Dialogue

The Iran's president while talking to an international audience invokes religious texts. The trend is so pervasive among muslim leaders that the US president Obama on his first visit to the middle east had to quote from religious texts. Yes all of us are who we are because of our backgrounds and religion plays a big part in it for most of us. But while communicating to a worldwide audience he needs to connect and he talks about things important to him that many people do not know anything about. He could well have been talking at home. So in dialogue connecting is important else you lose audience. Imagine if non muslim leaders around the globe talked about their religion every time they talked, it would feel strange. Muslim leaders have to play catch up in communicating.