Did you read (or listen to) DCP's lectures on Islam, at various universities, when he was in Australia? If so, what do you think of them?
Well you might be surprised to know that he and I agree more than we disagree. He even emailed me once and said he thinks we are on the same page most of the time, but that he thinks I go to far sometimes.
I downloaded one of his talks in Australia last year and congratulated him on a job well done. I think I have a thread on my forum talking about this. I criticized him a bit for dodging important questions at the end of his talk. He would let absolutely absurd statements go by unchallenged. One student asked him some questions while providing his own assertions inbetween. He came right out and said Western Civilization is to blame for any Muslim terrorism that exists today. Dan didn't respond to that, and just ignored it while shaking his head in the affirmative as if everything this idiot just said was correct.
Where we disagree is when he tries to ignore what the majority of Islam believes in favor of some fringies who probably can't keep citizenship in their own Muslim homeland because the majority think they are apostate. Whenever someone points out traditional aspects of Islamic Law at MAD, you'll typically see Dan jump out of his skin to say, "That's not in the Quran!"
As if most Muslims care. He is playing to a Christian/Mormon crowd and he knows that we believe something has to be scriptural in order for it to be authoritative. But the same is not true in Islam, and he is never willing to share this important tid-bit of information. Once you realize the authority of the ahadith, his various "that's not in the Quran" apologetic is rendered moot.
And then you have his interpretations of the Quran that do not necessarily bode with the majority of Islamic jurists. But he doesn't tell you that either. He wants you to essentially believe that he knows Islam better than most Muslims do.
Just because it isn't explicit in the Quran doesn't mean it isn't Islam. One of the five pillars of Islam, for example, is not based in the Quran at all. It is based in the ahadith which is where much of the problematic aspects of Islam derive.
Kevin, I started posting on the FAIR board not long before you had broken the camel's back.
DCP being the camel, no doubt.
Your diatribes against Islam were embarrassing. As I recall you were called for confusing extremist Muslims with the religion of Islam.
You recall incorrectly, as you usually do. I was called out for embarrassing the resident expert on his subject of expertise. Can't get any more embarrassing than that, and the mods were going ape-s*** over this trying to figure out what to do with me; a lowly apologist refuting their God of apologetics. Dan could not respond to direct questions so he pitched a fit, attacked me directly, accused me of bigotry, misrepresented what I actually argued and then hid behind the moderators while pretending to be innocent. Every attempt I made to correct Dan's misrepresentation of my arguments, were immediately deleted.
But every once in a while he'll bring up my name, now that he is safe in the knowledge that I cannot post there to challenge his erroneous claims.
I mean just for starters, he supports Brian Hauglid when he says jihad was rarely agressive and "always defensive." The funny thing is that DCP will turn around and recommend Bernard Lewis. Bernard Lewis rejects this claim as complete and utter nonsense. Lewis goes on record in saying it was frequently offensive and almost always aggressive.
Anyway...