In a recent notice on Jihad Watch in which Robert Spencer is touting his book and congratulating himself for owning the term "Islamophobe" in the context of juggling three things -- ridiculing that propaganda term; affecting to be one of the bestest, bravest, toughest Counter-Jihadists in the West; and virtue-signalling by distancing himself from the obviously white supremacist Richard Spencer -- he writes:
I want a society in which women, Jews, Christians, gays, secular liberals, and secular Muslims can live freely and without fear of being brutalized, victimized, or denied basic rights.
For those who don't know that Spencer for years has been subtly & deftly tap-dancing around his stance on the issue -- and that years ago, he got into lengthy arguments with Civilians in Jihad Watch comments (when Jihad Watch readers actually had the cojones to dare to disagree with their Fearless Leader) because they were dismayed by how Spencer, at the time, insisted that he is "not anti-Islam" and "not anti-Muslim" -- his casual listing of "secular Muslims" as though that were a viable demographic out there will not surprise (see my two essays on this -- ...damned if you do... and ...damned if you don't...).
I wonder how many Jihad Watch readers this time around caught Spencer's Mohammedan Slip...? Let's take a look, shall we...?
Well, I just reviewed the 39 comments. Good Lord, it's worse than I thought. 36 of those 39 completely ignore Robert Spencer's "secular Muslims" -- while the remaining three actually praise him for it.
And, of course, of the Jihad Watch regulars there -- including "gravenimage" who makes it a regular volunteer duty of hers to point out where commenters are right or wrong about many different points in the comments fields of probably most of the Jihad Watch articles over the years -- not one of them takes these brown-nosers (let alone, heaven forbid, the Grand Poobah himself) to task.
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