Fascinating: you couldn't make it up! Have been away reading the FULL article written by Australian Ray Harris whose first section The Tapestry of Islam was the formed part of DTC's excellent post (for which thanks, DTC). I agree with everything Harris has to say! YES! Everything! To put it another way, by the skewed "standards" of some AB patsies (yes, you know who you are) the "authority" DTC quotes (apparently to prove himself an expert and me an ignorant and uninformed b-ser ) is himself an Islamophobe.
As SP professes himself a lover of rational discourse, a seeker of facts and solicitous for truth (and most other honourable and decent things) maybe he would care to read the article himself. If you can't find time in between all those interviews you conduct to read it all, SP, I'll happily provide a précis of of its main arguments. Please let me know, there's a good boy.
Meanwhile I will prepare a post with some of Harris' more cogent attacks on modish mind-mash Patsyism.
DO you have any suggestions, DTC? Which bits would cause you and your friends the biggest discpmfort and mine (if I have any) the biggest amusement?
This is the link:
http://www.integralworld.net/harris23.html
Thank you, Shaney Star for tracking DTC's source down.
Here's only a very mild taster:
"This is where many in the West have been fooled. They grab onto to the term moderate Muslim as if the 'moderate' in question believes the same sort of things a moderate Westerner might. This is often far from the truth. Many moderate Muslims are very conservative by Western standards. So much so that the term moderate is next to useless. It is a Western term that has little bearing on the reality of Islamic politics.".
Love the use of the word "fooled".
DYOR, eh. Well said, SP!