"'Bumping' this critical article and excellent resource. "
I agree.
For the future -- adding appropriate key words helps.
Add this to the war on terror topic AND add key words -- I added some that get used often, please see list, that way when people search on "muslim" or "islam" this article will come up also.
This man's genius is to have some books written that deconstruct Islam and it's contradictions. Its ability to hold two truths simultaneously because Muhammad was perfect and so was the Koran. His genius is to see (try this contradiction for example) how many times Jihad is presented as warfare and how many times it is presented as inner struggle.
And surprise of surprises, in the authoritative Bukari hadith the war mongering Islam gets 97% of mentions and the jihad of inner struggle gets 3%. The two faced game that clever Muslim imams will play on intellectually lazy and naive Westerners is to present Jihad as inner struggle. Another lie is to claim all Mohamed's battles were defensive. This too can be disproved by statistical analysis of Koran and Hadith. To count how many were really defense (actually few if any) But the Muslim fall back position is that Muhammad was the perfect man thus committed no aggression. He only wanted to defend his nascent community of "believers"