this line about the "perversion of islam". it's been recycled. it's corbyn that's using it now.

maybe corbyn would like to explain to me which school he studied islam in, if he's so convinced that isis is such a perversion of it?

listen: i get the point. most muslims aren't intent on world domination, or at least not for most of the week. it's just buried in their psyche, as code, waiting to be turned on, manchurian-like. it's a substantive difference, i don't disagree.

but, when you say that isis is a perversion of islam, you mean a perversion of what, exactly? the absurdly revisionist brands of islam that most muslims follow nowadays? because to use an analogy that most people can understand, that's like arguing that the evangelists in the united states are a perversion of anglicanism - which isn't even a coherently formed thought.

the brand of islam that isis promotes may be very different than the kind that most muslims prefer. but, it is in truth much closer to the source of the religion, as a brainwashing tool of a warrior cult.

....and the reality is therefore that it is actually more accurate to argue that the moderate forms are the perversion on the fundamental ideas that the religion initially expressed.

i would prefer the term fundamentalist muslim, fully aware of the difficulties with it.

to suggest they're not muslims makes him sound like he's pandering, and flatly foolish.