as opposed to...
Many non-Muslims know very little or nothing about Islam and depend on hearsay, which is usually repulsive and distorted information... They think that what they hear and what they are told about Islam is the truth.
So which is it mufti? Do your opponents know they are lying about islam or not?
What I find unbelievable is an arab paper can print the pronouncements of an acknowledged leader, who clearly has the intellectual sophistication of a fourth grader (logically, both his assertions can't be true), but the West is guilty of bigotry if we point out the arab culture is being driven by people who are idiots.
For all his operational sophistication, it never seemed to occur to bin Laden our people wouldn't fall into the "kill them all, let God sort them out" as his would. So he murdered several thousand people, accomplished exactly none of his goals, and muslims all over the world think he's "all that."
How can people so individually intelligent be so collectively stupid?
I wish that were true...I suggest it is collective delusion.