...something was eating away at the faith of his grandfather, corroding and corrupting it, making it an ideology of narrowness and intolerance, burning books, persecuting thinkers, erecting absolutisms, turning dogma into a weapon with which to beat the undogmatic. That thing needed to be fought and to fight it one had to name it and the only name that fit was Islam. Actually existing Islam had become its own poison and Muslims were dying of it and that needed to be said...