[SatinDoll]

“...what do you think is going on here?”

Self preservation. No way do U.S. or Canadian citizens want to live in the Middle East, even Muslim ones, under repressive regimes.

They may want everyone here to be Muslim, but I suspect they do not really want to live in a totalitarian Muslim regime.

[ZULU]

Makes sense to me. A mouthful of freedom is intoxicating. Once imbibed, one is reluctant to give it up.

[dools007]

In Middle East cultures lying is quite acceptable.