The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said on October 1: Referendum is a logical solution to the Palestinian problem.
Overwhelming support has met Turkey's move to expel the Israeli ambassador from Ankara, while some wonder why Egypt isn't doing the same.
Large crowds of Israeli protesters have swarmed into the streets in three large cities for what the organizers have dubbed a million-man march.
Back-to-back bomb blasts ripped through one of the holiest cities in Shia Islam, killing at least 10 people in a community still reeling from a deadly bus hijacking earlier this month that left Iraq's Shias again feeling hunted.
So it is ironic that the recent civil disorder had nothing to do with Islam. It is ironic too that it has been an ordinary British Muslim, Tariq Jahan, who has most impressively embodied the spirit of social solidarity.