Iranian Madness

I really hope the world will start understanding that there is no such thing as the Great Islamic Nation. There are, instead, lots of different countries with very marked identity and extremely different cultural roots. Just like Christianity, Islam is too spread out to unify cultures (and islamists would argue that it’s not even supposed to).

It is therefore no surprise that the Islamic Solidarity Games, scheduled to take place in April 2010 in Iran, have been cancelled by the Saudi-based headquarters. The reason? the name of the Gulf between the Arabian peninsula and Iran. Is it Arabian, like the Arabs like to call it, or Persian, like the rest of the world has been referring to it for ages?

While we settle the dispute, let’s cancel the games altogether!