"Barista-terrorista, there's an annoying raisin in my scone..."

Today's annoying raisin comes again from our old friend, the otherwise eminent warrior-of-ideas "in the Counter-Jihad", Frank Gaffney,

In this interview with Philip Haney -- a long-time counter-terrorism analyst at Homeland who quit Homeland (and was pressured out) because of his dismay at their "see-no-Islam" policy -- they discuss many interesting things, among them Haney's former career as an entomologist, and his application of that scientific knowledge, particularly about the behavior of ants, to Muslim terror networking.

Haney:  ...attention to detail, that’s another key component of counter-terrorism. That’s what we call connecting the dots. Well, it has direct application in science as well. You connect dots, you make observations, you write things down on your famous clipboard, and pretty soon a picture emerges. Then you do statistical analysis on it. Develop your premise and prove that it was true. Well, the other component is, being a specialist in ants, I simply began to follow the trail and I would find the nest. And in counter-terrorism, you do the same thing."

Gaffney:  So Phil, you migrated within the government from Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security at its founding in the case of the latter. I know that you wound up developing, in the course of that time, a considerable degree of familiarity with the patterns of behaviour of jihadists and the kind of trail that they would follow. Talk a little bit about the sort of patterns or what impels the behaviour of those Islamic supremacists, this doctrine they call shariah.

Haney: ...Some people have heard about ants, how they leave scent trails. And other insects do it, too, so they can follow each other around and not get lost. Well, that’s essentially what shariah is. That is the universe that Muslims live inside, it forms the boundaries of the world that they live in. And their attempt to implement shariah on a global basis, from their perspective, is an attempt to establish order in this chaotic, violent world that we live in. That’s why they always say that Islam is a religion of peace. Because for them, shariah equals peace. But the caveat to that statement that Islam is a religion of peace is just not right now.

And here's Gaffney's gaffe, his anxious need to interject double-virtue signalling:

Gaffney:  ...And Phil, let me just ask you, this scent trail, as you put it, this attempt to impose order, you mentioned that this is the environment in which Muslims live. I think it’s important to say right up front that that’s not necessarily so for all Muslims, is it?

Haney to his credit (as the reader will see who reads the interview from that point on) doesn't take the bait and pretty much ignores Gaffney's anxious spasm to defend Muslims; though it would have been nice if he had admonished Gaffney all the same.