abcd types have the most to lose. and between des and pardes they are not few. desi muballighs' and scholars' calling this lot 'eduacted / muslim intelligentsia / intellectuals ' doesn't help either.
https://sandala.org/products/shakespeare-and-islam#.Umt4bXAwqrd do note that according to his own website, this has been his temperament since 2004 at least (despite being a die-hard martin lings associate, he denies being a perennialist!). so it's not a case of a good scholar going bad. he always has been working on an agenda to change our condition! in the past, he might have experimented with just how much heresy he can get away with, and when he saw he faces little to no retribution, decided to proceed on turbo - such is my opinion.
