(Maybe you should go and re-read the last few paragraphs of my piece, which a previous questioner referred to).
"He is right to apologise because, when people ask you questions, whatever you think of the questioner or the question, you have got to treat them with respect and give a straight answer".
The Academics took the part of the questioner, who puts questions to his interlocutors and deduces conclusions that are unwelcome to them from their answers.
But as one often does after flubbing a pregnant moment, I kept going over the scene in my mind, trying to formulate an answer worthy of the question and the questioner, something that convinced him I wasn't a fool".
"But why don't we just change the place, to show that Islam is not there to threaten everybody, that Islam is a religion of peace?" The questioner, of course, was referring to Mr. Abdul Rauf's proposed Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the former World Trade Center site.
They question the honesty of the questioner themselves.
On the level of the mysterious, the identity of the questioner is tied to the question and, therefore, the questioner is not interchangeable.
He realized that rationally and philosophically he could not question the reality of the questioner.
We propose 17 influential factors from 2 different perspectives: the content of the question, and the characteristics of the questioner.
In total, 851 questions were received from 460 different questioners, an average of 1.9 questions per questioner.
