Why is this misunderstanding of Islam so widespread? Why does it claim tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Muslims who have joined jihad groups all around the world? Why is it preached in all too many mosques and subscribed to by Muslim clerics — men who have dedicated their lives to understanding Islam properly?

Why is the supposedly peaceful and benign Islam that Qamar Abbas presumably taught to Haris Qamar not able to withstand challenge from the shadowy computer figures who taught Haris a “twisted view of Islam”? Who are these people on the computer, and why are they so intent on propagating this twisted view of Islam? What are mosques and Islamic schools in the U.S. doing to try to counter the appeal of this twisted view of Islam?

Above all, why do U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials complacently accept this nonsense from people such as Qamar Abbas, instead of investigating his possible role, and that of the local mosque, in the evolution of the mindset of Haris Qamar?

“VA Father says son doesn’t understand Islam,” Associated Press, July 9, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann):