So, why bring up Sufism? Why does he open with a reference to it? We are supposed to think the inmate and his freaky fantasies are somehow related to it? They’re not.
To point out that mysticism and folk beliefs are not alien to other sects/schools of Islam and that Sufism is no silver bullet to dealing with Jihad like some in the West think.
And I don’t see the article begin with a reference to Sufism.