Consider (my emphasis):

> 
> But Muslims who call the Islamic State un-Islamic are typically, as
>  the Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, the leading expert on the
>  group’s theology, told me, “embarrassed and politically correct, with
>  ***a cotton-candy view*** of their own religion” that neglects “what their
>  religion has historically and legally required.”
> 
> 
> 

*(From "What ISIS Really Wants", The Atlantic, March 2015.)*

What does *a cotton candy view* mean?