re: #74 stabby

I gave Spencer too much benefit of the doubt.

He likes the company he hangs out with. He makes his money selling bad books to bigots.

But I’ve long thought he wasn’t very bright, ever since he was so clumsy that he called moderate Muslims heretics or frauds just because he was too inarticulate to express that extremism is mainstream in less harmful way.

What’s all the more ironic - at least to me - is that by calling moderate Muslims ‘heretics’ or ‘frauds’, he’s doing the exact same thing that Islamic fundamentalists/extremists do.

I’ve had a fundie tell me to my face that because I’m a student of Sheikh Nazim of the Naqshibandi Order, that I’m a heretic. I politely informed him at that juncture that he was in no place to decide who was a heretic or not; I did however helpfully suggest that perhaps he should call God on his mobile phone, as obviously he had God’s private number, seeing as how he was speaking to Him everyday, and we could get His authoritative opinion on the matter.

What shut him up was not my mockery, but rather everyone else in the mosque laughing at him.