The Intercontinental Downtown Hotel lounge, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.  An interview of WE Blake by Professor
 Doris Longrood, Associate Professor of Theology, Marquette University, March 4, 2008. 

Doris Longrood:  I appreciate your willingness to meet with me, Mr. Blake.  Thanks for the information that you sent me.  It’s
 been very helpful. 

Whitman Eliot Blake:  Good, I’m glad it helped. 

Doris L:  I was pretty excited by your message to me, because you now seem willing to discuss the Blaketashi Darwishes in,
 how did you describe it? complete candor at this meeting.  Are you still willing to do that? 

WE Blake:  Of course.  We have nothing to hide. 

DL:  Perhaps, then, we can start out with your real name?  Certainly, you were not christened ‘Whitman Eliot Blake’ I
 assume? 

WEB:  Right to it, I see.  No, of course, WE Blake is my Blaketashi name.  My real surname is 'Widmer.' 

DL:  No offense intended, but I rather like ‘Blake’ better. 

WEB:  None taken.  Me too.  (The professor puts on a pair of reading glasses, and takes some notes from a manila envelope.) 

DL:  Mr. Blake, for many years, on Wikipedia.com, the origin of the Blaketashi Darwishes  was given as having been
 established over a hundred years ago, by Oxford professors.  About a year ago, the origins of the Blaketashis were removed
 from Wikipedia.  Why was it removed? 

WEB:  Well, it seems that Wikipedia finally realized that their published origin of the Blaketashis was complete rubbish.  About time. 

DL: (surprised) The Blaketashis are complete rubbish?  Are you telling me that they are made up?” 

WEB: I said that the legendary origins of the Blaketashi Darwishes are rubbish.  Not that Blaketashis are. Mostly. 

DL: So you were not founded by Oxford professors, then?

WEB:  We were not.   

DL:  (professor Longrood sat up straight) The published materials about your organization have always maintained at least the
  implication that you were an organization of significant age and founded by credentialed persons.  Don’t you feel as though
 you have been deceiving people all these years about your origins? 

 

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