@rezaaslan @gcaw @TheAtlantic its a really weak article as misses corpus of Muslim scholarly work... Pick & choose and u can build any case

@amadshk @gcaw @TheAtlantic that was indeed a huge weakness of article bc it focused singularly on one scholar's opinions

@rezaaslan @gcaw not saying it was intentional. Imagine basing all Christianity on lords Salvation Army & 1 Muslim scholar of Christianity

@amadshk @rezaaslan @gcaw imagine pretending the Crusaders weren't Christians

.@NateWatkins @rezaaslan @gcaw that's not the point. Imagine saying crusaders were the only true Christians...

@amadshk @rezaaslan @gcaw that is the point. The US President denies they are even Muslims.

@NateWatkins @rezaaslan @gcaw you obviously didn't get the point. As a Muslim, the piece is to tell me how I have been duped on Islam

@rezaaslan @gcaw @TheAtlantic Uhh...if Islam doesn't exist is there an ISIS? By definition it has a responsibility for it.

@CommonBrad @rezaaslan Ha! ISIS wouldn't exist in the absence of oxygen, either, but we don't blame oxygen.

@gcaw @CommonBrad @rezaaslan that's ridiculous. Is this the same brilliant writer who wrote that piece?

@goosegill @CommonBrad @rezaaslan easy point: even essential things are not causal in a simple way.

@gcaw @goosegill @CommonBrad @rezaaslan Surely Islam is responsible for ISIS the same way socialism is reaponsible for the Red Brigades?

@Atticus_Amber @goosegill @CommonBrad @rezaaslan "responsible" is just such a slippery word. Suffice to say Red Brigades were ... red.

@rezaaslan @gcaw @TheAtlantic if being motivated by something you follow incorrectly makes IT responsible, what's your solution to/for IT?

@mahdiahmad @rezaaslan @gcaw @TheAtlantic ISIS follows Muhammad as closely as anyone

@NateWatkins @rezaaslan @gcaw @TheAtlantic Muhammad forbade burning alive people. How's burning alive a person following Muhammad? #idiot

@mahdiahmad @rezaaslan @gcaw @TheAtlantic I said as close as anyone. Where do you think they get the ideas of mass slaughter?

@NateWatkins @rezaaslan @gcaw @TheAtlantic uhm, the Bible? Have you read it lately, esp. the OT? In Islam, we can't kill innocents.

@mahdiahmad @rezaaslan @gcaw @TheAtlantic infidels aren't innocent. You proved my point by referencing the Bible. Crusaders followed it too.

@NateWatkins @rezaaslan @gcaw @TheAtlantic if the Quran allows us 2 marry "infidels",how can we be enemies 2 our own spouses? #Islamophobia