These tools can be used by Iranians fighting dictatorship, or by Tibetan dissidents trying to save their culture.

Some of them resembled charge sheets against the countries visited some contained unsubstantiated allegations made by political opponents.

Critics say the reforms could be used to intimidate political rivals and opposition parties in upcoming local and regional elections.

Feeling uncomfortable with this rationale, other opponents deny the religious nature of the dispute and make clear that theirs is not a quarrel with Islam.

When that doesn't work, when it turns out those people have all the same facts that we do and they still disagree with us, then we move on to a second assumption, which is that they're idiots.