Better Cup (of Mo Jo...)

The Better Cup of Mo Jo is a deceptively caffeinated cup of decaf -- it actually tastes like the real coffee you're supposed to wake up and smell!

It harks back to my meme, the "Better Cop" Muslims -- who are better at fooling the West into thinking they're really moderate and "reformist".  So good are these Better Cop Muslims, they fool even the Counter-Jihad. In fact, that's their main purpose, and they will risk falling out of favor with the broader Western Mainstream just so they can appear daringly "reformist".

Well, we have a new Better Cop on the horizon: Dr. Majid Rafizadeh who, so Robert Spencer informs us,

...is a board member of Harvard International Review and president of the International American Council on the Middle East; he is also the author of the extraordinary book A God Who Hates Women: A woman’s journey through oppression and another, Peaceful Reformation in Iran’s Islam: A life story of struggle and poverty, which is just as shocking and important.  

The Jihad Watch story about Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a reproduction of a recent essay he wrote, published at the Gatestone Institute, a sorta kinda counter-jihadish organization. In his essay, Rafizadah complains about how he has been subtly pressured by Westerners, including Academe, to be less critical of Islam than he is.

As Spencer put it:

In this Gatestone Institute article, he substantiates what we have documented for years at Jihad Watch: that criticism of Islam is a career-killer in the West (“racist!” “bigot!” “Islamophobe!”) and that if critics of jihad terror and Sharia oppression distance their criticism from Islam itself, they have a much better chance of advancement in the political, media, and academic spheres.

To which I would add, Better Cops trying to infiltrate the Counter-Jihad also -- paradoxically -- have a much better chance of advancement in the Counter-Jihad when they distance their criticism from Islam itself  -- i.e., when they studiously evade the 6-million-dollar questions: How in hell can they continue to be Muslim if they are so reform-minded and oh so secular? And why in hell do they still revere the monstrously anti-liberal Koran, Allah, and Mohammed?  Most in the Counter-Jihad -- including Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney, David Horowitz, etc. etc. -- will respectfully avoid asking these supposedly "reformist" Muslims challenging questions like this. Meanwhile, their activity -- particularly under the blessing of the Counter-Jihad -- reinforces our anxiously gullible tendency -- even in the Counter-Jihad -- to suppress our rational prejudice against all Muslims.