and the biggest give away: he does not know the Qur'an Kareem; he cannot even recite a surah shareefa properly; the same is the case with Hamza Yusuf; Allah Ta'ala has kept these devils away from the Qur'an Majeed; The Qur'an Kareem does not pass the throats of these pretenders; they are the other side of wahabism;
this is the biggest give away of these cults of zanadiq.
just have a look at their focus on the Quran - by any angle - tajweed, tafseer, recitation, memorization, whatever.
Allah has deprived these people of the Quran.
pull out any random "sidi" from any such cult, be it tahir, or nazim, or keller, or faraz, or hanson, or jifry - and you will see that these people are repelled by the Quran
just as pigs are happiest in dirt and muck, these zanadiq are happiest when they are away from the Quran.
they can philosophize about the finer points of the historical backdrop of Al-Ghazzali's Ihya or the adab of Imam Karkhi towards his teachers, all week long, but this is only a sham and a cover up. like bats flee from sunlight, these zanadiq too flee from the Quran and any hadith or any issue of ghayrah of Islam, and this is proof that they use the names of great scholars only for pretense.
even amongst Arab zindiq shaykhs and dirty hippy mureeds, people like jifry can carefully and calculatingly rattle off the awrad of the ba 3Alawis or some selected ahadith or certain ahadith deliberately slaughtering the context, but there's pin drop silence on any and all matters of ghayrah, even if you directly mention verses like this in front of them.
shameless zanadiq like jifry will then bring in imaginary contexts and philosophical explanations and say that we are supposed to love his christian brothers. (dig his videos on youtube)
they are the other side of wahabism;
the minute you mention the Quranic verses to these followers of dajjals, they say you are behaving just like the literalist wahabis. the idiots don't realize that wahabis misuse the verses of the Quran to make takfir of Muslims.
these dirty hippy zanadiq defiantly ignore the Quran's verses like the one above or cook up batil contexts to justify their kufr and make brothers out of christians and jews.
you are very right.
the Quran does not go down the throats of the khawarij, but it applies equally to all mubtadi3is.