the response that DougJ got to his crazy question is a good example of a phenomenon that has been running rampant among rightwing commentators for the past nine years: a lot of them fancy themselves experts at "sharia" and yet they don't seem to understand that "sharia" isn't a single monolithic thing.
i mean, why would a "sharia expert" think that an egyptian sunni born in kuwait and an imam in the sufi tradition might subscribe to a doctrine that is pretty strictly limited to iranian shi'a, unless he didn't have a fucking clue?
