...”The hard-core muslim mindset is not amenable to scientific ideas or reasonable questions “....
If they’re attending Mosque and read the Koran they are hard core but ‘pretend’ to be otherwise in the US and other nations they use as host.
And the mindset ‘could not’ be “amenable to scientific ideas or reasonable questions” under Islam....not possible with the stronghold on their thinking...if they think at all...Most are wired emotionally above all else.
Bingo! And that’s what the writer says as well.