving out the opinions of the fundamentalists. ;)
--- On Thu, 6/25/09, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> From: shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Tell them we are democrats (was: freedom to swim)
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 12:05 AM
> Doug has been needled for declaring
> that Iranians want to be "part of the world."
>
> The discussion disturbed me because I felt like,
> repeatedly, people were ignoring the obvious: they want a
> secular government.