Re: Ahmedinejad's letter
^^ The point is not one individual decision, it is the collective decisions of many Muslims to go live in the West that is a telling point. I believe that if Islamic rule is so compelling, that good Muslims would be flocking to Iran, particualarly Shia who are persecuted minorities in many countries.
My point is that the Mullahs of Iran have gotten a free pass from Muslims who are exercising the unwritten rule of "never criticize a Brother in public". Muslims as a group expect the West to behave well, and demand it, while they *expect *Muslims leadership to behave badly, and are resigned to that fact.
There are really only three reasons that Muslims are not allarmed by the prospect of the Mullahs of Iran getting Nuclear Weapons. First, they believe that a nuclear confrontation will never effect them. Second, they believe that the more Islamic states that have weapons, the more powerful Islam will become on the world stage. And Three, they relish the idea of Iran aiming a nuclear gun at Israel, naievely believing that this will have some positive effect, and that a nuclear launch could not really result.