Counter-Jihadists in Cars Getting Coffee

What would an actual Counter-Jihadists in Cars Getting Coffee production look like?  Let us imagine, say, David Wood, assuming the starring role of Jerry Seinfeld; and, of course, the show having the same slick high-end production value, with its glossy cinematography and expert editing. So in episode 1, we see David Wood getting into his 1989 Ford Taurus and while driving on the Santa Monica freeway calling Robert Spencer, they trade chit-chat on the phone for a minute --

"Hey, Bob! Are you primed to get some coffee today?"

"I'm ready, Dave, whenever you are!"

"Let's do this!"

David proceeds to the "undisclosed location" where Spencer's home is, pixelated out when David arrives there, "because jihadists and Leftists want to kill me" Spencer says with a cheeky grin to the camera before slipping into the passenger side of David's ride.

"Nice naugahyde!" says Robert, feeling the armrest.

"Check out the Mohammed bobblehead on the dash!" says David.

"Cool!"

They then head off to the Muslim-owned Urth Caffé to gab about the problem of "political Islam" and Leftists.  "I'll have a decaf mint mochaccino" David tells the moderately unhijabbed waitress, while Robert decides he needs a boost today, and orders a "radicalized extremist Salafist Wahabbist Islamist triple jihadaccino".

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I was reminded of this today when I was sipping my second cup of coffee on an expansive Sunday afternoon, punishing myself by browsing through the day's Jihad Watch headlines, and came upon this one:

UK: Police took part in Ramadan fast to “show unity” and “gain better understanding” of Muslims

What piqued my interest was Robert Spencer's commentary -- as usual, missing a key element in the phenomenon of the problem of the problem (the primary problem being Islam, the secondary problem of it being the West's continuing inability to grapple adequately with the primary problem):

The reason why British police do things like this is because of jihad terrorism. If there were no jihad terrorism, there would be no police “outreach” to Muslim communities. 

Yes, Robert is correct about this, but he's leaving out a crucial corollary factor: the ostensibly non-problematic behavior of the majority of Muslims who, for all intents and purposes, seem to just wanna have a sandwich.  When we restore this crucial corollary factor, and notice its chemical reaction, so to speak, with the equally important factor Robert pointed out, we see what drives the anxious need of the Western Mainstream to continue to placate Muslims and to whitewash their Islam: the fear that if we focus too directly on Islamic terrorism and respond too appropriately to it, we will end up "tarring all Muslims with the same brush".

Which brings us to a second crucial corollary factor: The mainstream Western phobia about "being racist".  One doubts that all this anxiety about "tarring all Muslims with the same brush" would be a factor at all, were Islam a white power organization.

When we analyze these anxieties and fears more closely, we see it is further warped by incoherency, insofar as the fear of becoming comprehensively bigoted against all Muslims is compounded by a fear of Muslims -- namely, there seems to be an underlying, semi-conscious fear that if we provoke Muslims too much (where "too much" is set at an irrationally low threshold of alarming hypersensitivity of Muslims to being "offended"), they will spiral violently out of control in ways far worse than we have seen in the West to date.

These two fears, paradoxical if not tending to be mutually contradictory, sort of feed on each other, but in a twisted way of psychological suppression, where Fear 2 (of Muslims spiraling out of control) paradoxically serves to increase the force of Fear 1 (of ourselves becoming "racist" against Muslims). Or I suppose it is a matter of Fear 1 being dominant and trying to suppress Fear 2, and the inability on the part of the Westerner to successfully suppress Fear 2 generates the psychological tension and anxiety.

"...Fear 1 being dominant and trying to suppress Fear 2, and the inability on the part of the Westerner to successfully suppress Fear 2 generates the psychological tension and anxiety."

And of course, the psychological tension and anxiety generates the need to assuage the tension and anxiety, and that expresses itself primarily by an ongoing project to drastically minimize the nature & dimensions of Fear 2.  This wouldn't be that bad, if Muslims weren't really that much of a systemic, metastasizing danger.  But since they are, they create this odd dynamic in the Western mainstream, of Fear and Denial.

Yes, by Jove, I think I've got it.  This is the fundamental PC MC mechanism in the PC MC espresso machine that daily churns out coffee so whitewashed, it's not, for the majority of un- (or dis-)informed customers, necessary to wake up and smell.