What maple leaf is Red other than a dying maple leaf? (-- a Jihad Watch reader)
Perusing the comments field of another Jihad Watch article this morning with this headline -- Canada: Man jailed for “no more Muslims” graffiti -- as I sip my triple-moderate jihadaccino served up by a barrista terrorista at a local Starbucks, I wondered whether any of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream civilians commenting there (including the veterans of the Rabbit Pack) would remember their fixation on how the problem is Islam, not Muslims.
Naturally, none did. It was almost as though they had never staunchly defended that flawed, incoherent trope for years, often attacking me (when I used to swim along with the rest of the school of fish in Jihad Watch comments threads) for unpacking the ill logic of it in favor of the more coherent (but less Politically Comfortable) anti-Muslim position.
One of their incoherencies being their implied assumption that the West can "ban Islam" (or, even more preposterously, simply make Islam a social pariah in the West) while leaving the millions of Muslims already here (and the millions more likely to arrive while the Western Mainstream is stubbornly resisting the slightest hints of anything remotely critical of Islam) intact and in possession of all their legal rights we accord them.
