It didn’t require a deep immersion into the texts of Islam to come to my conclusions. In fact, once I learned a few facts about Islam’s founder Muhammad, and double checked those facts to verify I wasn’t reading misrepresentations of his violence and the atrocities he committed during his lifetime — the fog began to clear, and the motives of both the Jihadis, and the so-called “moderate majority” of Muslims, ALL of whom wish to see Islam dominate became very clear.
Exactly. I don’t care what the Muslim doctrine states beyond what it states with regard to non-Muslims. As a non-Muslim, this is all that matters to me and it is undeniable that of all the major world religions, Islam has the biggest problem with those who are not within its fold.
Now, one thing I do know about Islamic doctrine outside of its statements regarding non-believers is that Muslims say that to consider God as being one person in a trinity is blasphemous. Now, theologians can argue this point until the cows come home and I, like Mr. Derbyshire, will happily go off to do something else while that debate occurs. But, I’ll just as happily point out when Muslims lie to us about how their religious doctrine treats those they consider infidels, because that does matter to me, whereas the doctrine about whether the concept of the Trinity is blasphemous does not and I just happened to pick up that knowledge of Islamic doctrine in the course of learning about what they think of me as a non-Muslim.
