A Civilian in the Counter-Jihad, commenting on a Jihad Watch article about how the recent London Tube bomber was known by the police who did nothing about him, expresses a typical plaint:
The people of the West have to regain the pride in themselves, they have so much doubt in their culture and losted their beliefs. The PC has been hammer[ed] into them by the MSM and their so call[ed] leaders for too long.
Implying that PC MC is some external force inflicted by the Dastardly Elites on Ordinary People. This commonly held trope in the Counter-Jihad Mainstream reinforces a complex misunderstanding of the Problem of the Problem (where the primary problem is, of course, Islam, and the secondary problem of that problem is the West's persisting myopia about Islam). This secondary problem is predominantly a complex sociocultural & psychological phenomenon of a gradual paradigm shift in worldview over the past one or two centuries, resulting in the mainstream dominance of PC MC throughout the West, including almost every damn body (even, I've found to my irritation, among many in the Counter-Jihad itself).
Since the main point of the Counter-Jihad is to wake up the broader Western Mainstream from its Rip Van Winkle snooze; and since the best way to wake it up is to know what it's actually doing and why; such fundamental misunderstanding will not help.
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