[Revolting cat!]

I got through most of this diatribe by a (presumably) Jewish convert to Islam and a too-clever-by-half apologist for it. Unpersuasive. Corrections to the Benedict's scholarship petty and unimportant. Mr Schwartz needs to get out more on the Muslim street where the rest of them, including the muzzie "intellectuals", dwell. The piece reads like an antropology professor's, who's in love with his subject, strained apologetics.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I got through most of this diatribe by a (presumably) Jewish convert to Islam and a too-clever-by-half apologist for it."

Just yesterday I had a run-in with Schwartz in an Islamic (Sufi) chat room. He is indeed an arrogant, pompous ass, who thinks that somehow the MSM is utterly anti-Muslim, and that anyone who doesn't share his perspective or his knowledge of Islam is a benighted fool. Although not strictly a liberal, he truly embodies the liberal "I'm smarter than you" mentality.