Over the years, and increasingly (it seems) recently, Jihad Watch has had quite a few guest columns from irregulars. Sometimes (like for example with a Joshua Winston or Nicolai Sennels) they contribute many articles from time to time; other authors only seem to contribute once.
Like this one:
"From Disillusioned Muslim to Christian Arab Zionist" by Rami Dabbas.
Sounds good so far (though one must keep one's guard up).
But wouldn't you know it, he has to type stuff in his first paragraph that sound fishy:
My name is Rami Dabbas. I was born in 1989 in what is now the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, to a non-practicing Muslim Arab father and a Russian mother. When I was three years old, we moved to Jordan, and I was raised in a non-religious home.
A "non-practicing Muslim" father in Kazakhstan? Sure, there may well exist those; but we need to know more to explain this, which of course Rami doesn't provide. And raised in Jordan "in a non-religious home"? Ditto. (And he even throws in a mention of a "Buddhist center" in Amman, Jordan).
What's being subtly telegraphed here is how there supposedly exists a vaguely amorphous demographic of effectively non-Muslim Muslims.
But is there such a demographic on a large enough scale to make a difference to the metastasizing problem of Islam around the world?
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