Sorry, I guess I should have caveated that "mainstream" means the majority of the people we'd deal with or have dealt with in the past 10 years (Iraq/ Afghanistan/ Pakistan, etc.) I have many Muslim friends in the western world that would not agree with these things because, of course, they have heard logical arguements against the thoughts and at the very least consider the possibility of them being correct. I would argue that western, educated Muslims are not the mainstream.
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