[KellyAdmirer]

The entire middle east was Christian-led for hundreds of years under the Romans/Byzantines, a fact few ever mention because there is no "Byzantine lobby." Under the peculiar reasoning of the region, where former occupation supposedly = right to current domination, Christians have as much right to rule everywhere from London to Basra as anyone else, Muslims or Jews or pagans or whatever.

[freedom44]

Actually the Persian empire was Zoroastrian, hence the reference in the last sentence.

Zoroastrians--a very tolerant peoples who got savagly murdered by the Arabic tribes.

Course they did "Islamize Iran", but they were never able to "Arabized Iran"... Iran remains one of the only non-arabs countries in the Middle East.