User talk:David Nicolson Freidberg

Shah
Hi, I am not a follower of Shah and have never been a member of any of his groups, but I do respect his writings. An observation: your section on Shah is from an academic perspective is very biased. You use words like "exploiting" and "marketed".

Unsourced sentences like "A cult of personality has surrounded Idries Shah from the outset." would not be accepted on Wikipedia - is that what passes for scholarship in Religious Studies? Or maybe one of your citations just didn't transfer. How else to explain the statement that "One defector from the group estimated that there are between 1,000 to 3,000 members in America" - at what period? Who was that anyway?

To be clear, you have a right to your opinion, I am just surprised that this was considered acceptable for a Masters thesis. This interests me because I have considered going into religious studies...

Note: I didn't read your whole thing, just the part on Shah, so I don't know the context.

--Chinawhitecotton 05:33, 28 July 2006 (UTC)