"Barista-terrorista, I'm allergic to raisins, and there are clearly at least 4 raisins in this cinnamon scone......"

I was pleased to see a post by Cinnamon Stillwell featured on Jihad Watch this morning -- she's a writer who (notwithstanding her occasional asymptotic raisins) deserves a wider audience (and years ago I put her on my blogroll over at The Hesperado).

Her piece on Jihad Watch involved a Good Cop Muslim (defined as such because he would easily fool the broader Western Mainstream, but not the Counter-Jihad Mainstream), an academic named Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, senior lecturer in history at King’s College London, invited to deliver his taqiyya to a select Harvard audience.  As Cinnamon Stillwell reports it and mostly ably analyzes it, his lecture at Harvard was an exercise in Equivalencism and Tu Quoque -- more specially, the claim that "Islamophobia" is equivalent to anti-Semitism, and that both are in effect racism.

The raisins in the otherwise scrumptious & nutritious cinnamon scone Stillwell served up may be spotted in this sentence of hers:

Never once did Zia-Ebrahimi address the reality of such practices within Islam, nor the fact that Islamists advocate Islamic supremacism and are implacably hostile to Europe – seen as Christendom. In his eagerness to whitewash all things Islamist, Zia-Ebrahimi ignored the multiple terrorist attacks throughout Europe and the often-contorted Western reaction to Islamist aggression.

That's three raisins.  And, after I carefully extracted them out of my cinnamon scone with my fork, I almost bit into one more after I thought I was in the clear:

That Harvard would host an Islamist apologist masquerading as a champion of virtue exposes the intellectual weakness, duplicity, and true intents of scholars who charge their opponents with “Islamophobia.”

If the "Counter-Jihad" doesn't stop using these dysphemisms that have the effect of reinforcing our reflexes to exonerate Islam itself by locating the problem in some other entity ("Islamism", "radical Islam",  "political Islam", etc.), we will be failing in our ultimate duty to wake up our West to the problem of all Muslims in diverse ways enabling their Islamic imperative to conquer the world.