* Usually, when wakademic ‘experts’ are trying to beautify Islam, it is simply a matter of following the money:  all too often one finds invitations to Islamic countries, prizes for this and that,  for being ‘a friend of such and such organization’,  we find earlier, colorful reports on how wonderful, how hospitable and how progressive this or that Moslem country is, and always, invariably, the “Islam cannot be blamed for terrorism”  apologies that stick to these wakademics like the odious ‘right wing’ label the media attaches to anyone who opposes the Islamic scourge.
Here we have a professor Philip Jenkins who shamelessly  puts lipstick on Sufism, something he obviously knows very little about. Instead of “speaking the language of peace, hope, and reconciliation and condemning terrorism”, there is nothing in Sufism that makes it different from mainstream Islam. The Sufi Koran is not peaceful and neither is their history. The Sufi’s support the jihad the same way the Sunni’s or the Shiites support the jihad, because that is the first and foremost obligation of the believers, as we can see here: Iraqi Sufis donate to Hamas, boast of jihad activity in Iraq
Sufi rising
For years, the Islamic revival has seemed to be a story of ever-growing fundamentalism and political extremism, but around the world, Sufi orders are rapidly gaining strength — in Turkey and Syria, Uzbekistan and Indonesia. Sufism is also growing quickly in Iran, as younger Muslims seek a liberal and liberating kind of spirituality utterly different from anything the ayatollahs can provide. In 1979, Iran had 100,000 Sufis; today, there may be 5 million.
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