Analyst's note:  This report calls into question the claims of Islam as a universal "religion on peace."

Somehow he doesn't see the uprisings as a flowering of Western-style democracy and pluralism. Perhaps Nicholas Kristof or Reza Aslan should jet over to Tehran and straighten this guy out. "Cleric: Regional Nations Seeking to Revive Islam, Religious Populism," from the Fars News Agency, September 16:

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami underlined the Islamic nature of the current popular uprisings in the region, and added that the regional nations are in pursuit of "Islamic values and religious populism".[....]