These scholars of Islam, who devoted their entire lives to the subject, never made the mistake of relying merely on personal interchanges with Muslim interlocutors, for they understood, as all who have had experience in Muslim countries or with Muslims outside those countries comes to understand, Muslim apologists are extraordinarily adept at turning on the charm to Westerners wanting to "find out" all about Islam, and well versed in every kind of taqiyya and tu-quoque, and in presenting demisemihemiquavering fractions of fractions of truths, reflected through prisms that bend or refract crazily (see Snell's Law) the occasional beam of truth, and that in the end leave that Western inquirer quite convinced that he has been wrong, that Muslim apologists have a point, and the Western skeptics and "detractors" are far too severe.
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