Graeme Wood Quotes
The Islamic State's Ideology Exerts Powerful Sway Over A Certain Subset Of The Population. Life's Hypocrisies And Inconsistencies Vanish In Its Face. Musa Cerantonio And The Salafis I Met In London Are Unstumpable: No Question I Posed Left Them Stuttering. They Lectured Me Garrulously And, If One Accepts Their Premises, Convincingly. To Call Them Un-Islamic Appears, To Me, To Invite Them Into An Argument That They Would Win. If They Had Been Froth-spewing Maniacs, I Might Be Able To Predict That Their Movement Would Burn Out As The Psychopaths Detonated Themselves Or Became Drone-splats, One By One. But These Men Spoke With An Academic Precision That Put Me In Mind Of A Good Graduate Seminar. I Even Enjoyed Their Company, And That Frightened Me As Much As Anything Else.
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