I apologize for being curt with you foremost. It's just that Zora is really getting on my nerves. And I know that she goes out emailing people to lobby support against me. On the contrary, I have never followed her (or anyone else) around picking fights. I'm only here to accomplish one goal: to puiblish and make known information that has been ignored, and to help others make informed decisions on who and what Shias and Iranians are. Once youve seen and felt the stereotype, then it hits you you so hard, you cant ignore it anymore: I see a vast gap of missing information about issues related to Shi'a and Iranian topics. Not that I defend them. In fact, I'm against some principle Shia doctrines. Same for Iran. But I also think that people should know their perspectives; they should know what Shias think, not what westerners think what Shias think. For someone like me who knows the background and history, the gap is startlingly evident. Unfortunately, Iranians are very hedonistic people in general. That's why you hardly find someone like me willing to put aside precious work time to volunteer to make known the unknown history and aspects of a culture that is increasingly under attack by the west, even if it's their own. OK, Im babbling again. But I just wish that people like Zora would lay off their selective assaults on me trying to present this badly needed information. She keeps driving me into this reactionary mode, and I dont appreciate that. My time is very very precious. I'm part of a reserach team that does research on novell MRI imaging methods. You can imagine what responsibilities I have. And yet a great considerable amount of my online time is spent on quarreling and debating, instead of fruitful contribution. That frustrates me a lot.  

 ::I'll add the references to those pages. Thanx again.