We Need to Talk About Islam’s Jihadism Problem

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28. The presenter of this video said something quite asinine (@3:00+)

"if you want to know about Islam, ask a Muslim"
By the same token:
"if you want to know about Nazism, ask a Nazi"
"if you want to know about Maoism, ask a Mao"
"if you want to know about Christianity, ask a Crusader"

Islam, as it is understood today thanks to billions of petrodollars invested in a literalist reading, is currently imperialistic. Most muslims today will give a far more narrow minded than -say- the mutazilas would have in the 8th to 10th century.

But I doubt the presenter of this video even knows who the mutazilas were.

The movement emerged in the Umayyad Era, and reached its height in the Abbasid period. After the 10th century, the movement declined. It is viewed as heretical by some scholars in modern mainstream Islamic theology for its tendency to deny the Qur'an being eternal, and to allow for the possibility of free will and thus opposing the strict determinism of mainstream thought. In contemporary jihadism, supposed allegations of being a mu`tazili have been used between rivalling group as a means of denouncing their credibility.