Yet another random stabbing by a Muslim, this time in Ireland, as reported at Jihad Watch. And, naturally, authorities of the broader Western Mainstream say there is "no link to terrorism".
As Robert Spencer editorializes on this, he unwittingly puts his foot in his mouth:
Quoting the mainstream Irish news source, RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) -- “Gardaí have said they have found no established link to indicate the attacks, in which the Japanese national was fatally stabbed and two other people were wounded, were terror-related.”
-- Spencer writes:
They mean that they haven’t found that he was in contact with someone in Iraq or Syria, or has any ties that they can discover to jihadis anywhere. But that doesn’t mean this has nothing to do with jihad, and this false assumption stems from the further false assumption that jihad terror has nothing to do with Islam, and those who engage in it are only members of jihad terror groups, who themselves also have nothing to do with Islam. The Muslims who are misled into joining these groups are, this mistaken view goes, quite different from ordinary Muslims, who are peaceful and tolerant and have nothing to do with terrorism.
What's ironic here is that Spencer does essentially the same thing he is accusing the broader Western Mainstream of doing; he only does it to a lesser degree, and dressed up with affectations of no-nonsense "counter-jihad" articulations (even while he has insisted that he is "not 'anti-Islam' " and that only "elements of Islam" are problematic).
P.S.: As this companion blog (to my main blog, The Hesperado) is meant to be as pithy as an espresso shot, I often don't riddle my posts with added evidence and links; though just for you, my rare reader, I slide a saucer your way with this plump scone of relevant data about Spencer fresh out of the oven -- on the house.
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